As Airbus suppliers in France strive to keep pace with the A320 ramp-up they’ve committed to and prepare for further production rate increases, hiring tops their list of concerns.
The latest relaxation of entry requirements should further stimulate India's international traffic, the recovery of which has already been outpacing most other countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Air France-KLM said it would repay €1 billion ($998 million) of the €3.5 billion outstanding on the French state-backed loan that helped it through the coronavirus pandemic.
All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines have ramped up their international capacity plans from November onward, following the latest steps by the government to relax entry requirements.
Rather than release an updated standard that meaningfully moves the needle on airline refunds during a continued stretch of industrywide operational challenges, the DOT appears to want to to codify bare minimum expectations.