Aviation Daily Roundup: Oct. 25, 2022

Raytheon Technologies and General Electric reported strong commercial-aftermarket growth within their respective Pratt & Whitney and GE Aviation Services business units last quarter, lending support to the view that the aircraft maintenance sector is tracking toward a full recovery. 

Arab airlines have called on governments worldwide to learn lessons from the pandemic and not close international borders.

Any notion that airlines must fly less to become more sustainable is “nonsense,” the incoming CEO at Etihad Aviation Group said.

At the highly anticipated Communist Party congress in Beijing, President Xi Jinping said China has put “the people and their lives first” in its war against COVID-19, and doubled down on the country’s zero-COVID policy.

Icelandair Group President and CEO Bogi Nils Bogason said there is a big movement of people within the U.S., and the carrier is evaluating additional secondary cities to expand its North America network.

Australia’s Regional Express Holdings (Rex) plans to boost its narrowbody jet fleet after achieving steady financial improvement in this sector of its business.

Lufthansa subsidiaries Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) and Austrian Airlines have reached agreements with their employees to secure operational stability.

Electra.aero has provided details about its hybrid-electric short-takeoff-and-landing (eSTOL) aircraft development road map as assembly of a piloted, sub-scale demonstrator gets underway.