Air Canada has announced ambitious plans for its long-term commitment to advancing climate change. Canada’s flag-carrying airline has targeted 2050 as the year it will reach net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for global operations. In the mid-term, the carrier has set a target of reducing GHG emissions by 30% compared to 2019 levels by 2030
SITA, a leading IT provider to the air transport industry, is significantly expanding its Agile DevOps teams by over 55 people in Letterkenny, Ireland to develop the next generation of its highly successful SITA AT AIRPORTS portfolio. These new roles include software engineers, test engineers, UX designers, scrum masters, and product owners. As the air transport industry
Emirates and TAP Air Portugal have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to expand the codeshare partnership currently in place between both airlines. The new agreement will see customers of both airlines benefit from seamless connectivity on many new routes across the Americas, North Africa and East Asia. Emirates and TAP Air Portugal will also
The fleet of de-icing vehicles at Munich Airport has now received particularly powerful and environmentally friendly support: the all-electric “Elephant e-BETA” from the Danish manufacturer Vestergaard has been in use at EFM, the company contracted for de-icing and aircraft towing at Munich Airport. According to the manufacturer, the “Elephant e-BETA” is the first electric de-icing
American Airlines has reached an agreement in principle with Kuehne+Nagel to allocate a portion of the carbon reduction benefit the airline generates through its use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to the logistics company, one of American’s leading cargo customers. The agreement in principle is believed to be the largest SAF collaboration between a freight
The 16-year-old transatlantic trade war which has focussed heavily on planemakers Boeing and Airbus may be coming to a close with what has been described as a goodwill gesture after American President Joe Biden and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, agreed to suspend a range of existing tariffs between the two sides.
Airbus has announced that as a result of successful negotiations with IG Metall union and works council, which represents workers in Germany, no redundancies will be enforced in Germany before year-end 2023. As Airbus aims to implement a restructuring program which will affect 15,000 positions in its workforce, it will be looking to early retirements,
Demand for freighter aircraft continues to grow strongly as a result of Covid-19, but values and lease rates remain suppressed by an oversupply of feedstock aircraft, according to leading aviation industry consultant IBA. Since May 2020, almost 200 narrowbody and widebody aircraft have joined the worldwide freighter fleet, data from IBA’s Insight.iQ platform indicated during
ACI EUROPE, the association of the European airport industry, together with other leading European aviation associations have presented a strategy paper to the European Commission in Brussels, detailing the route by which all system partners – from airports and airlines through aerospace manufacturers all the way through to air traffic controllers – can work collectively
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released new analysis showing that the airline industry is expected to remain cash negative throughout 2021. Previous analysis (November 2020) indicated that airlines would turn cash positive in the fourth quarter of 2021. At the industry level, airlines are now not expected to be cash positive until 2022.
