Aviation

Bloomberg Drones will have to be registered and their users required to pass safety tests under new rules to be announced by the UK’s Department for Transport. Registration will be mandated for owners of drones 250 grams (8.8 ounces) or larger after research found that drones as small as 400 grams (14 ounces) could damage the windscreens of helicopters. Other ...

Bloomberg UK Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said there’s no chance that planes will be grounded when Britain leaves the European Union in 2019 and that any transitional arrangements on border controls are likely to be contingent on maintaining maximum access for airlines. The notion that jets could be forced to stop flying once Brexit is implemented shouldn’t be taken seriously, ...

Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp. is looking for investors and developers to help build a new Terminal 6 at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, with possible expansion to include a second facility. JetBlue holds exclusive rights to develop the site of JFK’s previous Terminal 6, which was torn down. The project also may involve the replacement of Terminal 7, ...

Bloomberg Wizz Air Holdings Plc, Eastern Europe’s biggest discount airline, plans to stop charging customers for carry-on luggage, bringing it into line with rivals Ryanair Holdings Plc and EasyJet Plc as low fuel prices boost earnings. While Wizz had allowed customers to bring aboard small items and laptop bags for free, it imposed a fee of between 10 and 35 ...

Bloomberg United Airlines projected a slowdown in a benchmark financial gauge as trans-Pacific fares weaken, and the carrier delayed delivery of four Airbus SE long-haul jets earmarked for those routes. Passenger revenue for each seat flown a mile could rise as much as 1 percent or fall by the same magnitude this quarter, United said in a statement as it ...

Geneva / Emirates Business The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Airlines for America (A4A), have launched a year-long global campaign related to baggage tracking with the goal of reducing mishandled bags in addition to increasing efficiency in baggage operations. Annually, more than 4 billion bags are carried by airlines globally. Less than 0.43 percent do not arrive with their ...

Bloomberg Britain’s strategy for boosting the aviation sector will seek to enhance international connectivity as the UK quits the European Union, tighten noise and pollution curbs, tap new anti-terrorist technologies and improve the travel experience with everything from personal baggage collection to smoother border controls. The plan would also seek to safeguard Britain’s aerospace manufacturing base, advance the development of ...

Bloomberg Spring Airlines Co., China’s biggest budget carrier, plans to resume some flights to South Korea as easing tensions between the two neighbors encourage mainland tourists to return to the peninsula’s popular destinations. Relations between China and South Korea are better than a few months ago, and that should enable the airline to boost its services, Chairman Wang Yu told ...

Bloomberg InterGlobe Aviation Ltd., operator of India’s largest airline, has picked banks including Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley to work on an institutional share sale, according to people with knowledge of the matter. InterGlobe, which operates the IndiGo carrier, is planning the sale to help cut its owners’ stake to achieve the minimum public shareholding of ...

Bloomberg United Technologies Corp.’s Pratt and Whitney unit has been slow to incorporate promised cost savings techniques for the latest and biggest batch of engines to power F-35 jets, the Pentagon’s costliest weapons program, according to a new report. Pratt is producing 102 engines for the fighters built by Lockheed Martin Corp. under what’s now a $2.1 billion contract, including ...