Aviation

  Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd will more than double its flights to mainland China to 61 return services a week from January 14 following the easing of Covid travel restrictions. Cathay aims to operate over 100 return flights a week by March, it said in a statement. The airline currently operates 27 flights a week from Hong Kong to ...

  Bloomberg The airline industry’s global lobby group condemned national moves to introduce Covid tests and other measures for passengers arriving from China as travel from the Asia nation resumes despite a flareup in the virus. The measures represent a knee-jerk reinstatement of steps that have proven ineffective in stemming the pandemic over the past three years, the International Air ...

Bloomberg Air France-KLM is turning to a much-debated part of the ethical bond market to repay state aid that helped it weather the coronavirus pandemic. The airline is presenting its sustainability-linked financing framework to investors, and will then offer at least €300 million ($317 million) of sustainability-linked bonds, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to ...

  Bloomberg Kenya flag carrier’s shares will be suspended from trading for a further 12 months, extending the period the company’s stock is halted to more than three years as it struggles to return to profit. The suspension has been in place since July 2020 to allow the company complete its operational and corporate restructuring process, the Nairobi Securities Exchange ...

  Bloomberg The White House said there’s no reason Beijing should retaliate against the US and other nations that have imposed Covid restrictions on its travellers, saying the moves were justified on public health grounds as China experiences a surge in cases. “There’s no cause for retaliation here. Just because countries around the world are taking prudent health measures to ...

  Bloomberg Malaysia will tighten screening rules for all foreign arrivals, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said, amid concerns about the rampant Covid outbreak in China. “We are going to tighten screening but we won’t discriminate against any country,” he said at a post-cabinet briefing on Wednesday. The government will prioritise peoples’ health over the economy, he said. Malaysia joins several ...

  Bloomberg The Philippines’ main airport was expected to have flight delays on Tuesday as airlines reel from a technical glitch on New Year’s Day that stranded thousands of passengers and caused a backlog at the flag carrier that could take weeks to clear. Operations at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in the capital region are expected to fully normalise ...

  Bloomberg China said it would hit back at nations that placed Covid restrictions on its travellers for “political goals,” showing the coronavirus remains a politically sensitive subject in Beijing even as it lets the virus run rampant. “We believe that some countries’ entry restrictions targeting only China lack scientific basis and some excessive measures are unacceptable,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman ...

  Bloomberg Within months of a 2008 fatal plane crash that killed five, federal authorities revoked the license of the Oklahoma company that arranged the charter flight for allegedly doing so illegally. But Interstate Helicopters Inc won back its certificate to fly commercially early the next year and has kept it despite multiple subsequent violations of aviation regulations, a guilty ...

  Bloomberg Spain will require passengers arriving from China to provide a negative Covid test or a certificate proving full vaccination amid increasing concern about a renewed surge of the virus. The government in Madrid also wants a European Union crisis-response meeting at which the bloc should agree to demand evidence of full vaccination from Chinese arrivals, Health Minister Carolina ...