The Utah-based airline remains Brazilian manufacturer Embraer’s largest customer, and all 16 of the aircraft are scheduled to enter into service from the beginning of 2022.
According to aviation specialist OAG, Chinese airline capacity dropped 32 per cent in one week from the outbreak, which began at the end of July.
The time-lapse video shows the X-59’s wing, tail and fuselage being merged together from March 2019 to June 2021, and was likely shot at Lockheed’s Skunk Works in California.
The NAA, the oldest not-for-profit aviation organisation in the United States, will award the winner a trophy on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington.
The deal will include Azul purchasing 220 of Lilium’s jets, the single largest eVTOL (air taxi) order in the start-up company’s history.
The increasing spread of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus has alarmed carriers to make the change as Frontier was the first airline to report “softening” bookings since the outbreak.
