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S Africa hires Bain, Abacus to advise on state airlines

  Bloomberg South Africa hired Bain & Co. to advise on the strategy and corporate structure of the country’s three loss-making state-run airlines to improve the benefit to the state from owning the carriers. Bain, based in Boston, was awarded the contract as part of a joint venture with a South African company, Abacus Advisory, according to a posting on ...

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PIA weighs Boeing, Airbus aircraft orders

  DUBAI / Reuters Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is evaluating an order for wide-body Airbus and Boeing jets as it looks to upgrade its ageing fleet, an executive for the state-owned airline said on Tuesday. “Boeing 777X would be a good option,” the airline’s executive director of human resources and works, Raheel Ahmed, told reporters on the sidelines of an ...

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Germany’s Eurowings hit by cabin crew strike

  Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG canceled 64 flights at its Eurowings division due to a strike by cabin crew as the German carrier braces for more severe disruption on Wednesday when its mainline pilots plan to walk out. On Tuesday, Eurowings flights to and from Dusseldorf and Hamburg were canceled due to strikes called by the flights attendants’ union Ver.di, ...

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