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Two-cent fares killing airlines in India market

Bloomberg Global carriers have flocked to India, lured by a domestic travel boom and what’s expected to be the world’s third-biggest aviation market by 2025. Yet India has proven an intensely competitive market, where profits are scarce and the life expectancy of weaker airlines is anything but certain. Jet Airways India Ltd., one of the first carriers to launch after ...

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Toys ‘R’ Us sale of Asia unit caught in ‘feud’

Bloomberg The sale of Toys ‘R’ Us’s last and most valuable remaining asset, its Asia operations, has become caught up in a battle between two groups of hedge funds over the future use of the brand by stores in that region. One group of funds, including Cerberus Capital Management and Cyrus Capital Partners, owns notes issued by the Asian stores ...

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United loses challenge to food service union drive

Bloomberg A vote on unionisation by 2,700 United Airlines in-flight catering workers can move forward over the company’s objections, the general counsel of the National Mediation Board ruled. The workers, who prepare and transport food for flights, are the only group of front-line United employees who don’t have union representation. In January, the hospitality union Unite Here filed a petition, ...

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