Bloomberg Heathrow airport, unionised workers and ground-handling staff issued a joint plea to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for more state funding to help the aviation industry survive Covid-19 travel restrictions that put demand at just 2% of its usual level. A June estimate by the New Economics Foundation said a further 124,000 jobs in the UK were at risk …

Bloomberg One of Walmart Inc.’s longtime foes conceded the retailer’s latest foray into banking could end well for consumers. “There are still a lot of people who want a physical location to go to for their banking services, and Walmart could provide that with all its stores,” said Sheila Bair, who oversaw the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. when the retail …

Bloomberg The fan blade that broke on a United Airlines plane over suburban Denver last month failed well before it was required to receive its next routine inspection, investigators said. The blade that fractured, triggering the February 20 failure, had 2,979 cycles — each of which represents a flight or any time the engine was started — since its last …