Aviation

  Bloomberg British anti-terror police are investigating after a package contaminated with traces of uranium was detected during routine checks at London’s Heathrow airport. A “very small amount” of contaminated material was identified during the scan of a package that arrived at the hub on December 29. Border Force officers then contacted the Counter Terrorism Command of the Metropolitan Police, ...

Bloomberg Britain’s attempt to send the first satellites into orbit from its own soil failed, dealing a blow to its bid to join the ranks of space nations and sending shares of Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit Holdings Inc. tumbling. A rocket launched from a Boeing 747 jumbo that took off from southwest England suffered a malfunction deep into the mission, ...

Bloomberg The operational chaos that engulfed Southwest Airlines Co. over the busy holiday period was a crisis decades in the making. In the aftermath of a meltdown that led to 16,700 flight cancellations and may cost the airline more than $800 million, blame has fallen on an outmoded crew scheduling system and an unusual point-to-point route network. Southwest was overwhelmed ...

  Abu Dhabi / Gulf Time Wizz Air, Europe’s fastest growing and most environmentally sustainable airline globally, reports that its average carbon emissions for 2022 amounted to 55.2 grams per passenger/km, 15.4% lower compared to the year of 2021, and the lowest ever recorded by the airline in one calendar year. Wizz Air operates the lowest carbon emissions per passenger/km ...

  Bloomberg The small group of nations to have sent rockets into the sky from their own soil is about to gain a new member as Britain makes its first ever launch from a seaside town better known for surfing and sandy beaches than space adventures. The mission will take off from Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay, southwest England, the first ...

Bloomberg Chinese people are traveling in larger numbers domestically as the nation’s key holiday season kicks off, a sign that the end of Covid Zero is giving way to a rebound in economic activity. Some 34.7 million trips within the country were made by air, road, rail or water, according to the Ministry of Transport. An additional 35.4 million trips ...

  Bloomberg A Jetstar Airways Pty plane carrying 136 passengers made an emergency landing in central Japan after receiving a bomb threat, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing police and airport personnel. Jetstar received a phone call at around 6:20 am Tokyo time from what appeared to be a man in Germany who said he had put a plastic bomb on ...

Bloomberg Countries from around the world are stepping up measures to shield their populations from the Covid-19 outbreak in China that comes as a more transmissible variant of the virus boosts infections globally. Portugal has joined the roster of European nations that will require a negative Covid-19 test for passengers from China, while Germany is discouraging all non-essential travel to ...

Bloomberg Europe’s biggest airline is resurrecting a dinosaur of the skies to tackle a dearth of premium seats on lucrative intercontinental routes. Deutsche Lufthansa AG will return five aging Airbus SE A340 jets in order to boost the availability of first-class seats as travel demand continues to rebound from the coronavirus crisis. The widebodies will be brought out of storage ...

  Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co will update its earnings guidance prior to reporting fourth-quarter results to reflect costs associated with an operations meltdown that forced it to cancel 15,700 flights over eight days. “We will be issuing some information before earnings,” Chief Executive Officer Bob Jordan said in an interview without providing specifics of the changes. “Obviously it’s a significant ...