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Walmart’s early pay app falls flat as some employees leave

Bloomberg Three years ago, Walmart Inc. offered hundreds of thousands of its US workers a new perk to keep them from quitting. Employees loved it. Rivals copied it. Now Walmart has reached a conclusion: It hasn’t quite worked as expected. The perk is an app that gave employees the ability to tap their wages before payday, along with a bevy ...

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Indonesia plane skids off runway

Bloomberg An Indonesia cargo plane that returned to base shortly after takeoff because of a technical issue skidded off the runway when it landed at a Jakarta airport, the air-navigation operator said. Trigana Air’s Boeing 737-400 returned to Halim Perdanakusumah Airport about two minutes after takeoff, AirNav spokesman Yohanes Harry Douglas Sirait said. Several flights were diverted from the facility ...

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Avianca adds routes to beaches with eye on bankruptcy exit

Bloomberg Avianca Holdings SA plans to add dozens of routes using smaller aircraft as it plots its emergence from bankruptcy later this year, the airline’s chief executive said. Colombia’s largest carrier is expanding with 50 direct routes between secondary cities in coming years, said CEO Anko van der Werff in an interview. Using narrow-body planes, it will target tourist spots ...

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