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United: 593 US staff face firing for rejecting shot

Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc said as many as 593 employees face termination after declining to get the coronavirus vaccine following the carrier’s deadline last week. About 2,000 United workers have requested an exemption on medical or religious grounds, the company said, the day after the vaccine mandate deadline took effect for about 67,000 US-based employees. The airline plans to ...

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Boeing sees travel back at 2019 levels in two or three years

Bloomberg Boeing Co forecasts that commercial aviation should be back to 2019 levels in two to three years, buoyed by a strong domestic recovery in China and parts of Europe, the US planemaker’s China head said. Various countries’ vaccination rates and differing quarantine requirements will pose some hurdles but “we’re anticipating in the next two to three years that the ...

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Upscale airline startup barges into Southwest’s Texas turf

Bloomberg A tiny startup is expanding its semiprivate flight services in Texas, an incursion on the home turf of industry behemoth Southwest Airlines Co that targets business travelers in three of the state’s largest cities. JSX will begin service to Austin, Texas, from Dallas Love Field while doubling its Houston service to four daily flights. The carrier boards at the ...

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