Looking at the eight destinations that Saudia Airlines has announced for its freshly delivered Airbus A321XLRs, something is interesting: not a single one is new to the schedule. But that is exactly the plan of the Jeddah-based carrier, which intends…
Italy’s decision to order six Airbus A330 MRTT tankers is about far more than replacing aging refueling aircraft. The tanker competition increasingly mirrors commercial aerospace itself: platform ecosystems, sustainment networks, production scale, and industrial resilience now matter as much as…
For much of the post?pandemic recovery, the commercial aviation industry operated under a comforting assumption: demand solves most problems. Travelers returned faster than expected, international markets reopened, and airlines regained pricing power after years of brutal competition. That phase may…
Guest Post by Timothy O’Neil-Dunne. For thirty years, I have had a nagging suspicion that one of the airline industry’s biggest stories was hiding in plain sight inside the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Form 41 data. Not in the glamorous…
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In its latest Policy Brief newsletter, Lufthansa Group has called for the German government to amend laws regarding employee strikes, with the group noting that “sympathy strikes and flash mobs” have become “just as permissible as frequent and prolonged warning…