Bloomberg Chinese airlines need to hire almost 100 pilots a week for the next 20 years to meet skyrocketing travel demand. Facing a shortage of candidates at home, carriers are dangling lucrative pay packages at foreigners with cockpit experience. Giacomo Palombo, a former United Airlines pilot, said he’s being bombarded every week with offers to fly Airbus A320s in ...

  Bloomberg China will restrict the operations of North Korean national airline Air Koryo after one of its planes had to make an emergency landing last month because of a fire on board, it said. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) will take “relevant measures to limit operations” for the carrier, it said in a statement on its website, ...

  Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to delay a new nuclear plant backed by China makes it more likely that expansion at London Heathrow Airport, which also has Chinese investors, will win UK government backing, Chief Executive Officer John Holland-Kaye said. The UK will be reluctant to fuel tension with China, which reacted angrily to May’s decision last month ...