Aviation

Bloomberg Bombardier Inc. will likely fall short of the full-year delivery target for its cutting-edge C Series jet amid a shortage of available engines, analysts said. Delivery of 12 planes that had been scheduled for this year will probably slip into 2018, said Konark Gupta, a Macquarie Capital Markets analyst. That would mean Bombardier delivers 18 of the jets this ...

Bloomberg The next sales pitch for one of the world’s fastest-growing airlines may turn out to be: No runway? No problem! SpiceJet Ltd., an Indian budget carrier that’s seen its stock zoom 899 percent in three years, wants to open up the third-biggest aviation market even more. That means targeting the billion Indians who’ve never flown before, either because they ...

Bloomberg EasyJet Plc will take over leases for as many as 25 of Air Berlin Plc’s planes and gain access to a second airport in the city as the former No. 2 German airline is liquidated. EasyJet will pay 40 million euros ($46 million) for the Airbus SE A320 aircraft leases and takeoff and landing slots at Berlin Tegel Airport, ...

Bloomberg British Airways owner IAG SA struggled to raise ticket prices at the same pace as rivals as the airline group boosts long-haul budget options to counter tougher competition on its core US routes. Gains in passenger unit revenue, a measure of ticket pricing, slowed to 2.2 percent in the third quarter from a 4 percent jump in the three ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc’s effort to ease the shortage of pilots that contributed to months of flight cancellations may be bearing fruit, and could give the carrier leverage in a pay dispute with some existing employees. Europe’s biggest discount airline hired more than 200 pilots this month, according to a copy of a briefing document the carrier sent to employees. ...

Bloomberg The US and China agreed to recognise the other’s aircraft safety approvals, which may boost the Asian nation’s burgeoning aviation industry and make it easier for companies like Boeing Co. to sell products there. The US-China Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement was announced before President Donald Trump is set to travel to China. Trump will travel to China from November ...

Bloomberg American Airlines passengers have filed 29 complaints of racial discrimination in the last 20 months, the most of any airline flying in the US, according to data compiled by the US Department of Transportation. While air travellers are often unhappy, American’s treatment of African-American passengers has recently come under particular scrutiny. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...

Bloomberg The $2 billion that the US Air Force wants to spend this fiscal year for the new B-21 bomber would go towards added staffing for contractor Northrop Grumman Corp., software development and producing detailed engineering drawings, according to a top service official. While the items listed by Air Force Undersecretary Matt Donovan were predictable for early work on a ...

Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp.’s plan to add more seats to its Airbus SE A320 planes is running into an obstacle: broken toilets. The Space Flex lavatories supplied by Zodiac Aerospace are crucial to JetBlue’s plan to reconfigure its fleet of A320 jets. The airline will set a “formal review” in November with Airbus and Zodiac to evaluate repairs on the ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co. is investing in Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy, a self-guided drone startup, marking its first financial backing for a company specialising in autonomous technology since establishing the HorizonX venture fund in April. Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company, declined to specify the size of the investment. Near Earth Autonomy authorized the sale of about $10 million in equity, ...