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Thai Airways is reactivating three Airbus A330s and two Boeing 777s ahead of the bustling summer travel season. The carrier is seeing strong need through July and August, with Europe appearing as the most-booked market for July and beyond.

In its 2022 Global Market Forecast, Airbus forecasts the demand for 39,490 new passenger and freighter aircraft over the next 20 years. The 2022 forecast is 470 aircraft over last year’s, which Airbus attributes to boosted demand for the new technology and fuel-efficient aircraft to replace older planes. The forecast is also positively impacted by 2021, an especially weak year for aviation, falling out of the 20-year forecast time.

The Kingfisher Airlines fiasco resumes haunting its owner and employees even a decade later. An Indian airline has gone from promising 5-star service to passengers to operating out of funds to pay its employees. Its owner, Vijay Mallya, who is now in the UK, is often in the information at court trials, and every time a new sentence is declared, he scratches the wounds of several former workers who are still waiting for their dues to be paid.

Air India is thinking about ordering 300 narrow-body aircraft, which would be one of the largest orders in the country’s commercial aviation history.

World2Meet, the Spanish tourist group division under the Iberostar Group, is jet-setting its long-haul airline off for broader destinations as World2Fly inaugurates flight operations between Madrid and Orlando. Interestingly, the inaugural flight service was only marketed as a package through travel agencies, specifically Spanish agency NewBlue.

India’s aviation industry is rapidly growing as airport operators and airlines increase capacity in response to the pandemic’s spike in travel.

Airbus SE is leading a competition against Boeing Co. over the potential sale of roughly 30 wide-body aircraft to Malaysia Airlines.

There was a big sigh of relief among Indian carriers, worried that the current export taxes on petroleum products would negatively affect flights leaving the country. The authorities have clarified that it has rolled back excise duty on aviation turbine fuel (ATF) operated for international operations.

There is a lot of “uninformed drivel” circulating on social media on matters relating to aviation safety, Jet Airways  CEO Sanjiv Kapoor stated, asking social media users to seek out ” reported, expert opinions” before concluding. “Don’t go by hearsay,” Mr. Kapoor tweeted.

As airlines across Europe grapple with employee lacks, lack of spare parts and overwhelming passenger requests, ACMI operator SmartLynx Airlines is stepping in to fill the gaps. We take a closer look at what SmartLynx has prepared this summer and why you could find yourself on an all-white aircraft rather than the branded plane you were expecting.