Aviation

Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc will allow people who suffer from peanut and tree-nut allergies to board flights early so they can wipe down areas where they will sit to avoid potential exposure to allergens. The change will take effect December 12 when flight-service manuals are updated, American said in a filing with the US Transportation Department. Complaints over the ...

Bloomberg Icelandair Group Hf reached a surprise agreement to buy discount rival Wow Air, bringing together the island nation’s two financially embattled airlines. The carriers will continue to operate under separate brands while aiming to better compete on routes linking Europe with North America, they said. Shares of Icelandair surged on the deal, which will create a combined company with ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog is investigating Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. after the carrier last month disclosed the world’s biggest airline data breach that exposed personal information of 9.4 million customers. The compliance probe will examine security measures taken by Cathay Pacific to safeguard its customers’ private data and the airline’s information retention policy and practice, the city’s Privacy Commissioner ...

Bloomberg Swiss Air greeted the arrival of its latest plane with great fanfare, dubbing the Airbus SE A220 model the “Whisperjet” and promising neighbourhoods around Zurich Airport that it would be 50 percent quieter than older aircraft. But that tag has come back to haunt the Deutsche Lufthansa AG unit as the narrow-body’s twin engines emit what locals have described ...

Bloomberg The Lion Air plane that crashed last week had faulty airspeed readings during its last four flights, Indonesia said, asking Boeing Co. to take corrective measures on the aircraft to prevent similar accidents. Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee is collecting data related to the recovery efforts made during the prior malfunctions, the agency said in a statement on Monday, ...

Bloomberg South African Airways is working to find ways to roll over 9.2 billion rand ($642 million) of debt by March as the loss-making state-owned carrier works to make more routes profitable, Chief Executive Officer Vuyani Jarana said. While gross profit margins were negative on most routes when he started a year ago, domestic and regional routes are now making ...

Bloomberg Italy’s Alitalia SpA attracted bids from European discounter EasyJet Plc and US giant Delta Air Lines Inc., as the government renews attempts to sell the bankrupt flag-carrier. UK-based EasyJet said in a statement that it submitted a revised expression of interest in Alitalia, while Delta also presented a proposal. Italian state railway company Ferrovie dello Stato said it also ...

Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co. is giving up on charging for in-flight movies, bowing to feedback from passengers accustomed to not paying on rival carriers. Free flicks will be available on some Wi-Fi-enabled jets and will be rolled out to most customers by the end of the week, Southwest said in a statement. That makes the Dallas-based discounter the last of ...

Bloomberg Britain is urging the European Union to support a global carbon market for emissions from airlines, a move that would probably supersede the bloc’s own trading program. Aviation is too big of an industry to be covered piecemeal by regional pollution rules, according to Liz Sugg, the UK’s aviation minister. Flights within the union are covered by the EU’s ...

Bloomberg Indonesian divers found the main wreckage of the Lion Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea, a breakthrough in a week-long search for victims and the cockpit voice recorder that holds the key to unraveling the reason for the accident. Divers who have been scouring a 270-square-mile area since the jet crashed on October 29 spotted the Boeing ...