Aviation

Bloomberg Kenya Airways Plc revived long-shelved plans to expand its network by proposing to buy as many as 10 Boeing Co. 737 Max aircraft as part of a five-year strategy. The move follows three consecutive years of losses caused by a poorly executed expansion strategy and fuel-hedging contracts that saw it miss out on rock-bottom oil prices. The losses forced ...

Bloomberg Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise will reintroduce flights to Eritrea by mid-September, two decades after a border conflict upended relations between the Horn of Africa neighbours. “Ethiopian Airlines get ready because soon you’ll start going to Eritrea and coming back,” PM Abiy Ahmed said in Addis Ababa. “Let us not transfer to our children hatred and the holding of grudges.” Ethiopian ...

Bloomberg Fuel prices are up, the US dollar is rallying and that means stormy skies for Brazilian airlines. Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA is leading Brazil’s Ibovespa index losses month-to-date, with a 21 percent drop so far. The company is also heading for its biggest quarterly drop since its initial public offering in 2004. Gol and Azul SA are down ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s Bali airport resumed services after a halt caused by a fresh eruption at the Mount Agung that sent volcanic ashes several miles high into the sky above the popular tourist island. The airport opened at 2.30 pm local time on June 29, according to its twitter feed. The shutdown, the second in seven months, led to cancellation of ...

Bloomberg China Southern Airlines Co. will invest 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) in Xiongan, the new city spearheaded by Chinese president Xi Jinping that aspires to be a model for China’s future urban development. The airline operator will allocate 2.5 billion yuan in cash and 7.5 billion yuan in tangible assets to set up a subsidiary called China Southern Airline ...

Bloomberg Buckle up. The Friday before July 4 may approach a record for the busiest day ever for US airports, the head of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said. Traffic for the day could top 2.6 million passengers, making it “potentially one of the busiest in TSA history,” TSA administrator David Pekoske said. TSA says nine of the top 15 days ...

Bloomberg London Heathrow’s controversial third runway fits within Britain’s plan for reining in fossil-fuel emissions, according to the government’s Committee on Climate Change. “Another runway at Heathrow could be accommodated within those parameters,” said John Gummer, chairman of the committee. Modern technology “ought to give elbow room for about a 60 percent growth in demand,” he said at a briefing ...

Bloomberg London Heathrow airport’s 16 billion-pound ($21 billion) expansion plan may have cleared its last major political hurdle, but the project has yet to convince British Airways, the hub’s biggest customer. After UK lawmakers backed the construction of a third runway by 415 votes to 119, BA owner IAG SA responded by saying that the financing arrangements proposed by Heathrow ...

Bloomberg Chinese airlines ordered more than $100 billion of planes from Airbus SE and Boeing Co. in the past decade. Paying those bills is getting harder with the prospect of a trade war pushing the local currency to its lowest level in six months. A weaker yuan means Air China Ltd., China Southern Airlines Co. and China Eastern Airlines Corp. ...

Bloomberg Air Tanzania Co. Ltd. will fly to Mumbai three times a week starting in September, it’s first flight outside the continent, after taking delivery of a Boeing 787-800 Dreamliner next month, the Dar es Salaam-based Daily News newspaper reported, citing Commercial and Business Development Director Patrick Ndekana. Tanzania is revamping its erstwhile struggling national carrier after investing in new ...