Bloomberg “Flight shame” — flyers feeling guilty about their carbon footprint — is a real phenomenon and will raise costs for airlines, consumers and companies, while catapulting emission offsetting into a big business, Citigroup predicts. The cost of offsetting planes’ carbon emissions could become as much as 10 times higher than the airline industry currently estimates, Citi analysts including Mark ...

Bloomberg Three airlines in South Africa took the unusual step of grounding some planes on October 22 after a regulator flagged compliance issues and ordered maintenance checks. Things got weirder when no one would publicly say exactly what needed checking. The groundings by state-owned South African Airways and its Mango unit, plus Comair Ltd, which operates British Airways domestic flights ...

Bloomberg Destination Maternity Corp, billed as the world’s largest retailer of maternity clothes, sought court protection from its creditors after warning investors it might not be able to survive as an independent merchant. The chain, which hasn’t posted an annual profit since 2014, listed assets and liabilities of as much as $500 million in its Chapter 11 petition, filed in ...