Air Transport

Airbus has given Ethiopian Airlines Group an award for the unique agility and resilience that it displayed amid the COVID-19 global crisis.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) renewed its call on governments to ensure that employees in the aviation sector are considered as essential workers during the impending COVID-19 vaccine campaign, once health care workers and vulnerable groups have been protected.

Addressing the ICAO Global Symposium on the Implementation of Innovation in Aviation today, ICAO’s leaders highlighted the sector’s high reliance on innovation to address pandemic recovery and future sustainability.

The Covid-19 pandemic could prove to be an opportunity for aviation entrepreneurs and one company in The Gambia has firm plans in place.

Air cargo operators are gearing up to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine while fighting to overcome a capacity shortage.

Major transit hubs have proven to be particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 crisis as connectivity falls apart.

Despite the pandemic, the industry continued to make progress in sustainability, space, aviation safety and more.

The Boeing-Airbus duopoly cannot count on widebody sales anytime soon, so their hope is to get narrowbody production back to normal.

Four and half years since the Brexit referendum and aerospace is no nearer to understanding what the UK’s future trading relationship with its nearest and largest trading partner will look like.

DHL took delivery of another EFW-converted A330-300F (1124; ex-Hong Kong) with Trent 700s.

Amos Kazzaz to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Air Canada (effective February 15).

Transat AT shareholders voted Dec. 15 to approve a revised takeover bid from Air Canada, marking a key step forward for the planned acquisition of Canada’s third-largest airline.

AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS) was selected by Star Alliance to deploy all of its IT infrastructure on the cloud to reduce costs, improve performance and

The Dec. 15 news that US President-elect Joe Biden will nominate former election rival Pete Buttigieg to be US Transportation Secretary will likely be met with a slightly quizzical “interesting” by those in Washington DC aviation circles.

TRANSAT received overwhelming shareholder approval for amended deal to be acquired by AIR CANADA (SPNWS; Oct 16).

Among the few differences between the FAA and some regulators on the Boeing 737 MAX’s re-entry into airline schedules is how pilots should be empowered to handle an erroneous stick-shaker stall-warning.

UPS acquired MD-1F (48782; parked in San Antonio, TX) from Lufthansa Cargo and now has 40 MD-11Fs.

CHINA AIRLINES, Taiwan took delivery of its first (66890) of six 777Fs, becoming the 20th operator of 777F.

Outgoing IATA director general and CEO Alexandre de Juniac has indicated that further slot-rule waivers may no longer be needed once traffic stabilizes at 60-70% of 2019 levels.

STARLUX AIRLINES, Taiwan plans in 2021 to begin daily Taipei-Los Angeles (A350-900).

ETIHAD AIRWAYS placed the 787-10 ecoDemonstrator (60768) into service, and now operates 39 787s; aircraft was used as a flying testbed to accelerate

FEDEX EXPRESS took delivery of the first factory-built ATR 72-600F (1653) from ATR; ASL AIRLINES will operate aircraft.

ALTA members flew 22.1b RPKs in October, down 68.4% vs October 2019; capacity fell 62.6% to 32b ASKs; enplanements were down 62.3%.

December is shaping up to be the weakest air travel month in the U.S. since August, as rising COVID-19 case counts and new government restrictions threaten to undo the modest demand improvement seen during the 2020 third quarter.

IATA has renewed its call for governments to ensure that aviation-sector employees are counted among the essential workers who will receive COVID-19 vaccines early.