Bloomberg China’s crackdown on Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd has raised questions about the government’s insider at the carrier: Air China Ltd. State-run Air China has quietly owned almost 30 percent of Cathay for more than a decade, giving the national flag carrier a ringside view of the Hong Kong airline’s worldwide operations. Restrictions imposed on Cathay by China’s aviation regulator …

Bloomberg Kenya Airways Plc said it will cut flights in the next few weeks because cancellations, resulting from a shortage of pilots, cost the carrier an estimated $50 million annually. The airline has 435 pilots but requires 497, Director of Operations Paul Njoroge said in a letter to the Kenya Airline Pilots Association (Kalpa), a copy of which Bloomberg has …

Bloomberg British Airways pilots forced the cancellation of almost all flights on the second day of a strike on Tuesday as their union called on management to make new pay proposals to resolve the dispute. The unit of IAG SA — which says the walkout is costing it about $49 million a day — scrubbed more than 1,600 departures and …