Sri Lanka’s ongoing fuel crisis resumes wreaking havoc across the country. National carrier SriLankan Airlines and international airlines have made drastic cuts to their schedule due to a shortage of jet fuel. We take a closer look at the situation below.
Airlines
Two Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft collided again at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Sunday night. The wings of the two aircraft were damaged due to the collision.
Airlines have very strict rules regarding pre-flight preparations so cabin crew has to plan well before to make sure they are on time. This may mean catching an earlier flight on standby (if commuting) or taking the before the bus to operate. Most airlines work on the 90-minute rule, so the cabin crew should aim to be there before that.
Airbus SE won one of its biggest-ever orders for 292 airliners worth more than $37 billion from four Chinese airlines, a coup for the European manufacturer as it tussles with Boeing Co. for dominance in Asia’s biggest economy.
Air Canada will cut dozens of daily flights this summer as the airline grapples with a series of challenges amid the soaring need for travel. The changes would see Air Canada reduce its schedule by 77 round trips — or 154 flights — on average, each day during July and August.
Air New Zealand will soon permit economy passengers to lie down and take a nap in communal, bunk bed-style sleeping pods on its planes, as it attempts to entice passengers onto its more than 17-hour ultra-long-haul flights.
AirAsia has one A330-300, registered 9M-VVA. The 7.5-year-old aircraft has 377 seats, with 365 in the economy (mainly in a 3-3-3 layout) and 12 in premium (not completely flat). As you’d expect, it was previously operated by AirAsia X (registered 9M-XXW). After serving with X until the summer of 2020, it entered AirAsia’s employment in December 2021.
As the Doha-based airline continues its unrelenting drive toward growth and development, the latest initiative to be declared is a codeshare deal with Airlink of South Africa. Let’s take a closer look at what this deal means for both carriers involved.
In a signal that Chinese President XI Jinping could be prepared to loosen the country’s vice-like grip on controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and maintaining its ‘dynamic zero’ policy, Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways is set to become the first international airline to resume direct flights with Beijing since the beginning of the pandemic.
Boeing is currently lagging behind on several of its projects. Dreamliner deliveries have been halted on orders from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the 777X program is running years after schedule, and the 737 MAX 7 and MAX 10 aircraft are still awaiting recertification.