Aviation Daily Roundup: Oct. 31, 2022

Mexican ULCC Viva Aerobus continues to face challenges in aircraft deliveries, which are creating cost headwinds for the airline. 

SkyWest Airlines has pushed back delivery dates of four Embraer E175s to ensure it has sufficient pilots to staff them, the carrier confirmed. 

The top narrowbody-aircraft engine manufacturers are in lockstep on where their main pain points reside. They also agree on how long the worst of the problems is likely to persist.

Taiwan’s Starlux Airlines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A350-900, giving the carrier the range to operate beyond Asia and into North America. 

Bahraini national carrier Gulf Air has named Captain Waleed Al Alawi as CEO, after two years of holding the role on an acting basis.

All Nippon Airways (ANA) has significantly boosted its earnings forecast for the current fiscal year, as a strong surge in demand accelerates its traffic recovery.

Cathay Pacific is resuming flying in Russian airspace, allowing it to use polar routes to reduce travel time on its flights from New York to Hong Kong.

China is the world’s only major air transport market to perform worse this year than in 2021, as Beijing has continued to impose COVID-19 restrictions. Continuous flash lockdowns in key cities have seen the big three state-owned carriers report a cumulative loss of CNY73.8 billion ($10.3 billion) for the first nine months of 2022, third-quarter (Q3) financial results show.