Aviation

Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc faces potential disruption in one of its most lucrative overseas markets as 300 workers at London’s Heathrow airport begin voting in a strike ballot over pay. The poll of staff employed in operations, customer services and baggage handling will run until October 11, the Unite union said in a statement. United’s UK employees are in ...

  Bloomberg Airbus SE won a $4.85 billion deal to supply 40 airliners to a unit of China Southern Airlines Co, cementing its position in one of the world’s biggest aviation markets at the expense of chief rival Boeing Co. Xiamen Air, which has been an all-Boeing operator, agreed to buy Airbus’s A320neo narrow-body jets, according to a stock exchange ...

  Bloomberg Taiwan may scrap its three-day quarantine requirement for arrivals around mid-October if the pandemic continues to ease, as the island joins other regional holdouts moving to reopen their borders to travelers. The government will monitor the situation for another week, and plans to announce the easing two weeks ahead of the scheduled implementation, meaning the new rules would ...

  Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc says the carrier’s revenue expansion is coming from an increasing number of trips that mix business and leisure. The number of such trips has almost doubled over about the last nine months and now accounts for about 50% of revenue, Chief Commercial Officer Vasu Raja said at Skift Global Forum in New York. Passengers ...

  Bloomberg Australia’s Qantas Airways Ltd is under fire from customers after scrapping vegetarian meal options on short-distance routes, adding to a barrage of criticism over delayed and canceled flights and lost luggage. The move sparked anger after a former TV presenter took to Twitter to complain about the lack of vegetarian options on his two-hour flight from Adelaide to ...

  Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc’s cargo airline is growing at the slowest pace since the start of the pandemic, the latest sign that the e-commerce giant is adjusting to slackening demand. Amazon Air freighters averaged about 194 flights a day during a week earlier this month, up 3.8% from March, according to researchers with DePaul University’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development. ...

  Bloomberg The air up there is getting crowded — and at least one major airline says other users need to pay their fair share. Companies launching rockets and satellite payloads, along with private jet operators need to pay — or pay more — to fund the nation’s monitoring grid for flights, which is seeing an uptick in airborne vehicles, ...

  Bloomberg Flying business class has always been beyond the means of most fliers. Now even companies can’t afford fares that have soared as the world tries to reconnect in the wake of Covid. A return business-class flight on the longest routes, between New York and Sydney, for example, can cost more than $20,000, about double the price from pre-pandemic ...

  Bloomberg Boeing Co and China’s aviation authority held a meeting to evaluate the 737 Max aircraft, which hasn’t been fully approved to return to commercial service in the country despite flying again in most other markets. The talks were held in Zhoushan in eastern China, according to CAAC News, the media arm of the Civil Aviation Administration of China. ...

  Bloomberg FedEx Corp’s profit warning this week hit a nerve with global markets already jittery over the state of the economy. Shares of the delivery giant sank 21% last week, wiping out $11 billion in market value, and dragging the broader market to its worst week since June, as the results fuelled concern of weaker e-commerce and business-to-business activity. ...