Aviation

Bloomberg US aviation safety regulators intend to require passenger and cargo aircraft to meet requirements by early next year for navigation gear to deal with potentially unsafe interference from 5G mobile-phone signals. The equipment is needed because the newer wireless signals are on frequencies near those used by planes’ radio altimeters, which determine altitude over ground and can cause them ...

  Bloomberg The failure of a key pilot notification system operated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) disrupted air travel in the US early on Wednesday morning, with United Airlines Holdings Inc. temporarily grounding flights to all destinations. Scores of passengers due to fly domestically reported delays on social media, and there was no estimate available for the restoration of ...

Bloomberg As Covid-19 pandemic restrictions are eased and airlines rebuild flight capacity, the performance of the world’s carriers is again falling under the scrutiny of analysts and passengers alike. So which airlines are whizzing people around the world on time? And which are the laggards of the skies? The most punctual global airline of 2022 was Garuda Indonesia, according to ...

  Bloomberg Boeing Co closed 2022 with its best month of deliveries in four years, buoying the planemaker’s cash and signalling that its recovery is gaining momentum. The company said that it handed over 69 jets in December — including 54 from its cash-cow 737 family — and recorded 250 gross orders. The performance gave Boeing 387 deliveries of the ...

  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 ...