Bloomberg VietJet Aviation Joint Stock Co., the Vietnam carrier known for its bikini-clad flight attendants, expects profit to surge 30 percent this year on rising passengers as it prepares for its Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange listing debut in February. A total of 23 overseas investors bought 66.5 million shares — equivalent to about 14 percent of VietJet …

  Bloomberg British Airways owner IAG SA’s passenger count jumped 14 percent to 100.7 million last year, propelling it past Air France-KLM Group by that measure for the first time. Customer numbers were boosted by a full year of figures from Ireland’s Aer Lingus, which IAG purchased in 2015, together with gains at Spanish arm Iberia and the Vueling discount …

  AP Frontier Airlines says its chief operating officer (COO) left the company, the second high-level departure in less than a month at the budget airline. A Frontier spokesman confirmed that Bill Meehan stepped down last week and was replaced temporarily by Jim Nides, the company’s vice president of flight operations. Meehan joined Frontier in 2014 after being CEO of …