Aviation Daily Roundup: August 31, 2021

Ben Goldstein

Southwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines announced plans to increase their employee hiring targets, part of an effort to address staffing shortages amid a strong U.S. domestic summer travel season.

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David Casey

Alitalia’s successor plans to launch four long-haul routes to the U.S. later this year.

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Victoria Moores

Ethiopian Airlines and Boeing have signed an MOU aimed at boosting aviation skills and capabilities in Addis Ababa over the coming three years.

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Graham Warwick

Harbour Air, MagniX and H55 have completed the preliminary design review on their electric propulsion modification for the 1940s-vintage de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver.

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Victoria Moores

Airbus has scooped up UK leisure carrier Jet2 as a new customer after the Boeing 737 and 757 operator agreed to acquire 36 Airbus A321s.

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Helen Massy-Beresford

The EU’s suggestion to remove the U.S. from its safe list, as COVID-19 infections among Americans rise, is yet another blow to airlines that have been hoping for a long-haul recovery to match their summer short-haul boost.

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Helen Massy-Beresford

Norwegian Air Shuttle is expecting a trend of increasing forward bookings to continue throughout the rest of 2021 and through 2022.

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Maxim Pyadushkin

The government-owned carrier made its first low-cost flight from Tashkent to Moscow on Aug. 30.

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Michael Bruno

Robert Mehrabian will resume his role as Teledyne's chairman, president and chief executive officer after current officeholder Al Pichelli retires on Oct. 15.

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Michael Bruno

Collins Aerospace, already one of the largest commercial aerospace suppliers—let alone as part of Raytheon Technologies—is buying high-profile flight tracking data provider FlightAware.

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Adrian Schofield

Australia’s Regional Express (Rex) appears to be delaying plans to expand the new narrowbody jet service that it introduced on Australian domestic trunk routes earlier in 2021.

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Alan Dron

A slower than anticipated recovery from the pandemic has seen the company operating Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) significantly scale back the number of passengers it expects to handle in 2021.

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Victoria Moores

TAP Air Portugal is making headway with its turnaround, phasing out five older aircraft and cutting its workforce by 16%, as it awaits a European Commission (EC) ruling on its restructuring plan.

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Graham Warwick

For one large commuter airline in the U.S., the lessons it is learning as the launch operator of a new conventionally powered aircraft could prove invaluable as it embraces electric aircraft.

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David Casey

The carrier is now able to add points in the U.S. to its long-haul network.

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