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The Airbus A380 — regarded as the long-haul, flagship aircraft in the Qantas fleet — was initially planned to be returned home in Australia by mid-December and prepared for operations in the next year. As Australia accelerates its reopening, Qantas wants to further cut the superjumbos’ hibernation period and get them back into the skies […]

The U.S. domestic market’s passenger numbers have returned to levels very close to those experienced before the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. Traffic still remains more leisure-driven and the heavy limitations that are still stifling demand on international routes affect traffic flows throughout the networks of all major U.S. carriers. For these reasons, […]

For the aviation industry in Singapore, the effects of the Covid-19 were certainly slightly devastatingly felt, even for well-awarded flag carrier Singapore Airlines and its sister low-cost subsidiary Scoot. The lack of a domestic market, alongside the prolonged grounding of the majority of its fleet, had the aviation industry in Singapore crippled, with the various […]

In a further easing of travel restrictions, the Canadaian government has announced that an additional eight of the country’s airports can receive international travellers from Nov. 30. Those joining the 10 airports currently receiving international arrivals will be St. John’s International, John C. Munro Hamilton International, Region of Waterloo International, Regina International, Saskatoon John G. […]

The re-opening of international borders has re-allowed the influx of business and leisure travellers, and slowly but surely, passengers travelling for religious significance are allowed as well. In mid-October, the Prophet Mosque for Medina announced the suspension of social distancing requirements and has since allowed for full-capacity attendance. Additionally, non-resident travellers flying to Saudi Arabia […]

Over 3,000 Portuguese passengers were affected this week with the cancellation of 16 flights of Ryanair connecting Portugal to Morocco. The cancellations were triggered by the country’s civil aviation regulator – the National Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC) — since it did not provide the licenses for the operations in time. These are new routes between […]

Alaska Airlines has announced a partnership with California-based ZeroAvia to develop a hydrogen-electric powertrain. The new engine will be installed on a De Havilland Q400, operated by Alaska’s wholly-owned subsidiary Horizon Air. Alaska and ZeroAvia will work together to modify one of ZeroAvia’s existing powertrains to a new ZA2000 engine family that will be able […]

A number of months back in May 2021, ANA Holdings Inc. said that it was initially predicted to see a net profit for the year lasting through March 2022. The earlier prediction came as Japan was hosting the Summer 2020 Tokyo Olympics and also as vaccinations rates were rolling relatively well worldwide, citing as signs […]

Ever since the news came about of Australia’s borders being re-opened to international travelers from November onwards, several airlines – such as Hawaiian Airlines and Singapore Airlines, as well as national carrier Qantas – have made scheduled changes in their network for flight service resumptions in and out of Australia. The resumption and anticipation for […]

As of Oct. 28, 108.8 million seats have been scheduled to fly into and out of all airports in the Aena (Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea) network — a group of airports in Spain owned by operator Aena — representing an increase of 4.2% compared to the offering for the same period in 2019, before […]