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InterviewTurkish Airlines fast-tracks return to growth path
Turkish Airlines chairman Ahmet Bolat believes that retaining staff and its strong financial performance through the pandemic has been key to enabling to return to growth as the Istanbul carrier has already passed pre-crisis activity levels.vels.
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Kenya Airways chief keeps eyes on restructuring but sees growth from 2024
Kenya Airways chief executive Allan Kilavuka sees an opportunity to return to growth in 2024, as it focuses in the near-term on implementing a restructuring aimed at securing a sustainable cost base.
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Relaunched SAA set to take next step
Having relaunched operations in September last year after an 18-month grounding, South African Airways (SAA) is expanding its operations as it capitalises on the recent collapse of local carrier Comair. The South African carrier is increasing capacity on domestic and regional routes, and was in Doha at the recent IATA ...
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How New York Air National Guard chief went from P-3s to Skibirds
As the first woman to command the USA’s largest Air National Guard unit, Brigadier General Denise Donnell wants to use her position to inspire anyone to follow their aviation dream
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Royal Air Maroc chief sets sights on growth after ‘transformation’ during crisis
Royal Air Maroc is preparing to issue a tender for 22 aircraft as it turns its attentions to developing a growth strategy following what chief executive Abdelhamid Addou describes as the carrier’s ’big transformation’ during the Covid crisis.
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Walsh sees airline industry capable of recovering financial strength
IATA director general Willie Walsh expects that despite continued Covid headwinds, as well as fresh operational and cost pressures, leaders assemble in Doha for the association’s AGM ready to look beyond the pandemic
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How SAF, offsetting and tackling plastics are key to progressing IATA’s sustainability vision
While securing a resolution that committed airlines globally to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 at last year’s AGM underpins the industry’s decarbonisation efforts, it marked only a first step in translating ambition to reality. “After the political statement, the pathway started,” explains Sebastian Mikosz, vice-president of environment and sustainability at ...
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IATA chief economist on the changing factors impacting airline profit hopes
Conventional wisdom would suggest that surging fuel costs, combined with a slowing in global GDP growth and the inflationary squeeze on household incomes could only mean one thing for airline fortunes. Yet after two pandemic years in which international flying, if possible at all, has been cumbersome and at the ...
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Boeing’s new defence chief eyes autonomy frontier
Ted Colbert, the new head of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, stands poised to lead his organisation in a decade where the emphasis is decidedly shifting from specific platforms to networked assets and the new frontier of autonomy.
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How Western Air’s Sherrexcia Rolle helps the family business fly
For Sherrexcia Rolle, the path to the airline C-suite began as a child on Andros Island, helping out at the airport where her parents established the Bahamas’ now thriving Western Air.
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Espen Hoiby back rebuilding crew resource firm but with eye on electric future
OSM Aviation built a pioneering crew resourcing model only for the pandemic to decimate the airline sector. Now rebranded as AAP, its founder is back at the helm and plotting not just a swift rebuidling of the business, but an opportunity for further disruption to traditional models with the arrival of electric aircraft
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Canada delays operational capacity for new search and rescue fleet up to four years
The Canadian armed forces’ new fleet of 16 Airbus Defence & Space CC-295 Kingfisher search and rescue aircraft may not reach initial operating capacity until 2026.
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Willie Walsh on the airline sector’s route to recovery and a sustainable future
A year since taking the helm at IATA, the former IAG chief is keeping the pressure on regulators and suppliers not to derail airlines’ journeys out of the depths of the pandemic and on to profitability, while supporting the industry’s move to the front foot in tackling its environmental challenges
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Ryanair’s director of sustainability on SAF, Max, offsets and ensuring ‘the polluter pays’
European low-cost giant Ryanair has not always been known for its commitment to environment issues, but group chief executive Michael O’Leary’s conversion to the cause in recent years has come alongside an effort to put sustainability at the forefront of its strategy.
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LATAM Airlines Group’s sustainability chief on targets, collaboration and SAF progress
When your airline group is based in a region that has natural resources sometimes described as the “lungs of the world”, the imperative to act on climate change is keenly felt.
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Finnair sustainability chief on why airline's action on climate-change is 'in our DNA'
The Finnish flag carrier has openly discussed sustainability for longer than many of its peers – and plans to reach net-zero CO2 emissions a full five years ahead of the global industry, in 2045.
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Icelandair chief on Covid recovery, Max jets, 757s, cargo and competition
With the group restructured during the pandemic, Icelandair under Bogi Nils Bogason is emerging as a streamlined, aviation-focused business with a decision ahead on its future fleet
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Spohr sees CO2 savings argument key to Single European Sky breakthrough
Lufthansa Group chief executive and this year’s Airlines for Europe (A4E) chair, Carsten Spohr, believes the industry needs to focus on the potential CO2 savings in pressing European governments for air traffic management reform.
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Air Baltic chief on Ukraine solidarity, Russia exit, airspace closures and IPO plans
Martin Gauss is running an airline based in a country – and operating from two others – whose proximity to Russia in geographical and historical terms heightens both the emotional and, in some cases, practical effects of the conflict.
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Why RAAF C-17 pilot Caitlin Rytenskild is flying high in mentoring role
Flight Lieutenant Caitlin Rytenskild is putting her years of experience captaining Boeing C-17 transports to good use while training future pilots for the Royal Australian Air Force.
