Despite an almost full recovery of traffic on domestic routes, Chinese airlines remain cautious or even pessimistic about their financial situation and outlook. The number of flights might have recovered to 2019 levels but load factors and yields remain weak,…
Watching session after session at Thursday’s digital World Aviation Festival, you couldn’t help but think that one airline executive after another top manager was reading from the same piece of paper. Their message: governments must work together on common Covid-measures…
London Heathrow and Dubai International are offering to become pilot-airports for pre-travel Covid-testing that if successful should convince decision-makers that this is the way to go. It should win back the confidence of the traveler. Airport CEO’s discussed the current…
Pilots organizations, technical experts, and others have called on the FAA to take additional measures to make the Boeing MAX safer before it can return to service. Among the recommendations is the installation of a third Angle of Attack (AoA)…
Lufthansa is to cut more full-time jobs and retire additional aircraft, it announced on September 21 in its third restructuring program. An unspecified number of extra jobs will be lost, on top of the 22.000 full-time equivalents reported in April…
Airbus is getting serious about developing a new generation of zero-emission airliners, the first of which should be available around 2035. The next-gen Airbus of airliners is to fly on hydrogen, it said on September 21. CEO Guillaume Faury has…