Aviation

Bloomberg Indonesia’s national rescue agency ended a search for victims of the Lion Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea about two weeks ago, while those trying to locate the cockpit voice recorder face a new challenge as an electronic signal from the device fades. The task of finding victims or their remains has been left to local teams, ...

Bloomberg The Horizon Air worker who stole an airplane from Seattle’s airport and took it for a ride crashed intentionally to commit suicide, the FBI said in a report that concluded he had no apparent ties to terrorism. Ground service agent Richard Russell, 28, acted alone and no charges are planned in the August incident, the agency said. Investigators found ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE’s latest monthly order tally signalled a big change for India’s IndiGo. The planemaker’s biggest customer for the A320neo is upgrading 125 of its existing orders for the narrowbody’s bigger sister model. IndiGo, one of the few Indian carriers with enough cash to aggressively expand, has been mapping out a way to build a long-haul, low-cost business taking ...

Bloomberg Venezuelan airline Aerolineas Estelar Latinoamerica CA will begin to offer a direct flight from Caracas to New York more than two years after the route disappeared from its itineraries. Isolated Venezuelans have few options when flying. Carriers such as Delta Air Lines Inc., Latam Airlines SA and Avianca Holdings SA have scrapped flights to Caracas for security reasons as ...

Bloomberg A little-known company on Canada’s west coast will become king of the turboprops and owner of some of the most storied brands in the country’s aviation history after striking a deal with Bombardier Inc. Closely held Longview Aviation Capital Corp. is poised to become North America’s largest maker of turboprop aircraft with its $300 million purchase of Bombardier’s Dash ...

Bloomberg Days after Lion Air lost a plane in Indonesia’s worst air disaster in two decades, the carrier has found itself in the midst of another incident. A Boeing 737-900ER operated by PT Lion Mentari Airlines clipped a pole while taxiing at Bengkulu airport in southern Sumatra, shearing the tip of its left wing, the carrier said in a statement. ...

Bloomberg Kenya Airways Plc. has ceased issuing tickets for flights to Burundi after the state demanded the airline’s wholly owned budget carrier fly bigger jets. While Jambojet Ltd. received authorisation to operate between the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and Bujumbura, Burundi’s main city, the Ministry of Transport, Public Works, Equipment and Land Use Planning failed to give requisite approvals because of ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co is advising airlines on procedures to deal with false readings from a plane sensor that authorities say malfunctioned on a 737 Max jet that crashed off the Indonesian coast over a week ago. An operations-manual bulletin was issued, Boeing said in a statement posted to Twitter, and tells crew to use existing guidelines when dealing with erroneous ...

Bloomberg United Continental Holdings Inc. will remove a flight attendant on most of its long-distance international routes, in a bid to keep costs in line with those of its US rivals. The change will take effect February 1, affecting flights on United’s Boeing Co. 787 and some models of 767 and 777 jetliners, according to a memo from John Slater, ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Etihad Aviation Training (EAT) and Alpha Aviation Academy, the largest Multi Pilot training programme in Mena, have launched a partnership for the delivery of the Core Flying Skills components of Alpha’s pilot training programme. EAT is a well-established Approved Training Organisation (ATO) with one of the largest training facilities in the Middle East region. Student ...