All In Depth – Page 12
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Start-up Northern Pacific aims to bring Icelandair model to transpacific travel
Northern Pacific Airlines, a start-up being incubated in the high north, looks to become Alaska’s Icelandair.
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Southeast Asia warms to the idea of (finally) opening up
Southeast Asian countries continue to see a gradual reinstatement of air travel, as vaccination rates rise and governments eye valuable tourism dollars.
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Flight International Letters, November 2021
Your views about the aerospace industry and our reporting
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Why aviation’s compass is shifting towards True navigation
The aviation sector’s increasingly outdated use of magnetic navigation could be heading for the exit, with Canada championing a Mag2True adjustment, targeted for 2030
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Airline Business Covid-19 recovery tracker: October 2021 update
Our regular examination of the latest global data for several key airline market indicators, including traffic and capacity in passenger and cargo markets, in-service and stored fleets, jet fuel costs, and share price trends for the world’s largest groups.
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HMS Queen Elizabeth opens new era of UK airpower in Asia-Pacific
FlightGlobal caught up with HMS Queen Elizabeth during a short port call in Singapore, following its extensive deployment in North Asia as part of the Carrier Strike Group 21 deployment
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World Airline Rankings: No region left unscathed by crisis
While some Asia-Pacific operators benefited from access to large domestic markets and strong freight activity, international operators in the region were among the hardest hit in terms of reduced passenger traffic.
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World Airline Rankings: Hard hit low-cost carriers lead recovery efforts
Paradoxically, low-cost carriers have been among both the hardest hit and best positioned to counter the pandemic.
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World Airline Rankings: How crisis slashed revenues and drove industry to the red
Revenue among the 100 biggest airline groups was slashed by more than half last year, from $787 billion in 2019 to $364 billion for the same group of operators.
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World Airline Rankings: Passenger traffic slides two-thirds in 2020
Passenger traffic among the 100 biggest airline groups collapsed by almost two-thirds in 2020, the World Airline Rankings show.
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World Airline Rankings: How deeply the crisis hit the industry in 2020
While cargo offered some relief, the latest FlightGlobal World Airline Rankings underline just how bad 2020 got for the airlne industry
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IATA’s annual event brings wave of optimism, glimmer of normality
Airline leaders left IATA’s World Air Transport Summit this week in a buoyant mood, sensing the industry’s worst days are behind it, and that normalcy is months, not years, away. They also left having made firm commitments to reduce carbon output, saying the industry is emerging from the pandemic-driven aviation downturn with invigorated dedication to environmental stewardship. Exactly how airlines will significantly cut carbon, however, remains unclear.
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VoltAero chief Botti details in-service path for hybrid Cassio family
Jean Botti, the founder and chief executive of VoltAero, is juggling design, production, the acquisition of launch customers and investment as his firm pursues an aggressive timeline to bring the all-new Cassio 330, a hybrid-electric, four- to five-seater, ready for service entry by the end of 2023. Source: ...
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Flight International Letters, October 2021
Your views about the aerospace industry and our reporting
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US airlines recruit to beat pilot ‘re-shortage’
A year and a half after Covid-19 wiped out the pilot shortage, the industry is once again wondering where it will find the flight crew to accommodate the rapid, uneven rebound to pre-pandemic levels and beyond.
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How UK plans to lead the way with Reaper successor
The UK Royal Air Force has laid out its ambition to be at the forefront of international operations with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems’ MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted air system, after signing Belgium as its first training partner for the type.
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Airline Business Index scores industry at two-thirds of pre-Covid size
The latest quarterly Airline Business Index shows the global airline industry reached exactly two-thirds of its pre-crisis size at the mid-point of 2021.
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Why the UK Space Command has skyrocketing ambitions
Among the organisational changes made by the UK Ministry of Defence since the last DSEI show in September 2019, the establishment of a dedicated Space Command is one of the most significant recent developments.