Aviation

Bloomberg Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly said he may ban laptop computers in the cabins of all international flights into and out of the US amid continuing terrorist threats to bring down airplanes, but that a final decision hadn’t been made. “That’s really the thing that they’re obsessed with, the terrorists: the idea of knocking down an ...

Bloomberg British Airways’ flight schedule is slowly recovering as the carrier digs out of a massive computer failure that stranded thousands of passengers worldwide over the weekend and cast doubts on Chief Executive Officer Alex Cruz’s aggressive cost-cutting strategy. The UK carrier cancelled 50 flights, or about 6 percent of the total 852 scheduled, to and from its main London ...

Bloomberg British Airways (BA) said it will try to operate most scheduled departures from London on Sunday, after a computer system failure paralyzed operations at the start of a three-day holiday weekend in the UK, stranding thousands of travelers at two major airports. The carrier scrapped all Saturday afternoon and evening departures from Heathrow and Gatwick airports following what it called ...

Bloomberg Manufacturers of airport security equipment have a message for travelers who fear they will have to give up laptops and tablet computers on international flights: They have a solution. At least four of the largest companies making screening devices say they are developing scanners so much better at detecting explosives than existing X-ray machines that passengers could leave laptops, ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc will soon offer connections to destinations including New York and Havana, as the budget carrier widens its network of long-haul partners with a deal with Spain’s Air Europa. In the first stage of the cooperation starting Tuesday, Ryanair customers can book Air Europa tickets to 20 cities in the Americas via the Dublin-based carrier’s website, the ...

Bloomberg AirAsia Bhd., the low-cost carrier that flies only Airbus SE planes, would consider using newly developed aircraft such as the Chinese-made C919 as the airline expands its fleet and destinations. “I think as an airline you have to look at everything,” AirAsia Group Chief Executive Officer Tony Fernandes said in a Bloomberg Television interview, when asked whether the carrier ...

Bloomberg Wizz Air Holdings Plc plans to step up its expansion in Eastern Europe as slower capacity growth at local flag-carriers stung by higher fuel costs encourages a recovery in ticket prices. Budapest-based Wizz will add 6.6 million seats in the year that began April 1, lifting its capacity to about 33 million passengers. The increment represents about half of ...

Bloomberg Never mind voters or airport executives. The constituency Canada needs to get on board for any privatization of the country’s airports is its bondholders. Investors who hold debt in the country’s biggest airports are protected by rules and contracts that would likely require the government to get their consent — and offer compensation — before it could change the ...

Bloomberg As Singapore Airlines Ltd. considers broadening its debt sources amid plans to spend S$30.1 billion ($22 billion), some analysts are pointing to the likelihood of a shift to US-dollar bonds and the higher borrowing costs that may entail. Chief Financial Officer Stephen Barnes said on May 19 that the carrier is looking to raise funds in different currency bonds. ...

Emirates Business CEB will fly the last of its four-times-a-week service from Manila to Kuwait on June 13, and its Kuwait-Manila flight on June 14. The thrice-weekly Manila-Doha-Manila route will have its last flight on July 1. The airline’s last flight from Manila to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia will depart on July 2, while the Riyadh-Manila flight will leave on July ...