Aviation

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc’s passenger growth advanced at the slowest rate since 2014 in 2017 after it canceled thousands of flights to cope with a staffing crunch, sparking outrage among consumers and regulators. The 2017 customer tally was 129 million, or 2 million less than initially forecast, according to a statement from Ryanair on Wednesday, with December’s performance the worst ...

Bloomberg Two US airlines—American and Southwest—joined the tide of companies offering employees $1,000 bonuses to mark the tax overhaul Congress put in place for 2018. American Airlines Group Inc. and Southwest Airlines Co. announced the bonuses after the close of business. AAON, US Bancorp, Commerce Bancshares Inc. and Zions Bancorporation were among the companies touting similar moves. Banks, insurers and ...

Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp. has little to show for its efforts to improve on-time performance. In the year gone by, through October, the airline’s on-time arrival rate of 70 percent trails the industry average of 79 percent, according to the US Transportation Department. That puts the carrier on track for its worst showing since 2007. Flight delays threaten two of ...

Bloomberg EasyJet Plc Chief Executive Officer Johan Lundgren laid out plans to serve 13 percent more passengers, widen links with other airlines and help pioneer testing of a hybrid-power plane in his first year of leading the discount carrier. Lundgren, who succeeded Carolyn McCall as CEO on December 1, 2017, said EasyJet will carry about 90 million travellers in 2018, ...

Bloomberg US airlines are wagering that American tourists will keep flocking to Cancun despite rising violence in Mexico and a warning from the State Department. Southwest Airlines Co., Spirit Airlines Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. are adding flights to the resort. United Continental Holdings Inc. is using one of its biggest jets once a week to ply the Chicago-Cancun ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE completed the year gone by doing what it does best: selling its bread-and-butter narrow-body aircraft. The European manufacturer firmed up its biggest-ever order from Indigo Partners for 430 A320 aircraft—a contract that was previously announced— while also unveiling a new deal for 50 re-engined versions of the same jet. All told, the flurry of activity during the ...

Bloomberg Grupo Aeromexico SAB is considering an order of Bombardier Inc. C Series jets, taking aircraft that would be available next year if US tariffs thwart deliveries to Delta Air Lines Inc., people familiar with the matter said. Mexico’s largest carrier is also considering short-range planes from Brazil’s Embraer SA and Japan’s Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. instead, said the people, who ...

Bloomberg A lot can happen in a year—but 2017 was particularly eventful when it came to how we travel the world. The threats that loomed largest in 2016, Zika and the migrant crisis, faded into the rear-view mirror as talk of a United States travel ban and Brexit suddenly dominated global headlines. And that was just the beginning. Here are ...

Bloomberg Thailand, land of golden temples, white-sand beaches, smiling hosts. Or of overcrowded airports, epic traffic jams and littered seashores. Facing a deluge of Chinese tourists that has strained its airports beyond capacity, the Southeast Asian nation is spending billions to upgrade its infrastructure, open up new islands and cities to travellers, and tone down its image of cheap shopping ...

Bloomberg France is wavering on a plan to sell part of a $9 billion stake in Paris’ two main airports to avoid hurting Air France-KLM, the airline in which the government also has a significant investment, according to an official with knowledge of the matter. President Emmanuel Macron’s government has sought to divest shareholdings, which include Charles de Gaulle and ...