Bloomberg Air Berlin Plc’s insolvency could open the way for Deutsche Lufthansa AG to add new hubs for inter-continental flights while allowing short-haul discount specialist EasyJet Plc to boost its presence in the German capital. The ailing carrier’s Berlin and Dusseldorf bases would provide Lufthansa’s lower-cost Eurowings arm with a chance to expand a long-haul network currently limited to Cologne-Bonn …

Bloomberg Indian airport operators surged after the country’s top court allowed them to use airport land for commercial purposes, rejecting the government’s objections. Private airport operators can now take advantage of a new civil aviation policy unveiled last year that liberalised norms, allowing commercial use of airport land, a two-judge bench headed by J. Chelameswar ruled, upholding a previous lower …

Bloomberg Jack Ma is ahead of Jeff Bezos in one area: grocery stores. For years, it looked to some like Ma’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. was simply following in the footsteps of Bezos’ Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest e-commerce company. Just like Seattle-based Amazon, China’s online shopping giant started a cloud-computing business and created original entertainment content. But when Amazon’s …