While European household and company budgets continue to get squeezed by high inflation, demand for business travel and summer getaways in particular has remained robust.

The new contract raises the standard for contract negotiations underway at other large U.S. airlines.

Unloved during the pandemic with their business paralyzed almost overnight, airlines that cut back to survive the crisis are now blowing through profit forecasts and luring back investors.

Boeing plans to launch mainland Chinese flights to Beijing and Shanghai and to Osaka in central Japan, according to the company’s website.

One of the worst near-disasters in U.S. history, pilots of an Air Canada flight from Toronto to San Francisco missed a notice about a closed airport runway buried in 27 pages of Notams and other bulletins.

The proceedings mean that, for the first time, the company will be formally charged in court in relation to the two crashes, and will have to plead guilty or not guilty.

Regional airports are benefitting as manufacturers and logistics middlemen look for faster paths to factories.

Demand for air cargo has cooled, with the sector projected to slow down further this year.

One factor working in China’s favor is that unlike Western carriers, airlines in China have largely continued to operate their fleets domestically throughout.