Bloomberg UK households face a 38 billion pounds ($50 billion) hit from a surge in electricity and gas costs exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Financial Times newspaper reported. The increase for the 2022-23 year will be equivalent to a six pence rise in the basic rate of income tax, it said, citing an estimate by Aurora Energy Research …

Bloomberg Global airlines are going to great lengths to avoid Russian airspace but few to the extent of Finnair Oyj, the flag carrier of Finland. It’s flying thousands of miles around its northern neighbour, retracing routes abandoned decades ago at the end of the Cold War. The economic burden of those end-runs is measured in additional jet fuel burn, extended …

  Bloomberg Serbia’s flag carrier will scale back flights to Moscow after criticism that it’s profiting from the service at a time when most other airlines stopped flying to Russia to comply with sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine, President Aleksandar Vucic said. Air Serbia recently increased its Moscow flights to as many as three a day from one …