Aviation

  DALLAS/ AP Twice in less than a month, a major airline was paralyzed by a computer outage that prevented passengers from checking in and flights from taking off. Last month, it took Southwest days to recover from a breakdown it blamed on a faulty router. On Monday, it was Delta’s turn, as a power outage crippled the airline’s information ...

  Bloomberg India has just plowed $50 million in a new 102-meter (335 feet) air-traffic control tower in New Delhi. Now comes the hard part: finding qualified flight controllers to operate it. Designed by HOK, the same firm that drafted Apple Inc.’s research headquarters in California, the tower will be operational in about six months. Yet, it may struggle to ...

  Bloomberg The failure of Delta Air Lines Inc.’s worldwide computer network this week spotlights the vulnerability of the information systems sustaining the biggest US carriers, each of which has contended with major disruptions during the last year. Complex networks cobbled together over the decades need major overhauls requiring significant new investments, said Bob Edwards, a former chief information officer ...

  Bloomberg Air Berlin Plc, the German airline that’s 29 percent-owned by Etihad Airways PJSC, said its second-quarter loss widened as costs increased as the carrier switched to an all-leased fleet and the euro declined against the dollar. The loss before interest and taxes almost quadrupled to 62.7 million euros ($69.9 million) from 15.9 million euros a year earlier, Germany’s ...

  Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc. Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian apologized for a computer failure that halted flights for several hours and grounded thousands of passengers as the second-biggest U.S. carrier struggled to restart its worldwide operations. More than 100 flights are expected to be canceled Tuesday morning, about 200 could be delayed and those numbers could grow overnight, ...

  Sydney/ AFP MH370 plunged into the ocean at high speed — up to 20,000 feet a minute — reinforcing analysis that the missing Malaysia Airlines jet crashed in the current search zone, a report said Tuesday. he Boeing 777 disappeared on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people onboard. An extensive underwater hunt ...

  Bloomberg Singapore has put on hold a decision to buy as many as 12 of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 jets, according to information from the Pentagon’s program office. The island nation’s permanent secretary of defense development informed the US in mid-June that it was delaying final steps toward purchasing four of the fighters by about 2022, with an option ...

  Jakarta/ AFP The main airport serving the Indonesian capital Jakarta has opened a new terminal that will allow the overcrowded aviation hub to handle tens of millions more passengers a year. Air passenger numbers are soaring in Indonesia, the world’s biggest archipelago nation and Southeast Asia’s top economy, as a growing middle class increasingly chooses to fly but ageing ...

  Bloomberg Airbus Group SE said the U.K. Serious Fraud Office has opened a criminal investigation into allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption relating to some of its third-party consultants. The Toulouse, France-based planemaker said in a statement that it’s cooperating with investigators probing its civil aviation business. Airbus had flagged to U.K. regulators and the European Export Credit Agencies ...

  Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co.’s board made no bones about its response to the labor groups that called for the ouster of two top executives: They’re not going anywhere. After the carrier’s four largest unions earlier this week called for Chief Executive Officer Gary Kelly and Chief Operating Officer Mike Van de Ven to step down, directors fired back in ...