Bloomberg The holiday shopping season is off to a strong start and retailers hope to continue the momentum today—Cyber Monday—the biggest online spending day of the year. Amazon.com Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. are vying for holiday spending with competing deals on flat-screen televisions, toys and gadgets. Traditional retailers Macy’s Inc., Sears Holdings Corp. and JC Penney Co. have all …

Bloomberg Rising incomes and cheaper fares offered by budget carriers are fueling air travel in India, an aviation market set to be the third biggest behind China and the US. In signs traffic is surging, Mumbai on November 24 handled 969 flights in a 24-hour period, a world record for an airport that operates only one runway at any given …

Bloomberg As monuments to Britain’s past glories go, it’s hard to beat the Royal Air Force Club. Housed in a handsome stone building in London’s tony Mayfair district, the facility for current and former RAF personnel is stuffed with oil paintings of great moments in British aviation, busts of accomplished pilots and historic treasures like the first flight-test report for …