Bloomberg London’s Heathrow airport said it saw its first full quarter of passenger growth since 2019 as restrictions eased and travellers returned to flying. Traffic reached 28% of pre-pandemic levels in the third quarter, the airport said as it reported financial results. However, 3.4 billion pounds ($4.7 billion) in losses since the start of the Covid outbreak “underscore the long ...

Bloomberg United Airlines Inc told a federal judge the company is spending millions on paid leave for unvaccinated pilots because their colleagues “refuse to risk their safety” by flying with them. The leave is costing United about $1.4 million every two weeks — money it’s unlikely to recover even if it wins a lawsuit challenging the airline’s vaccine mandate for ...

Bloomberg The Biden administration issued new rules for travellers to the US requiring proof of full vaccination against Covid-19 in addition to a recent negative test for the virus. People from countries with low supplies of vaccines who aren’t traveling on tourist visas, and those under 18, will be exempt from the vaccine requirement, senior administration officials said. US citizens ...

Bloomberg Shoemaker Allbirds and its existing shareholders are seeking to raise up to $269 million in an IPO, adding to a fast-paced season for consumer-oriented listings in the US The San Francisco-based company is marketing 15.4 million shares for $12 to $14 each, according to its filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Existing backers are selling an additional ...

Bloomberg Thrasio Holdings Inc, an aggregator of Amazon.com Inc products, has raised more than $1 billion in a private funding round led by technology investor Silver Lake. Silver Lake, a new investor in Thrasio, was joined by existing investors including Advent International, Upper90, Oaktree Capital Management and Peak6 in the Series D financing, according to a statement. The round valued ...

Bloomberg China condemned the US’s latest overture towards Taiwan, warning that ties between the two countries faced “huge risks” just weeks after Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping agreed to hold a video summit. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s call for greater participation by Taiwan in UN organisations violated the “one China” understanding between Beijing and Washington, Foreign Ministry ...

Bloomberg Julian Assange won’t face solitary confinement or supermax prison in Colorado if he’s jailed in the US, as lawyers for the country argued his extradition shouldn’t have been blocked by a London judge on mental health grounds. The US laid out several assurances over his potential confinement and access to psychological treatment at the start of the London appeal ...

Bloomberg The Sudanese prime minister arrested in the military coup was returned to his home but remains under close guard, the Information Ministry said. Abdalla Hamdok was allowed to go back to his residence in the capital, Khartoum, the ministry said on its Facebook page. A number of government ministers and political leaders are still being held at unspecified locations, ...

Bloomberg As executives from JPMorgan Chase & Co, Citigroup Inc, Deutsche Bank AG and other lenders prepare for the most important UN climate summit in six years, their companies continue to help provide almost as much money for fossil fuels as for green projects. Scientists have made clear that time is running out to prevent a climate catastrophe. Yet this ...

Bloomberg Untangling trillions of dollars-worth of loans and other financial contracts from Libor is a complex, expensive and time-consuming job. So, finance giants are turning to artificial intelligence to simplify and speed up a task mandated by regulators — and spare human lawyers some serious drudgery. Morgan Stanley figures it’s saved legal staffers 50,000 hours of work and $10 million ...