Aviation

Bloomberg Alitalia SpA, the bankrupt Italian airline searching for a rescuer, will get new uniforms designed by one of Italy’s most prominent stylists, the second re-branding in two years. The airline, which is on state support, said that Alberta Ferretti will renew the company’s look “to ensure that all personnel, both ground and flight staff, is comfortable in each working ...

Bloomberg Air France-KLM Group and Jet Airways India Ltd. agreed to deepen an existing partnership with offerings on India- Europe routes together, giving the biggest European airline more seamless access to the world’s fastest growing major aviation market. The latest deal will offer travel options for 44 cities in India and 106 destinations across Europe, Jean-Marc Janaillac, chairman of Air ...

Bloomberg Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA’s Argentine unit is planning direct flights from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles, New York and Istanbul as part of a $4.3 billion expansion in the South American country over the next 10 years. The discount airline is also eyeing service to such cities as Dallas, Honolulu and Johannesburg, said Ole Christian Melhus, head of Norwegian’s ...

Bloomberg India plans to exclude more than half of the $7.6 billion debt owed by the struggling national airline to help burnish its appeal as PM Narendra Modi presses ahead with a sale, people with knowledge of the matter said. The government proposes to transfer all of Air India Ltd.’s non-aviation assets and short-term loans of as much as $4.7 ...

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 ...