Bloomberg British Airways (BA) pilots called for a strike ballot after unions rejected the latest pay package from management. Shares of IAG SA, owner of the airline, reversed earlier gains. “We are urgently considering next steps and will make a further statement later this week,” Brian Strutton, general secretary of the British Airline Pilots Association union, or Balpa, said in ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co’s 737 Max aircraft, grounded since March after two fatal crashes in five months, should be back in the air by December, a top US regulator said. It’s not possible to give an exact date as work progresses on safety fixes to the aircraft, Ali Bahrami, the Federal Aviation Administration’s associate administrator for aviation safety, said in an ...

Bloomberg An Indian court sentenced a business class passenger to life in jail after he was found guilty of placing a hijacking note in the washroom of a flight, the first such ruling under a new law. Birju Kishor Salla, 38, was also fined 50 million rupees ($720,000), which will be distributed among pilots, crew and passengers, a special court ...