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Ruto keen to sell government’s entire stake in Kenya Airways

  Bloomberg Kenya’s government is prepared to sell its entire stake in the East African nation’s loss-making airline, newly elected President William Ruto said. “I’m willing to sell the whole” of Kenya Airways Plc, Ruto said in an interview on the sidelines of the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington. “I’m not in the business of running an airline that just ...

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Airline revenue is pressured in ‘off-trend’ calendar quirk

  Bloomberg Airlines are coping with a calendar quirk that’s prompting more fliers to book flights on either side of December, creating an air pocket in the last month of the year. The US Thanksgiving holiday on November 24 was the earliest its been since 2018, prompting more travellers to take a return trip the same month — unlike in ...

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Starbucks-Amazon store staff reject union membership

  Bloomberg Baristas at an experimental Starbucks-Amazon Go store in New York narrowly rejected union membership, the latest setback for the US labour movement. The workers, who legally work for Starbucks Corp, requested a union election because they said the tie-up between the coffee chain and Amazon.com Inc doubled their workload with no additional pay. The vote was very close, ...

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