Bloomberg EasyJet Plc plans to become the first carrier to offset carbon emissions from all its flights as the aviation industry responds to a growing outcry over its contribution to climate change. “It’s not to say that this is the perfect solution, we know it’s an interim step before new technologies come into play,” CEO Johan Lundgren told Bloomberg TV. …

Bloomberg The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended that the Boeing Co 737 NG (Next Generation) be redesigned to prevent a repeat of a fatal accident last year in which an engine part broke off in flight, killing a passenger. More than 7,000 so-called 737 Next Generation planes could be affected by the recommendation that the inlet to the …

Bloomberg Air Botswana plans to reduce its workforce to 210 from 450 to prepare for the government’s latest attempt to privatise the loss-making state-owned carrier. The job cuts will come from separating the ground-handling operation into a new unit that could then be sold to private-equity firms, chairman Tebogo Masire told reporters in Gaborone. “Air Botswana must be lean and …