Airlines are hoping the G7 summit in Cornwall, England, and the U.S./EU summit in Brussels will lead to North Atlantic travel corridors being put in place. 

The South African government has selected Takatso Consortium as the preferred strategic equity partner to take a majority 51% stake in South African Airways (SAA).

The move comes a week after Portugal was removed from the UK green list and no further countries were added.

The timing of the move has drawn criticism from the CEO of Smartwings Group who also bemoaned that Eurowings’ parent Lufthansa had received state aid from Germany while his group had not received any from the Czech government.

United Airlines is creating a new corporate venture fund geared toward innovation and sustainability, the latest example of the carrier’s commitment to embrace new technologies in aviation.

European airline CEOs sounded an optimistic note for the summer season as they called on EU governments to proceed with a coordinated relaxing of travel restrictions to allow pent-up demand to translate into ticket sales.  

The IATA Travel Pass will go live “within weeks,” as the airline representative body attempts to breathe life back into the international travel sector.

Aviation industry executives from some key Asian markets are seeing very little progress in rebuilding demand due to the latest coronavirus outbreaks, and momentum is likely to be slow to return in the near term.