Airports in Fujian, the province facing Taiwan, has seen mass cancellations of commercial flights as China goes into a “war-like” footing ahead of a highly controversial visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.
African carriers generate most of their revenues in weaker home currencies but incur their input costs, often including fuel, in US dollars and euros. Kamil Alawadhi, IATA’s regional vice president, Africa & Middle East offers his opinion.
Brazilian airline GOL is not enduring significant delivery delays in its Boeing 737 MAX fleet and expects to end the year with 44 of the narrowbodies in its fleet.
Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways has elevated its Executive Deputy General Director Nguyen Manh Quan to CEO after incumbent Dang Tat Thang resigned from the top job as well as that of chairman.
This is the summer of supply chain discontent in aerospace and defense, according to widespread laments by top executives in recent quarterly financial updates.
Crossover narrowbody jets (such as Embraer’s E-Jets and Airbus’s A220 pairing) have been using their distinguishing factor – the ability to create new city pairs – across North America, the mature market in question, for some years.
Automotive giant Volkswagen has joined the race to develop electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft, unveiling its passenger prototype July 29 with Volkswagen Group China.
