The World of Aviation

Airbus reported 611 deliveries in 2021, an 8 per cent increase from the previous year, and Boeing reported 340 deliveries. 

In a staff memo, Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby said that 3,000 employees are infected with the virus, and in one day alone at Newark, almost one-third of the company’s workforce called in sick.

The first Airbus A220 is set to begin its transformation into an executive hotel in the sky after the European planemaker delivered the jet to Swiss refitters Comlux.

Reports said the deal, which would be worth $5 billion at list price, came after fierce competition to instead purchase the European planemaker’s A220.

Airbus received 664 jet orders compared to rival Boeing’s 476, after the European planemaker secured a flurry of late deals.

Cathay Pacific has dropped multiple international flights for the rest of the month continuing to January as Hong Kong maintains a stringent zero-COVID strategy. Only weeks after resuming several flights into Australia, the airline has cancelled all but two flights a week to Sydney throughout January, dropping from two a day. Flights to Melbourne, Brisbane