Aviation

Bloomberg The Dutch arm of Air France-KLM Group is seeking a change in the beleaguered carrier’s management structure in a bid to gain more influence after a protracted French labor conflict led the company’s chief executive officer to resign, according to a person familiar with the matter. KLM is growing increasingly frustrated with mounting losses from strikes at the Air ...

Bloomberg PT Garuda Indonesia, the country’s flag carrier, has cancelled 14 flights to Yogyakarta after a volcano about 19 miles north of the city erupted and forced authorities to close the local airport. The airfield, 520 kilometres southeast of Jakarta on the island of Java, was closed at about 10:42 am on May 11 local time, and reopened at 2:17 ...

Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp. has reached an initial agreement with its pilots union, marking the first such accord in the carrier’s history. The deal, announced by the Air Line Pilots Association and confirmed by JetBlue, will be reviewed by union leaders, who will make adjustments to the final contract language and decide whether to send it to members for a ...

Bloomberg Step aboard an ultra-low-cost airline such has Ryanair or Frontier and the amenities can be jarringly Spartan. To keep costs low, free snacks don’t exist and in-flight entertainment is the seatback safety card. How do you distract passengers from this painful minimalism? Well Wi-Fi, of course, a lesson learned by a small but growing group of no-frills carriers. For ...

Bloomberg The US withdrawal from a nuclear accord with Iran slams shut what had been a brief opening for historic aircraft sales by Boeing Co. and Airbus SE to the Islamic Republic. President Donald Trump’s announcement that the US would seek to reimpose sanctions left little hope that the planemaking duopolists will be able to consummate $40 billion in aircraft ...

Bloomberg WestJet Airlines Ltd. dropped the most in more than two and a half years after it said increased spending to create a new low-cost unit and expand overseas will vastly exceed revenue growth. Costs for each seat flown a mile, excluding fuel and employee profit sharing, will climb as much as 8.5 percent this quarter, Canada’s second-biggest carrier said. ...

Bloomberg British Airways parent IAG SA’s approach for Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA was opportunistically pitched to coincide with the discount carrier’s weakest period for earnings, according to Bjorn Kiese, its chairman. “It wasn’t a coincidence that this came at this time,” Kiese said at Norwegian’s annual shareholder meeting. “April, May is the weakest part of the cycle, also for the ...

Bloomberg Japan Airlines Co. is examining setting up a new low-fare carrier to increase capacity and take on rising competition from budget operators in Asia’s second-largest economy. Starting a discount airline is part of the carrier’s need to widen its product line-up, Vice Chairman Junko Okawa, 63, said in an interview in Singapore. It is one of several options the ...

Bloomberg French Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne said concern is mounting about Air France-KLM Group’s French arm as a protracted labor dispute over wages hurts the airline’s competitiveness and ability to buy new planes. “I’m worried about the future of Air France,” Borne said. The carrier “is less competitive than its partner KLM and other European airlines.” The government has waded ...

Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co. intends to offer island-hopping flights within Hawaii after it ramps up service to the state from California, boosting the competitive threat to Hawaiian Airlines. Inter-island flights will “eventually” be added to complement new service from the US mainland, Southwest said in a statement. The carrier named San Jose, San Diego, Sacramento and Oakland as the first ...