Aviation

  Bloomberg EasyJet Plc and Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc said they successfully tested a converted jet engine running on hydrogen for the first time, as the aviation industry takes steps to move to alternative fuels and reduce green-house emissions. The test was conducted with a converted Rolls-Royce AE 2100-A regional jet engine using hydrogen created by wind and tidal power, EasyJet said. ...

Bloomberg Shuttering Berlin airport for more than two hours and upsetting the travel plans of thousands of passengers proved little more challenging than a walk in the park for four climate protesters. Video footage of the runway invasion shows two of them calmly pushing a bicycle along a country path before slipping through a hole in the perimeter fence as ...

  Bloomberg Hong Kong expects air passenger traffic to recover to as much as 70% of pre-pandemic levels by the end of next year and return to normality by 2024, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported, citing an official. Deputy Director of Airport Operations Steven Yiu Siu-chung brushed aside concern about the airport’s status as an aviation hub, the newspaper ...

  Bloomberg Passengers flying through London City Airport will be able to leave laptops and liquids in their bags when passing through security from next year. The hub, which is currently trialling one security lane equipped with next-generation baggage scanners, plans to introduce the machines on all its lanes by April as part of a partnership with Leidos Holdings Inc, ...

  Bloomberg Oneworld, the global airline alliance led by American Airlines Group Inc. and British Airways, is in discussions about bringing China Southern Airlines Co. into its ranks. China Southern is the nation’s largest airline with dual hubs in the capital Beijing and the southern city of Guangzhou, where it is headquartered. Bringing it into the oneworld alliance could provide ...

  Bloomberg Portugal’s state-owned airline TAP SA will cancel 360 flights during a two day cabin-crew strike scheduled for December 8-9 after the carrier failed to reach a new agreement with unions. “The cancellation of the flights is happening now,” Chief Executive Officer Christine Ourmieres-Widener said at a press conference in Lisbon on. The strike will affect about half of ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG is evaluating a solo bid for Alitalia successor ITA Airways after talks between the Italian government and other potential suitors collapsed, according to people with the matter. The German airline group is looking through ITA’s data room and could make a bid to acquire the carrier on its own, said the people, asking not to ...

  Bloomberg Arrive at the airport early — the Thanksgiving travel rush is back. More people are traveling through US airports in the pre-holiday period than in 2019, according to the TSA. On November 22, 2,299,346 people were screened in security in American airports versus 1,968,137 passengers on the comparable day in 2019. The travel figures were higher as well, ...

Bloomberg Qantas Airways Ltd. upgraded profit expectations for the final six months of 2022 just weeks after its initial forecast, highlighting the intensity of a demand rebound that has sent fares soaring. The airline’s shares jumped. The Australian airline said it expects underlying profit before tax in the period of between A$1.35 billion ($900 million) and A$1.45 billion. That’s A$150 ...

  Bloomberg The airline industry remains likely to return to profit next year, with high employment levels and growth in key economies sustaining demand even as household bills spiral, the head of its main lobby group said. Carriers should achieve positive earnings in 2023 for the first time since 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic roiled global travel, International Air Transport ...