Bloomberg London Heathrow is imposing a two-month cap on daily passenger traffic to contain flight chaos, a dramatic response by the UK’s busiest airport to address the struggle with surging demand for travel. The airport will limit daily passenger traffic to 100,000 departing people through September 11, asking carriers to refrain from selling summer tickets. Current forecasts are modeling for ...

Bloomberg Air France-KLM’s French low-cost carrier, Transavia, cancelled 15% of flights amid a dispute with cabin crew, exacerbating the chaos engulfing European air travel. Dozens of the company’s flights from Paris-Orly airport were not operating, according to the SNPNC union, which had called for strike action over wages. The labour group refused to sign a deal agreed to with other ...

  Bloomberg South Africa’s minister in charge of embattled state-owned companies gave an impassioned defense of the sale of a majority stake in the national carrier for about $3 — a deal that’s subject to a lawsuit from one of the spurned bidders. The privatisation of South African Airways (SAA) is a vital reform for the country’s battered economy, Public ...