Bloomberg A new Australian airline backed by US investment firm 777 Partners pushed back its launch toward year-end, reflecting the difficulties of starting from scratch during Covid-19 and the global supply-chain crunch. Bonza’s first flights will be in the third or fourth quarter of 2022, as much as six months later than originally planned. Nailing down agreements with domestic …

Bloomberg More people are flying in more expensive cabins for leisure trips despite airfares rising on surging oil prices and demand, and that’s helped offset a slower recovery in business travel, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). reporters in Singapore. “Consumers had disposable income during the two years of the pandemic. People have saved and therefore they are …

  Bloomberg The black box for a China Eastern Airlines Corp jet that crashed earlier this year suggests the Boeing Co plane took an intentional nosedive, the Wall Street Journal said. Data recovered from the black box suggest that someone in the cockpit input controls that sent the plane into its deadly descent, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with …