Bloomberg Southend airport, seeking to become London’s sixth hub even though it’s almost an hour away on the North Sea, will operate its own flights in a bid to demonstrate the viability of an expanded timetable to carriers frustrated by capacity curbs at the far bigger Heathrow and Gatwick bases. The services to cities in mainland Europe will employ ...

  Bloomberg Alaska Air Group Inc. received permission for a five-week delay in starting service on a prized flight between Havana and Los Angeles, as regulators rejected an attempt by JetBlue Airways Corp. to secure the route and move it to Boston. The U.S. Transportation Department agreed Alaska could wait until Jan. 5 to begin the service instead of the ...

  Bloomberg Orange SA reported a 1.6 percent increase in third-quarter earnings, helped by rising wireless sales in Spain and Africa and demand for faster broadband in its home market of France. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization rose to 3.6 billion euros ($3.9 billion), Orange said in a statement Tuesday. That compared with the average analyst estimate ...