The director-general of the International Air Transport Association has predicted that the post-pandemic airline industry will be smaller and more cautious than before, as the industry begins to look towards the future. Recently appointed Willie Walsh, who took over the top job at the agency from Alexandre de Juniac last month, also said airlines are
The head of Emirates, one of Boeing’s biggest customers, has again warned the US planemaker that it would refuse delivery of 777X jets if they fall short of contractual performance commitments. In an interview broadcast on Monday, President Tim Clark said he had not received any performance details of the jet’s engines so far even
Global airlines and international organisations have expressed outrage over the deliberate diversion of a Ryanair flight from Lithuania to neighbouring Belarus on Sunday, which resulted in the arrest of a political journalist. Reports suggest that Belarusian authorities flagged a false bomb threat onboard Ryanair flight 4978 bound for Lithuania, and sent a fighter jet to
Boeing is ambitiously planning to ramp up its production output of the 737 MAX to 42 jets per month by Q3 2022, according to sources close to the matter. The move is intended to mark the end of the planemaker’s battle on two fronts, following the COVID-19 pandemic and a years-long PR disaster following two
US start-up carrier Breeze Airways is banking on the imminent introduction of additional range capacity for the Airbus A220-300, announced in March. The new range capacity is merely a “paper change” – the result of Airbus locating an “additional margin availability” – according to vice-president of single-aisle marketing Antonio Da Costa, and will come into
Airbus is moving to close its Puerto Real factory in Spain as a part of its post-COVID recovery plan, in what would be the planemaker’s first major factory closure in the company’s 50-year history. The European planemaker is in discussions with unions to combine operations with its nearby Bay of Cadiz facility, which currently focuses
