Aviation

Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc. and its pilots union reached an agreement that will allow the carrier to avoid cancelling flights during the holiday travel season after it allowed too many aviators to take vacation by mistake. The carrier and the Allied Pilots Association didn’t immediately disclose details of their pact but said it should ensure that American, the world’s ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE appointed Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc’s Eric Schulz as sales chief, plucking a top executive from one of its most important partners to replace John Leahy, who racked up more than $1.7 trillion dollars in jetliner deals over 23 years. Schulz, 54, the head of civil aerospace at the UK engine maker, will join Airbus as an executive vice ...

Bloomberg British Airways owner IAG SA chose Paris as a second base for its discount airline Level, which will offer transatlantic flights to destinations like New York and the Caribbean as carriers compete to lower prices on longer routes. CEO Willie Walsh unveiled the plan in the French capital, which won out over Rome for the designation. Level plans to ...

Bloomberg EasyJet Plc, Britain’s biggest discount airline, has revealed that men at the company earn on average 51.7 percent more than women, one of the highest gender pay gaps reported so far in the UK as part of government transparency requirements. Under the new rules, businesses with more than 250 employees have to report the extent of the pay gap ...

Bloomberg The airport in Bali will remain closed for a second day as a volcano on the Indonesian island continued to rumble, prompting more flight cancellations while authorities scrambled to assist stranded passengers. The Ngurah Rai International Airport at the popular Asian tourist spot will be shut until 7 am on Wednesday, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for Indonesia’s National ...

Bloomberg Indonesian authorities evacuated some 100,000 people in the island of Bali and shut its airport after Mount Agung volcano erupted, prompting airlines to cancel about 445 flights linking one of the most popular tourist destinations in Asia. Relocation from around Mount Agung’s crater began as volcanologists warned of a “very high likelihood” for a larger eruption, the National Disaster ...

Bloomberg Rising incomes and cheaper fares offered by budget carriers are fueling air travel in India, an aviation market set to be the third biggest behind China and the US. In signs traffic is surging, Mumbai on November 24 handled 969 flights in a 24-hour period, a world record for an airport that operates only one runway at any given ...

Bloomberg As monuments to Britain’s past glories go, it’s hard to beat the Royal Air Force Club. Housed in a handsome stone building in London’s tony Mayfair district, the facility for current and former RAF personnel is stuffed with oil paintings of great moments in British aviation, busts of accomplished pilots and historic treasures like the first flight-test report for ...

Bloomberg Spain will have a backup plan in place to shield its tourism industry from any disruption to air travel caused by Brexit regardless of the outcome of talks between the UK and the European Union, Deputy Minister for European Affairs Jorge Toledo said. Airlines tend to make their flight plans one year advance, so Spain still has about four ...

Bloomberg Travellers flying long-haul from Britain in private planes and the premium cabins of jetliners will foot the bill for freezing departure taxes in coach, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said. The UK Treasury will increase so-called air passenger duty for business- and first-class passengers by 16 pounds ($21) to 172 pounds, while lifting the fee for private journeys ...