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Comment: How COVID could make the travel industry more sustainable

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In this cross-posting with The Conversation, the University of Otago’s James Higham discusses the opportunity offered to governments to overhaul the travel and tourism industries amid the COVID-induced slow-down, to tackle the world’s second-biggest current crisis: climate change. The New Zealand Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s second tourism report urges the government to take advantage

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Finnair has ordered 19 Airbus A350-900s. (Finnair)

Finnair completes sale-and-leaseback agreement on A350, dismantles A319

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Finnair has announced it has finalised a sale-and-leaseback financing agreement for its latest Airbus A350 aircraft delivery with JLPS Holding Ireland. Under the new agreement with JLPS, Finnair will assign the purchase of the Airbus A350 aircraft to the third party, and then lease the aircraft back for its own operation. The aircraft is expected

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Air New Zealand ZK-NZE Boeing 787-9 crosses over Brisbane with contrails. (Michael Marston)

Planemaker backs Trump’s contentious emissions reforms

US planemaker Boeing has officially thrown its support behind contentious reforms over fuel efficiency standards in new airplanes finalised by the Trump administration in its final days. The standards outlined in the reforms have been largely criticised by a dozen US states as well as the new Biden administration as being too lenient, and largely

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Boeing update: Over 200 Dreamliners grounded over defects, UAE lifts MAX ban

The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued an airworthiness directive demanding inspection of over 200 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, after new defects were located. Wednesday’s directive was issued following reports of torn decompression panels in the bilge area, according to the regulator. The issue essentially pertains to the panels that separate the bottom of the passenger

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JetBlue pilots reject tentative agreement over American partnership

JetBlue pilots have rejected a tentative agreement that would have given the airline the ability to successfully complete its long-planned partnership with American Airlines without meeting previous contractual obligations to pilots. A statement released by the JetBlue pilot’s union, Air Line Pilots Association, stated that 53.7 per cent of pilots participating in the vote were

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Uptick in demand for converted 737 freighters

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It appears that airlines and aircraft lessors are throwing support behind Boeing 737-800 converted freighters, citing its ideal size, range and fuel-efficiency, as more carriers dabble in cargo. This week, Dublin-based aircraft lessor ASL Aviation Holdings confirmed that it would be exercising its options for 10 additional 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCFs), made following their

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