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Air Canada rips Trudeau over rules, may cancel plane orders

Bloomberg Air Canada escalated a fight with the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the country’s stringent travel rules, threatening to suspend more routes and cancel orders of locally made planes. Chief Executive Officer Calin Rovinescu lambasted the government during the airline’s second-quarter earnings call, saying that current restrictions — especially a mandatory 14-day quarantine for all travellers coming ...

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United pivots to leisure routes in schedule boost

Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc will boost flights modestly in September as it resumes service on more than 25 international routes and begins skewing its network towards leisure traffic. The September schedule will amount to 37% of last year’s level, a slightly higher portion than the plan for August, United said in a statement. Destinations in Mexico and the Caribbean ...

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British Airways pilots take pay cut over job losses row

Bloomberg British Airways pilots accepted a pay cut of 20% in a deal to limit job losses, resolving a bitter dispute at the IAG SA unit as carriers seek to weather the global slump in air travel caused by the coronavirus. Just over one-fifth of the 1,255 redundancies initially planned will now go ahead, and some of those may also ...

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