Aviation

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc has revived plans to extend its network further east than ever before with flights from Ukraine, according to the European country’s premier. A deal formalising the expansion should be signed later this week, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman said in a statement on the government’s official website. Europe’s biggest discount airline had previously aimed to serve ...

Bloomberg US airlines tumbled after Southwest Airlines Co. cut its forecast for an industry revenue benchmark, citing stepped-up competition and a surprise drop in travel demand. The weaker outlook is spurring investor fears that United Continental Holdings Inc.’s expansion plan will rekindle fare wars that have plagued the industry off and on since 2015. When the supply of seats outstrips ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE is considering building a freighter version of its slow-selling A330neo wide-body, spurred by requests from potential customers Amazon.com Inc and United Parcel Service (UPS) Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. The interest from Amazon and UPS could rekindle a competition between Airbus and Boeing Co. as the global air-cargo market rebounds from a decade-long slump. ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings agreed to buy an Austrian airline from former Formula One motor-racing champion Niki Lauda, only the second acquisition in the Irish carrier’s history. The low-cost giant will pay Lauda less than $61.7 million for a majority stake in LaudaMotion, which retook control of carrier Niki just two months ago following the insolvency of Air Berlin. The aviation ...

Bloomberg Pratt & Whitney will provide spare engines within 40 days to get all grounded Airbus SE A320neo aircraft at India’s IndiGo flying again, with the first delivery scheduled for Wednesday, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. The engine maker communicated its plan on Tuesday to the jet’s biggest customer, the people said, asking not to be identified ...

Emirates Business Airbus and Heathrow airport are celebrating the 10th anniversary of A380 operations at the airport. They began on March 18, 2008 with the arrival of the first A380, a Singapore Airlines flight SQ308 from Singapore Changi airport making Heathrow one of the first to welcome Airbus’ iconic double decker. Heathrow is now the world’s busiest A380 airport by ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE’s deal to take a controlling stake in the Bombardier Inc. C Series jetliner programme could be finalised by the time of the Farnborough Air Show this summer, according to people familiar with the matter. Antitrust approval for the plan, which the planemakers had been seeking by the end of the year, is likely to come earlier than ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co.’s newest and smallest 737 Max jetliner took flight for the first time, into blue skies—and a cloudy, crowded market. The takeoff, on March 16 by Boeing’s factory outside Seattle, was characteristically drama-free for the third of four planned models in the Max family. The plane touched down at Boeing Field at 12:59 pm on March 16. Boeing’s ...

Bloomberg Emirates is set to raise $600 million from the sale of Islamic bonds as the world’s biggest airline by international passengers joins a rush of borrowers from the Gulf region. The Dubai government-owned carrier sold 10-year amortising sukuk at a profit rate of 4.5 percent, the company said in an emailed statement. The yield was cut from an initial ...

Bloomberg Bombardier Inc has hired Toronto-Dominion Bank to find a buyer for the Downsview aircraft-assembly plant in Toronto that could fetch more than C$500 million ($382 million), according to people familiar with the matter. Canada’s biggest aerospace company has received multiple bids, with residential developers in the mix, said the people who asked not to be identified because the matter ...