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Hong Kong’s nearly empty airport gets $18b expansion

  Bloomberg It could be one of the world’s most expensive white elephants. Hong Kong opened its new, third runway at its airport, part of a HK$141.5 billion ($18 billion) project that will increase its footprint by 50%, adding 650 hectares (1,606 acres), equivalent to the size of Gibraltar. Also under construction is a HK$20 billion entertainment, retail and commercial ...

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Wizz Air cuts 5% of its capacity in peak season

  Bloomberg Wizz Air Holdings Plc is cutting 5% of its capacity over the peak summer travel period to reduce the impact of a staffing crisis that’s plaguing the industry. The low-cost carrier’s reductions, announced in a statement, will add to travel disruptions across Europe after companies including British Airways, KLM and Deutsche Lufthansa AG scrapped flights as demand bounced ...

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Two of Europe’s biggest airlines scrap hundreds more flights

Bloomberg Two of Europe’s biggest airlines announced another round of cancellations, adding to the disruption turning the travel sector’s pandemic recovery summer into a nightmare. The Dutch arm of Air France-KLM plans to cancel as many as 20 round-trip flights to European destinations every day through the end of August. Deutsche Lufthansa AG said it will cancel 770 flights this ...

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