Aviation

  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. …

Bloomberg Senator Elizabeth Warren urged federal airline regulators to block JetBlue Airways Corp’s proposed merger with Spirit Airlines Inc. by invoking a rarely used authority from the 1950s to argue that the $3.8 billion deal isn’t “consistent with the public interest.” In a letter to Transportation Department Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, said the agency could use its …

  Bloomberg Virgin Australia is reluctant to resume long-haul services even as demand for international travel soars, Chief Executive Officer Jayne Hrdlicka said, as the airline seeks to rein in costs and prepares for an initial public offering as soon as next year. “Anything that we did from a long-haul standpoint would have a very high hurdle on it,” Hrdlicka …

  Bloomberg US aviation regulators struck back at major carriers’ reliability after the head of United Airlines Holdings Inc called the government’s air-traffic system “by far the No. 1” cause of flight delays. United Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby made the comments in Washington during a conference. Within hours, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a statement, including a chart …