Aviation

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc risks reviving its image for predatory customer service with a move to scrap hundreds of flights through the end of October because of poor planning. The shares fell nearly 5 percent. Europe’s biggest discount airline, which had previously treated its customers like a captive audience for hard-selling an array of products and services on board, has ...

Bloomberg Qatar is set to buy 24 Eurofighter Typhoon jets after Defense Minister Khalid bin Mohamed Al-Attiyah signed a statement of intent with UK counterpart Michael Fallon, providing the Persian Gulf state with outside military support after it became a regional outcast. The deal, reached on Sunday in the Qatari capital of Doha, marks the first major defense contract between ...

Bloomberg Like so many companies in America, Boeing Co. has largely neglected the gaping deficit in its employee pension as it doled out lavish rewards to shareholders. What’s raising eyebrows is how it plans to shore up the retirement plan. Last month, Boeing made its largest pension contribution in over a decade. But rather than put up cash and lock ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc scrapped 82 flights on Sunday, the start of a six-week programme of cancellations it’s making as it seeks to reduce a backlog of crew vacation required by Irish regulators before the end of the year. “We have messed up in the planning of pilot holidays and we’re working hard to fix that,” Kenny Jacobs, Ryanair’s chief ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE’s newest wide-body jet lost more orders as Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. switched a contract for six A350-1000s to the smaller -900 variant and deferred delivery of five more by a year. The model switch, announced by Asia’s biggest international carrier, follows a decision last week at United Airlines to swap on order for 35 A350-1000s to 45 ...

Bloomberg A Colombian pilots union voted in favour of a strike at Avianca Holdings SA, which the company argues is illegal. The ACDAC union says that its members include about 700 pilots that work for the company and won’t fly during the strike—slightly more than half of Avianca’s pilots. Avianca said Colombian laws forbid those offering essential services from striking, ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc is cancelling as many as 50 flights a day for the next six weeks as it moves to reduce a backlog of crew vacation before as required by Irish regulators. The Dublin-based carrier will offer refunds or alternative flights to the “small number” of affected passengers over the period, it said in a statement, adding that ...

Bloomberg Qantas Airways Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce’s compensation almost doubled in the latest financial year after he helped revive the faltering Australian carrier. The total package for Asia Pacific’s best-paid airline executive surged to $19.7 million in the 12 months through June 30, from about A$13 million a year earlier, according to the company’s annual report released Friday. ...

Bloomberg Malaysia Airlines Bhd. agreed to buy Boeing Co.’s 787-9 Dreamliners and 737 Max jets as the Southeast Asian nation’s flag carrier looks to boost services on its busiest routes. The airline signed a memorandum of understanding for eight of the carbon-composite Dreamliners, and eight 737 Max 8s, Boeing said in an e-mailed statement. The planes are worth $3.06 billion ...

Bloomberg EasyJet Plc struck a deal with Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA and Canada’s WestJet Ltd allowing its passengers to transfer onto their long-haul flights at London Gatwick airport. Europe’s second-biggest discount airline is exploring similar accords with Middle Eastern and East Asian carriers, and plans to extend the service to some of its other major bases, according to a statement. ...