Aviation

  Bloomberg Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, the focus of protests by U.S. carriers and unions over labor practices, plans to recruit and hire commercial airline pilots in the country as the carrier expands flights out of Florida. Norwegian, supported by a fleet of Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliners, will be the only European airline to hire U.S.-based pilots, according to a ...

  Shoreham-by-Sea / AFP A dozen biplanes from the 1920s and 1930s will fly 8,000 miles from Crete to Cape Town next month in a vintage aviation rally that harks back to the early days of air travel. The pilots will fly along the Nile from Cairo to Khartoum, past the highlands of Ethiopia, down through East Africa past Mount ...

  Paris / AFP Airbus on Tuesday angrily lashed out against the Polish government’s handling of a failed helicopter deal which has caused diplomatic tensions between Paris and Warsaw. “Never have we been treated by any government customer the way this government has treated us,” Airbus chief executive Tom Enders said in a statement. The sharp criticism comes days after ...

  Geneva / AFP Circling the globe in an aircraft that used no fuel would be enough for some to rest on their laurels, but the pilots of Solar Impulse 2 spoke of their new project. “An unmanned version of Solar Impulse,” aviator and engineer Andre Borschberg told reporters when asked what groundbreaking mission the Swiss-based team was tackling next. ...

  Bloomberg Juneyao Airlines Co., which currently only flies narrowbody jets from Airbus Group SE, is considering buying 10 widebody aircraft by 2020 to expand international routes. The planes could come from Airbus or Boeing Co., Juneyao Chairman Wang Junjin said on Monday. The carrier hasn’t placed any orders, Wang said at a briefing in Shanghai on its plans to ...

  Bloomberg Etihad Airways PJSC has hired banks for a potential Islamic bond sale, according to people familiar with the matter. The third-biggest airline in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council mandated banks including HSBC Holdings Plc, National Bank of Abu Dhabi PJSC and Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC for the offering, said the people, who asked not to be identified because ...

  Bloomberg Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA plans to establish Buenos Aires as a hub in South America as expansion across the Americas may see round-trip ticket prices across the North Atlantic fall to $150. The discount carrier may start connecting Buenos Aires with Oslo, London and Paris in as early as 12 months once government permissions have been granted, Chief ...

  Bloomberg It’s rarely a good sign when you become the butt of jokes. But that’s what happened to Pratt & Whitney at an industry gathering recently, when John Leahy, the venerable chief salesman of Airbus Group SE, went on about a futuristic airplane — with an engine that “no doubt will be delivered late.” While the audience was amused, ...

  Bloomberg The United Nations accord reached to clean up pollution from international aviation may cost airlines as much as $23.9 billion annually by 2035. The companies see it as a victory. The landmark deal brokered in Montreal creates a global system requiring airlines to compensate for emissions growth after 2020 by funding environmental initiatives. That spares carriers from exactly ...

  AFP Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific bid farewell to its Boeing 747 fleet with a final low-altitude flyby over the city’s iconic skyline. The final route harked back to dramatic images of the planes flying low over rooftops of apartment blocks as they used to approach the old airport on the harbour. The flight, codenamed CX8747, flew over ...