Aviation

Bloomberg Aviation regulators plan to recall thousands of inspectors furloughed by the partial government shutdown so they can resume performing air-safety checks and routine activities including clearing planes for airlines to add to their fleets. The Department of Transportation issued a revised shutdown plan saying it will bring more than 3,100 aviation-safety specialists back onto the job as of January ...

Bloomberg Some airport security lanes in Atlanta, Washington and Houston were closed as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) continued to grapple with more absenteeism during the partial government shutdown. The TSA will begin relocating airport screening officers “on a national basis to meet staffing shortages that cannot be addressed locally,” the federal agency said in a tweet. The TSA will ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG will cancel at least 414 flights due to a strike on Tuesday by security staff at eight German airports, including the airline’s hubs in Frankfurt and Munich. The cancellations include 386 flights within Europe and 28 intercontinental services, Lufthansa said. Airport-security workers in Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Hanover, Bremen, Dresden, Leipzig/Halle and Erfurt plan to walk out ...

Bloomberg Washington DC could get another four inches (10 centimetres) of snow from a storm that’s already caused hundreds of flight cancellations and several deaths as it cuts a wide swath across the US from St. Louis to the mid-Atlantic. Washington’s Reagan National Airport had recorded 5.4 inches of snow, AccuWeather reported. The nation’s capital hadn’t received more than 4.1 ...

Bloomberg Indonesia found the cockpit voice recorder from the Lion Air plane that crashed in October, giving investigators a real chance at solving the mystery of what brought down a modern jet. The CVR of the Boeing Co 737 Max aircraft was intact when it was recovered in the Java Sea, according to said Agung Nugroho, a spokesman for Indonesian ...

Bloomberg The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) plans to begin closing a handful of security checkpoints at airports around the US as soon as this weekend in response to staff shortages as impacts of the three-week partial federal government shutdown begin to expand. Miami International Airport has shut one of its concourses for several days and has moved flights to other ...

Bloomberg Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways, after repeated delays, will start commercial flights on January 16, the company said in an emailed statement. The carrier set minimum ticket prices at 149,000 dong ($6.40) each. The carrier will initially operate 37 domestic routes, the company said in a separate statement. Bamboo Airways will also start this year international flights to Asian countries, starting ...

Bloomberg Less than two weeks after saying it had a ticketing error that gave away premium seats at huge discounts, Cathay Pacific has done it again. This time, some visitors to their booking site got lucky on flights from Europe to Hong Kong. The South China Morning Post reported that the carrier offered first-class seats from Portugal to Hong Kong ...

Bloomberg Sun Country Airlines Inc will begin service from San Francisco to Hawaii on May 18 for the peak summer season, bulking up its service to the island state just as Southwest Airlines Co plans to jump into the market. Fares to Honolulu will start at $259 each way. The average one-way fare on the route is $339 during the ...

Bloomberg Indonesian airlines reduced air fares for some local routes by as much as 60 percent starting last week in response to a backlash over a surge in ticket prices during the peak holiday season. PT Garuda Indonesia, Lion Air and PT AirAsia Indonesia are among the carriers which already cut prices from January 11, the Indonesian National Air Carrier ...