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JetBlue slashes April flying 70% as bookings dry up

Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp expects to slash flights 70% next month and deeper cuts are likely in the carrier’s home base in New York, as the spread of coronavirus erases travel demand. Daily departures will fall to 300 from about 1,000, JetBlue said. Flights leaving New York-area airports are slated to tumble to 60 but may dip to as few ...

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Stockpiling for virus lifts UK supermarket sales

Bloomberg Coronavirus-driven stockpiling by Britons girding for a nationwide lockdown lifted UK grocery sales to a record in March, according to research firm Kantar. Supermarket sales grew by 7.6% in the past 12 weeks, the fastest pace in more than a decade. That rate of increase nearly tripled over the past four weeks, making March the biggest month of grocery ...

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Italy outbreak is slowing. So what happens next?

Among western nations, Italy has been the canary in the mine of the Covid-19 epidemic. For the past month, the daily life of Italians has been marked by a dreadful combination of a rising death toll and tightening restrictions. Soon, it turned out that the rest of the world was no different: From Spain to the UK, countries have had ...

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