Aviation

Bloomberg Pity the airlines: fuel prices are soaring, pilots are in short supply and political spats threaten global trade. And worse may be to come. With global passenger numbers forecast to almost double to 7.8 billion by 2036, runways, airports and even airspace could rapidly become too crowded to cope. In Asia, which will contribute more than half of the ...

Bloomberg Emirates aircraft are synonymous with luxury, offering premium-class passengers shower on board while cruising at 30,000 feet. Now the carrier wants to give some legroom for those flying coach. The world’s biggest long-haul airline outlined details of a new premium economy seat that it plans to help stem “leakage” of passengers who can’t afford business, but want a more ...

Bloomberg South African Airways is offering surplus pilots and cabin crew to major global carriers as part of a bid to cut costs and secure alliances in its three-year turnaround plan. SAA, as the unprofitable state-owned company is known, needs fewer staff of its own as it scraps under-performing routes, and views the experienced personnel as a path to discussions ...

Bloomberg With more than 100 languages and the ambition to connect even its smallest villages by air, India has become a testing ground for a new software being developed by Honeywell International Inc. that aims to make it easier to understand pilots speaking English with strong local accents. The conglomerate is, at the behest of the government, developing software that ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co. is deepening its intrusion on suppliers’ turf by teaming up with France’s Safran SA to design and build auxiliary power units, the compact turbines tucked below a jetliner’s tail that are used to start its main engines and provide power on the ground. The 50-50 partnership will be based in the US, the companies said in a ...

Bloomberg Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says companies should be able to operate free from pressure from foreign governments after Qantas Airways Ltd. bowed to demands that it refer to Taiwan as being part of mainland China. Australia’s flagship carrier is one of 44 airlines asked by the Civil Aviation Administration of China to modify how they refer to Taiwan ...

Bloomberg Air China is to resume regular flights between Beijing and Pyongyang after a six-month hiatus, in the latest sign that the “ maximum pressure” campaign on North Korea may be easing. China’s flagship carrier will resume services on Wednesday after halting them in November, a spokesman for the company confirmed in a WeChat message. The resumption is a market-oriented ...

Bloomberg Two of Airbus SE’s flagship A380 superjumbos are headed for the scrapheap after a search for new operators failed to secure firm bids. Negotiations with British Airways, Iran Air and Hi Fly, a Portuguese charter specialist, ended with no deals struck, German investment fund Dr. Peters, which manages the planes, said in a statement to shareholders. The double-decker jets, ...

Bloomberg China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings Ltd. is in talks with Airbus SE and Boeing Co. to order as many as 200 planes as the state-backed lessor seeks to meet surging demand from Asian carriers. The company is looking at single-aisle and wide-body jets from the planemakers, with the bigger aircraft slated to account for 20 percent of the order, ...

Bloomberg Qantas Airways Ltd. will place an order for ultra long-range planes from Airbus SE or Boeing Co. next year, starting the clock for the two manufacturers to win over the airline. The planes, which must be able to fly from Sydney to London or New York without a break with a full payload, will be delivered in 2022, Chief ...