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  • PASADENA, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 16: A vehicle passes below the contrail remaining from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying 26 Starlink internet satellites on June 16, 2025 as seen from Pasadena, California. SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, marked its 500th overall Falcon mission last week. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Tech

    Virgin Atlantic will use Musk’s Starlink for fleet Wi-Fi

    By Kate Duffy and Bloomberg
  • Airbus A320-232, from Wizz Air company, landing at Barcelona airport, in Barcelona on 16th December 2022.<br /> &#8212; (Photo by Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Retail

    Wizz stock plunges after profit misses estimates, costs rise

    By Kate Duffy and Bloomberg
  • Luis Gallego, chief executive officer of International Airlines Group (IAG), speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) annual general meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday, June 5, 2023. Global airlines stand to earn a collective $9.8 billion in profit this year, the airline industry&#8217;s main lobby group said, doubling its previous estimate from December as a surge in flying in North America and Europe drives up ticket prices. Photographer: Moe Zoyari/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRetail

    British Airways owner sees transatlantic slowdown recovering

    By Kate Duffy, Guy Johnson, and others
  • Kenton Jarvis, chief executive officer of EasyJet Plc, following a Bloomberg Television interview at London Southend Airport, in Southend-on-Sea, UK, on Monday, March 31, 2025. The carrier plans to base three aircraft at Southend and operate seven package holiday destinations from there. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRetail

    EasyJet studies loyalty program after Ryanair starts new plan

    By Kate Duffy, Nick Bartlett, and others
  • LONDON, ENGLAND &#8211; MARCH 22: Flights resume as Heathrow re-opens on March 22, 2025 in London, England. Flights resumed after a fire at a nearby electricity sub-station took out the power and grounded aircraft. (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)Lifestyle

    Heathrow says it’s fully operational after blackout shutdown

    By Danny Lee, Kate Duffy, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; NOVEMBER 13: Elon Musk listens as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump addresses a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. As is tradition with incoming presidents, Trump is traveling to Washington, DC to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House as well as meet with Republican congressmen on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)Retail

    SpaceX, Amazon in talks with British Airways owner on Wi-Fi deal

    By Kate Duffy and Bloomberg
  • Ryanair chief executive Michael O&#8217;Leary speaks to journalists during a press conference at The Alex Hotel in Dublin. Picture date: Thursday October 3, 2024. (Photo by Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images)Retail

    Ryanair CEO blasts ‘bonkers’ U.K. government over travel-duty

    By Kate Duffy and Bloomberg
  • Jozsef Varadi, chief executive officer of Wizz Air Holdings Plc, during a Bloomberg Television interview in London, UK, on Thursday, May 23, 2024. Wizz Air said capacity won't advance in the fiscal first half and the full year as the Hungarian budget airline continues to grapple with geopolitical instability and the grounding of aircraft because of engine issues. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Wizz Air’s engine woes are ‘going to take years’ to resolve CEO warns, with nearly 50 planes grounded until late-2025

    By Kate Duffy and Bloomberg
  • Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun is departing a meeting with Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) in the Hart Senate Office Building, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on January 25, 2024, as Boeing is dealing with the fallout of multiple recent safety mishaps, including a door blowing out mid-flight. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Leadership

    Boeing CEO sounds alarm: Isolationist rhetoric imperils global trade as U.S., U.K. elections loom

    By Guy Johnson, Kate Duffy, and others
  • Saxa Vord former military site, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland (Photo by: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Tech

    Tiny Scottish island, with more sheep than people, becomes the U.K.’s first spaceport for vertical rockets

    By Kate Duffy and Bloomberg
  • An Airbus A340 passenger aircraft operated by Lufthansa stand next to Air France aircraft parked in a storage facilityRetail

    Air France-KLM and Lufthansa’s cost-cutting plan takes off as tough first quarter loss hits

    By Kate Duffy and Bloomberg
  • Johan Lundgren, CEO of EasyJet PlcRetail

    The summer’s looking bright for budget airline easyJet as bookings grow, losses narrow and its Israel service is repurposed

    By Kate Duffy and Bloomberg
  • Low-cost airline EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren.Retail

    EasyJet is confident it’ll grow ‘more than any other European airline this summer,’ CEO Johan Lundgren said

    By Kate Duffy and Bloomberg
  • WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES &#8211; SEPTEMBER 14: The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Bill Nelson attends a media briefing at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C., United States on September 14, 2023. NASA released a report Thursday that said there is no conclusive evidence to suggest an extraterrestrial origin for unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), commonly known as UFOs. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Tech

    NASA takes ‘first concrete action’ to investigate UFOs by naming a chief to ‘shift the conversation from sensationalism to science’

    By Kate Duffy and Bloomberg