Aviation

Bloomberg US airlines tumbled for a second day as more carriers announced plans to add seating capacity— compounding fears of a fare war that would crimp revenue as fuel costs climb. Alaska Air Group Inc. said it expects to increase capacity 7.5 percent this year, while JetBlue Airways Corp. projected as much as 8.5 percent. Economists predict gross domestic product ...

Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co. is pushing its supplier to fix customer service problems that emerged following a $500 million upgrade of its outdated reservations system. The carrier is leaning on Amadeus IT Group SA to resolve issues with its Altea programme that replaced Southwest’s 30-year-old, mostly home-grown technology. There have been at least five technical outages since August, with most ...

Bloomberg Welcome back to America, C Series. Bombardier Inc.’s marquee jet, slapped with crushing US tariffs in 2017, got a new lease on life when an American trade panel nixed the duties. The recent ruling, a surprise defeat for Boeing Co., enables Bombardier to jump-start sales campaigns in the world’s largest aircraft market. A revival of orders would help debt-laden ...

Bloomberg Malaysia Airlines Bhd.’s Airbus SE A380s are flying full on trial services taking Muslim pilgrims to Saudi Arabia, prompting the carrier to say it will establish the operation as a new division as early as the end of this year. The Asian company has been using two of its six A380s to transport people headed to Mecca for the ...

Bloomberg United Continental Holdings Inc.’s plan to grow its way to better profits led to another rocky encounter with Wall Street. At a presentation in New York, President Scott Kirby said an accelerated expansion would pay off in the long term by boosting market share at United’s major hubs in Chicago, Houston and Denver. He and Chief Executive Officer Oscar ...

Bloomberg China’s top three airlines saw their Hong Kong-listed shares surge last year, but there is still potential for more gains. China Southern Airlines Co., Air China Ltd. and China Eastern Airlines Corp. are trading at a discount to peers in the region and their valuations, by some metrics, are still off their peaks in the past five years. Analysts ...

BLoomberg AirAsia Bhd., the budget airline that has grown to become one of the biggest customers of Airbus SE planes, could consider buying more aircraft as economic expansion across India, China and the Southeast Asian nations propel travel demand across the continent. “Right now, we are short of aircraft,” Tony Fernandes, AirAsia group chief executive officer, said in an interview ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co.’s newest and largest 787 Dreamliner got the federal approval it needs to fly commercially, winning authorisation before the recent US government shutdown. The certification concludes a flight-test programme that began last March for the first of the 787-10 carbon-fibre jets to be assembled solely at Boeing’s South Carolina factory, the Chicago-based planemaker said. That clears one of two ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE has received “hundreds of millions of dollars” in pre-delivery payments from carriers under the Hainan Airlines Holding Co. umbrella and is sufficiently protected from any financial risks involving the customer, John Leahy, the European planemaker’s chief of sales, said. “We build airplanes so you’d have an industrial risk if they were to get into some serious financial ...

Bloomberg General Electric Co.’s A380 engine venture with Pratt & Whitney may be poised to muscle back in on the double-decker jet following Airbus SE’s deal to sell 36 superjumbos to Gulf carrier Emirates. While Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc is supplying Trent 900 turbines for the last 50 A380s ordered by Emirates, the Dubai airline is leaning towards a rival powerplant ...