Aviation

Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. cancelled more than 400 flights over the next three days and warned of “serious disruptions” for air travellers as Super Typhoon Mangkhut approaches Hong Kong. Other airlines across the region halted flights on Saturday as Mangkhut slammed into the Philippines and was set to disrupt travel from Hong Kong to Japan. Cathay Pacific said earlier ...

Bloomberg As Hurricane Florence batters the southeastern US, a small army of drones is being assembled to quickly help identify and even fix damage caused by the storm. At least 53 drone teams have been recruited to help with damage assessment, said Brian Reil, a spokesman for Edison Electric Institute, the Washington-based industry group coordinating utility recovery efforts. Each team ...

Bloomberg Poland is banking on booming passenger and cargo traffic to help turn its planned transportation hub into a key European gateway to Asia and is open to looking for partners in the far East to help finance it. The European Union’s largest eastern economy plans to plow as much as $9.4 billion by 2027 into building a 45-million passenger ...

Bloomberg Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc fell the most in more than a year after the in-flight shutdown of one of its engines on an Airbus SE A350 jet raised concerns that the model may be the latest afflicted by a design defect. The captain of the Iberia flight from New York to Madrid made an emergency landing in Boston 1 1/2 ...

Bloomberg The only budget flights between London and Singapore will end in January when Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA scraps the long-haul route little more than a year after it started. The last flight to London will leave Singapore on January 11, according to Norwegian’s customer booking line. The airline’s website shows no flights on the route beyond that month. The ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co. painted an optimistic forecast for China, an aviation market soon poised to become the world’s biggest. The planemaker also needs to overcome a tit-for-tat trade war that President Donald Trump is ratcheting up. The country will need 7,690 new planes worth $1.2 trillion over the next two decades, the Chicago-based planemaker said in Beijing. That’s a 6 ...

Bloomberg Italy’s aerospace giant Leonardo SpA says ATR, which it co-owns with France’s Airbus SE, is in talks with alternative buyers for the remaining aircraft in a $1.6 billion deal with Iran, which it can no longer deliver due to sanctions. “We are pretty confident that we will finalise the re-allocation to other countries” by the end of this year, ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc pilots and flight attendants in Germany will walk out on Wednesday, meaning many of its services in and out of the country may not operate. The latest strike will follow the scrapping by Europe’s biggest discount carrier of more than 400 flights on August 10 amid walkouts in five nations including Germany, though since then it ...

Bloomberg The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is so pleased with a program to test three-dimension X-ray technology for carry-on bag screening at airports that it’s increasing plans to buy the new technology starting next year, the agency chief told Congress. TSA is testing computed tomography X-rays, which shoot hundreds of images of a bag from different angles, at 13 airports ...

Bloomberg British Airways may become the first high-profile company to run afoul of Europe’s far-reaching data privacy rules — and face potentially hefty fines — after a computer hack compromised credit card data from some 380,000 customers. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, which took effect in May, mandates that companies have to take technical precautions such ...