Helvetic Airways has opened a new operating base EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, while Eurowings is targeting Northern European winter tourism destinations from December.
The Star Alliance member has announced route resumptions to the final two destinations in its pre-COVID U.S. network, one of which will be its first scheduled service with the Airbus A321LR.
Lufthansa Technik, working with the City of Hamburg and other German partners, plans to modify an Airbus A320 to test maintenance and ground-handling procedures for liquid-hydrogen-powered aircraft. Operation of the demonstrator is planned to begin in 2022.
Charged with enabling zero-emission transatlantic flight within a generation, the UK’s Jet Zero Council has launched a competition designed to demonstrate how airport upgrades could enable the introduction of electric- and hydrogen-powered aircraft.
The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) will follow through on a proposal to mandate fee refunds for customers whose bags are significantly late, a White House spokesman confirmed.
London Heathrow Airport plans to re-open Terminal 3 for normal passenger operations in anticipation of higher traffic flows in the second half of the year.