Aviation

Bloomberg Taiwan’s China Airlines Ltd. ordered 16 Boeing Co. 787-9 aircraft with options for eight more and conversion rights to a higher-capacity Dreamliner jet, as it looks beyond the pandemic. The government-backed carrier announced the deal in a statement on Tuesday, weeks after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, infuriating Beijing, which considers the island to be part of ...

Bloomberg Nasa delayed the debut launch of its new massive rocket due to an issue with one of its engines, dealing a temporary blow to the space agency’s plan to return to the lunar surface. With Vice President Kamala Harris in attendance at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center and a global audience watching online, the uncrewed Artemis I mission was called ...

  Bloomberg Two Air France pilots were suspended after coming to blows in the cockpit of an Airbus jetliner during a flight between Geneva and Paris, latest safety issue to plague the airline. The mid-air dispute occurred in June, according to a spokeswoman for the carrier, who confirmed a report by La Tribune newspaper. The incident was resolved quickly, and ...

Bloomberg SAS AB, which is working its way through a Chapter 11 restructuring in the US, cautioned that much more remains to be done to convince stakeholders to invest in the ailing Scandinavian carrier. The airline also needs to overcome the impact of a pilot strike and travel disruptions that hobbled its key summer season, just as the price of ...

  Bloomberg Nasa aims to use Boeing Co.’s Starliner space vehicle for a crewed mission to the International Space Station as soon as February, the agency said. The flight will mark a major milestone in Starliner’s development, which has suffered from delays and testing setbacks. The planned eight-day mission would be Starliner’s first with astronauts aboard. While the exact launch ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG pilots said they have begun preparations to go on strike after failing to reach a wage accord with the airline, potentially creating more chaos after recent labour action already disrupted operations at the height of summer travel season. “At this point we remain far apart,” Matthias Baier, the spokesman for the Vereinigung Cockpit pilot labour union, ...

  Bloomberg The US Department of Transportation is suspending 26 flights by Chinese airlines next month in a dispute over Beijing’s strict policies when travelers test positive for Covid-19. The retaliatory move follows the Chinese government’s decision to limit inbound flights by US carriers including United Airlines Holdings Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. China’s actions are “adverse to the ...

  Bloomberg Air New Zealand posted its third straight annual loss but indicated the worst is over and it expects earnings to improve now that borders have reopened. The Auckland-based airline announced a loss before significant items and tax of NZ$725 million ($450 million) for the year ended on June 30 compared with a NZ$444 million loss a year earlier. ...

Bloomberg Qantas Airways Ltd Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce defended the airline’s performance and pushed back against calls for him to resign after months of travel chaos, with a post-pandemic surge in demand plagued by flight delays, cancellations and lost luggage. “I think I’ve had more resignation requests than any other CEO or public figure out there,” Joyce, who has ...

  Bloomberg England’s elite football clubs wanting to travel to games by private plane are having to do something unfamiliar: get in line. Rising demand for chartered air travel in the UK means many English Premier League clubs are seeing their plans for getting to and from away matches disrupted, an issue that some coaches have already blamed for disappointing ...