Aviation

Airbus stakes future of A380 jumbo on new order from Emirates

Bloomberg Airbus SE publicly questioned the future of the A380 for the first time, saying its flagship aircraft risks being shut down if the manufacturer fails to win a crucial order from the planemaker’s main backer, Emirates of Dubai. Emirates is the only airline with enough capacity to take enough planes to keep the programme alive, Airbus sales chief John ...

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Stranded Sukhoi jets haunt troubled airline

Bloomberg In cavernous jet hangars in and around Mexico City, Interjet has a secret. Four of the Mexican airline’s Sukhoi Superjet 100s—out of a fleet of 22—have been grounded for at least five months because of engine maintenance delays. The Russian-made aircraft, which average just four years old, are now being cannibalised, an industry term for when a plane is ...

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JetBlue delays fleet update as Boeing, Airbus eye small jets

Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp. has delayed a decision on updating its fleet of regional jets as it watches a brewing rivalry between Boeing Co. and Airbus SE to gain sway in the market for smaller planes. The carrier had hoped to decide by the end of 2017 whether to keep its 60 Embraer SA E190s. But an Airbus agreement to ...

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Heathrow Airport crams more flyers onto bigger jets

Bloomberg London’s Heathrow airport, which has operated its two runways close to capacity since the start of the decade, managed to squeeze in 2.3 million more passengers last year as airlines deployed bigger planes and carried more people per flight. The traveller tally at the home base of British Airways increased 3.1 percent to 78 million even as the number ...

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Jeju beats London, New York in busiest air route

Bloomberg The world’s busiest air route isn’t London to Paris or New York to Los Angeles, but the trip between Seoul and a tiny island off the coast of South Korea. Planes made 65,000 trips between the Korean capital and Jeju island—a journey of little more than an hour—in 2017, equivalent to 178 flights a day, according to data from ...

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China to finalise order for 184 A320 jets soon: Macron

Bloomberg China, poised to become the world’s biggest aircraft buyer, will finalize orders for 184 Airbus SE A320 family aircraft soon, French President Emmanuel Macron said after talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. The previously unannounced orders are mainly for the A320neo jets, with deliveries to 13 airlines scheduled in 2019 and 2020, an aide to Macron told reporters ...

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When you complain about these airlines on Twitter, they listen

Bloomberg As everyone learned when a passenger was forcibly removed from a United Express flight, social media and the ubiquity of mobile phone cameras have shifted the ground rules for airline customer service. The best and worst corporate interactions speed across the internet with potentially dire results for corporate targets of public anger. For air carriers in particular, “the world ...

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FedEx readies for e-commerce boom with new Shanghai hub

Bloomberg FedEx Corp. expects growing cross-border online transactions to be a driving force for its business in China as the company prepares to open one of its largest facilities in Shanghai. “Absolutely that’s an important part of it,” David Cunningham Jr., chief executive officer of FedEx Express, the world’s largest cargo airline, said in an interview in Shanghai. Cunningham said ...

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Acapulco airport operator sees first holiday slump in 8 years

Bloomberg A Christmastime dropoff at the resort city of Acapulco led Mexican airport operator Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte SAB to its first decline in passenger traffic for the month of December since 2009. OMA, as the company is known for short, reported a 0.2 percent decrease in total passenger traffic for December, including a 9.8 percent slump in Acapulco ...

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More JFK flights diverted as Port Authority pledges probe

Bloomberg Travellers from around the world faced more chaos after flooding at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport caused fresh flight delays and diversions amid operations already strained by a snowstorm and freezing temperatures. The meltdown, two days after the year’s first major snowstorm, left passengers to deal with long lines to rebook cancelled flights and to search through ...

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