Aviation Daily Roundup: April. 4, 2023

Kenya Airways and South African Airways (SAA) have delayed plans to create a pan-African airline group from 2023 to 2024, giving both carriers space to focus on their own restructuring.

LanzaJet has partnered with Jet Zero Australia to start planning work on what could be Australia’s first sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in Queensland. 

European LCC easyJet believes it has the right fleet for the summer peak and has no plans to follow other carriers by wet-leasing additional aircraft. 

Cathay Pacific is confident that surging demand in many Asia-Pacific markets, including mainland China, will enable it to meet its ambitious capacity growth targets.

To better position Singapore and UK aviation markets for the post-pandemic recovery, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) have announced they will enhance cooperation in aviation safety, sustainability, training, innovation and “horizon scanning.”

Cainiao, the logistics arm of e-commerce giant Alibaba, is establishing an air freight center at Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport (SZX) as it prepares to ramp up international cargo movements with airline partner Atlas Air. 

Air France-KLM and CMA CGM formally launched their long-term strategic air cargo partnership April 1, in which Air France-KLM Martinair Cargo and CMA CGM Air Cargo combined cargo networks, full freighter capacity and services.