Aviation

  Bloomberg Britain’s Doncaster Sheffield Airport will close due to a lack of “tangible proposals” for its future ownership and financial viability. Owner Peel Group Ltd. conducted a strategic review of the airport and will wind down services from Oct. 31, it said Monday. Peel pointed to high fixed costs and uncertainty over future income in saying it couldn’t responsibly ...

  Bloomberg Cape Town flights are arriving and departing as scheduled, despite a fuel shortage at South Africa’s second-largest airport. After asking airlines to limit their fuel intake in Cape Town, Airports Company South Africa said on Twitter on Tuesday that it has a contingency plan to tackle the issue. The airport only has a few days of jet fuel ...

  Bloomberg Vertical Aerospace Ltd.’s prototype electric air taxi lifted off for the first time this weekend and the company reiterated it was confident that the aircraft will be certified by 2025. The VX4 electric vertical take-off and landing, or eVTOL, vehicle rose in a so-called tethered hover test, in which the aircraft was still attached to the ground for ...

  Bloomberg PT Garuda Indonesia filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection in the Southern District of New York court, as the debt-laden carrier tries to secure its future profitability. The document is dated September 23. The submission comes as the airline, having completed a court-supervised debt restructuring in Indonesia to halve cut its debt load, tries to capitalise on the ...

Bloomberg Nasa is standing down from its Artemis I mission to the moon next week, as a tropical storm off the coast of South America creeps towards Florida and the agency’s launch site for the Space Launch System rocket. The US space agency said it will decide whether to roll the rocket and spacecraft back from the launch pad to ...

  Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp baggage handlers and other airport ground workers are looking to gain union representation, potentially following pilots and flight attendants in joining an organised labor group at the carrier. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) said it will file an application with the National Mediation Board after a sufficient number of the 3,000 ...

  Bloomberg All Nippon Airways will increase international flights and cabin staff numbers to meet an anticipated jump in demand when Japan abolishes Covid-19 border controls next month. “We’ve long been waiting for the easing of restrictions,” Chief Executive Officer Shinichi Inoue told reporters at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday. “We want to welcome visitors from overseas with increased ...

  Bloomberg Travellers looking to leave Hong Kong after two-and-a-half years of Covid isolation face the prospect of paying sky-high airfares after the government said it will scrap hotel quarantine on September 26. Weeks after Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, bruised by the city’s strict pandemic strategy, pleaded publicly for a roadmap to exit Covid, the Asian financial hub’s about-turn on ...

  Bloomberg Boeing Co agreed to pay $200 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) allegations that the company and its former CEO Dennis Muilenburg failed to disclose safety issues with its 737 Max jetliner, resolving one of the final US investigations related to two crashes that killed 346 people. The settlement, announced by the SEC, concludes a probe ...

  Ras Al Khaimah / Gulf Time IndiGo, India’s leading carrier, has commenced new daily direct flights between Mumbai and Ras Al Khaimah. Ras Al Khaimah is the 100th overall destination and 11th in Middle East in 6E network. Ras Al Khaimah was also named as Gulf Tourism Capital for the year 2020 and 2021 by Gulf Cooperation Council. The ...