Morning Call for Wednesday 5 May features stories focusing on the freighter market, two business aviation milestones, another airline retiring the A380 while another wants to bring them back, and a major aerospace player indicating that batteries aren’t yet ready for UAM operations.
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Commercial Aviation
- Israel Aerospace signs deal for Boeing 777 cargo conversions in South Korea – Reuters
- Work gets underway at Stavatti Aerospace in Niagara – BizJournals
- Airbus sees gap in widebody freighter market as Boeing is hit by new rules – Loadstar
- COMAC completes production, test flight center – GlobalTimes
Business Aviation
- Pilatus Delivers 1800th PC-12 – CutterAviation
- Second Falcon 6X Makes Successful First Flight – Dassault
Airlines
- Malaysia Airlines Retiring Airbus A380 – OMAT
- Delta and BCD Travel sign industry-first global travel management sustainable fuel agreement – Delta
- Delta to retrofit Airbus A330, Boeing 767 fleets – TPG
- Emirates forecasts busy winter 2021, hints A380 return – Aerotime
Urban Air Mobility
- Textron to take time over eVTOL development as batteries ‘not yet ready’ – FlightGlobal
Social Media
- DIY de-icing – Twitter
