Aviation

Bloomberg Airbus SE jetliner handovers increased in September, while remaining short of the monthly average needed to reach an already downgraded year-end goal. The planemaker delivered 55 aircraft, up from 39 in August, it said, confirming a Bloomberg report. That takes net tally to 435, meaning it must ship an average 88 per month to hit the annual target of ...

  Bloomberg The US Air Force said it will take an additional 19 months for Boeing Co. to start installing an improved version of the flawed camera-based refuelling system on its KC-46 refuelling planes, according to the service. “After thoroughly evaluating all the data and assumptions that went in to the current schedule” the Air Force and Boeing determined that ...

  Bloomberg London’s Heathrow airport said growing economic headwinds and the escalating war in Ukraine have made the outlook for travel uncertain this winter. The hub still expects peak days through the Christmas holidays to be very busy and will focus on ramping capacity back up to pre-pandemic levels, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Heathrow had close to ...

  Bloomberg Startup airline Norse Atlantic ASA plans to rent out a third of its fleet next summer amid concern that a weaker economic environment will weigh on demand in the trans-Atlantic markets it’s targeting. Norse, which agreed to take 15 Boeing Co. 787 jets from leasing firms with the aim of building up US flights from London Gatwick, has ...

Bloomberg The first commercial Boeing Co. 737 Max flight appeared to have resumed flying into China for the first time in almost four years, in what would be a major breakthrough for the US planemaker’s best-selling jet. A MIAT Mongolian Airlines flight operating a round-trip between Ulaanbaatar to Guangzhou landed in the southern Chinese city at 8:18am local time on ...

  Bloomberg Boeing Co gained an unlikely ally in the pilots of the world’s largest 737 operator as the planemaker lobbies Congress to extend the deadline for certifying its Max 10 and Max 7 models and avoid a potentially costly cockpit redesign. “We 100% support the extension,” Casey Murray, head of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, said in an interview. ...

Bloomberg Europe’s leading airlines are misleading consumers with claims that they can fly guilt-free by using carbon offsets to neutralise the environmental impact of air travel, according to a new report by the non-profit Carbon Market Watch. A temporary dip during the Covid-19 pandemic aside, airline emissions have been steadily rising for the past two decades and, left unchecked, could ...

  Bloomberg Just over 1,000 people have signed up for Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.’s flight attendant recruiting drive, around half of the 2,000 targeted by the end of 2023, underscoring the labour challenges the airline faces as it seeks to fully restore flights in and out of the Asian financial hub. Cathay said it was satisfied with the expressions of ...

  Bloomberg Deliveries of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 will resume after the Pentagon’s acquisitions chief issued a “national security” waiver from a ban on a Chinese alloy used in a component on the fighter jet. The component — a magnet in a device supplied by Honeywell International Inc. — has been used in the plane since 2003. After the Chinese ...

  Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc. is planning to restart Hong Kong flights as soon as January, according to people familiar to the matter, becoming one of a handful of major airlines to resume passenger flights to the city, which has largely been cut off to the outside world since the start of the pandemic. The Chicago-based carrier is evaluating ...