Aviation

Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp. has withdrawn its flights from a dozen online travel sites in the first phase of a broader effort to trim $20 million from its ticket-selling expenses. JetBlue is remaining with larger agencies including Priceline.com and Expedia Inc., along with Expedia’s Travelocity.com and Orbitz.com units. The airline favours sites like Kayak Software Corp.’s Kayak.com where consumers can ...

Bloomberg In the span of a one-hour conference call, Wall Street’s confidence in the leadership of United Airlines plummeted. Analysts pressed Chief Executive Officer Oscar Munoz and President Scott Kirby on how they planned to deal with rising costs and falling pricing power. Would they rein in growth in the face of fare weakness? Provide more detail on revenue initiatives? ...

Bloomberg Airports are the gateway through which we escape our daily drudgery. They allow us to wing our way to vacations, family reunions, even business junkets. But tainting every trip is the prospect of stress and frustration that comes with negotiating an infrastructure that envelops us from fare shopping to seat belt-click. There’s the ticketing counter, the kiosks, the bag ...

Bloomberg South African Airways Chairman Dudu Myeni will leave the state-owned airline in a shake up of the board scheduled for early next month, as the finance ministry puts new management in place to turn around the unprofitable carrier. Myeni, who is friends with South African President Jacob Zuma and heads his charitable foundation, is the most prominent of a ...

Bloomberg The deal that ceded control of Bombardier Inc.’s C Series jet programme to Airbus SE was the best option to save jobs in Quebec and ensure the industry’s future in the Canadian province, Economy Minister Dominique Anglade said. The entry of the European plane maker brings in a “selling firepower” that Bombardier doesn’t have, opening up markets for the ...

Bloomberg By relinquishing control of its C Series jets to longtime rival Airbus SE, Bombardier Inc. is scaling back its ambitions to build jetliners for the world’s airlines. The deal marks a step away from what had been touted as the crown jewel of Canada’s biggest aerospace company before it was tarnished by cost-overruns and trade disputes. With the future ...

Bloomberg Thai Airways International Pcl plans to return to the US market after a United Nations safety upgrade of Thailand’s aviation sector raised the odds of the Federal Aviation Administration following suit. The state-controlled carrier may add direct flights to America next year if the FAA promotes Thailand to its top safety category, said Krittaphon Chantalitanon, vice president of alliances ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE’s agreement to buy a majority stake in Bombardier Inc.’s C Series passenger jet programme not only injects critical financial support and expertise into the project, but also puts China’s aircraft-selling ambitions to the test. Potential buyers of the C Series aircraft have the comfort that Airbus, with its global presence, will provide support for the jet anywhere, ...

Bloomberg Alphabet Inc.’s Project Wing is taking the next step to deliver items to people’s homes via drone, beginning a demonstration project this week in Australia with a Mexican food chain and a pharmacy company. Small drones will begin delivering actual purchases to backyards in rural areas, James Ryan Burgess, co-lead of Project Wing, said in a blog post. Alphabet’s ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc’s efforts to calm disgruntled pilots were dealt a blow after crew at London Stansted Airport turned down a wage increase that was meant as a peace offering, people familiar with the matter said. At a meeting, the majority of flight crew at the budget carrier’s biggest base voted against a deal from Chief Executive Officer Michael ...