Aviation

  Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co said it’s facing high costs and delays in aircraft deliveries from Boeing Co, tarnishing a quarter in which the carrier topped Wall Street’s profit expectations on rebounding summer travel. The airline will receive 66 jets this year, down sharply from its prior plan for 114 deliveries, Southwest said in a statement. That puts further pressure ...

  Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp is acquiring deep-discounter Spirit Airlines Inc for at least $3.8 billion in cash, clinching a deal less than a day after Spirit called off a planned merger with Frontier Group Holdings Inc. JetBlue will pay $33.50 per share for Spirit, or as much as $34.15 depending on timing, the airlines said in a joint statement. ...

Bloomberg British Airways (BA) parent IAG SA reported a second-quarter profit and said it expects to post positive earnings for the full year as a rebound in travel led by premium leisure bookings more than makes up for capacity curbs tied to the industry’s staffing crisis. IAG had an operating profit of 287 million euros ($293 million) in the three ...

  Bloomberg An Airbus SE A320 aircraft operated by IndiGo, India’s biggest airline, slid off the runway onto grass while taxiing for takeoff in Jorhat, the carrier said in a statement. The flight to Kolkata was cancelled and the aircraft is being inspected in Jorhat, a city in the northeastern state of Assam. IndiGo, which is operated by InterGlobe Aviation ...

  Bloomberg Airbus SE cut its delivery goal and slowed a ramp up in production of its best-selling narrow-body model as supply-chain issues afflicting everything from engines to microchips show no sign of easing. The world’s biggest planemaker now aims to hand over around 700 aircraft in 2022, compared with an earlier target of 720, it said in a statement. ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc’s Spain-based cabin crew plan to strike for four days a week over the next five months in a major escalation of a dispute over pay at Europe’s largest discount carrier. The SITCPLA and USO unions have called 24-hour walkouts from August 8 until January 7, according to a statement. A SITCPLA representative said it had “no ...

Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp was close to an agreement to buy Spirit Airlines Inc, according to people familiar with the matter, swooping in hours after Spirit ended a pending merger with Frontier Group Holdings Inc on a lack of shareholder support. An accord was expected to be announced as soon as Thursday, said the people, who asked not to be ...

Bloomberg Singapore Airlines Ltd swung to a profit in the three months through June, as the end of travel restrictions across most of the world sparked a surge in demand for flights. The airline said in a statement that it posted net income of S$370 million ($268 million) in the quarter, compared with a loss of S$409 million in the ...

  Bloomberg SpiceJet Ltd tumbled in Mumbai trading after India’s aviation safety regulator limited the number of seats the budget carrier can sell at 50% for eight weeks following several mid-flight incidents, a move that could severely hurt its ability to earn money. SpiceJet shares fell as much as 9.7% on Thursday, the biggest intraday decline since May 6 and ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG passengers in Frankfurt and Munich faced an almost complete shutdown of operations on Wednesday as a walkout by ground crew forced Europe’s largest airline group to cancel more than 1,000 flights at its two busiest German hubs. The airline axed the services at short notice, slamming unions for causing major damage by escalating a wage dispute ...