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IATA’s chief economist shares the latest forecast data and insights on where the global airline industry is headed through 2023.

Listen in as Aviation Week editors report from the Airbus Summit in Toulouse.

Juan Carlos Zuazua explains how the Mexican ULCC has accelerated its growth since the pandemic, taking advantage of the increasing appetite for low-cost air travel in its home market and the demise of other operators.

Editors discuss why ALPA and other unions feel it’s the right time to demand significant pay increases and work terms.

Aviation Week editors at the AAPA AGM in Bangkok discuss the growing optimism across the region’s airlines and airports.

Aviation Week editors are skeptical of CEO Dave Calhoun’s new commercial airliner timeline.

How this nonprofit links airline resources to humanitarian organizations in crises worldwide.

Airline execs gathered at the AACO AGM in Abu Dhabi to discuss the pandemic recovery, sustainability and technology.

Airline CEOs have been in Las Vegas this week for Routes World 2022. Aviation Week Network's team on the ground discuss their key takeaways from the event, including a bullish outlook for some carriers, particularly ULCCs, and why certain markets appear ripe for consolidation.

ATW and CAPA editors discuss the restructurings, mergers and startups that are changing the Latin American air transport market.

Pushed by the drive for sustainability, novel propulsion systems that until relatively recently seemed years away are quickly coming into focus.

Will the United Nations' aviation organization back airlines’ call for a carbon net-zero goal by 2050?

Passenger traffic has rebounded strongly during the northern summer season, but airlines are approaching the winter months with renewed caution.

Nobody wanted a twin-aisle. Now there may not be enough of them. Listen in to find out why.

Getting across Africa by air is so difficult that passengers often have to detour via Europe, but there is now a renewed push to make African air transport liberalization a reality.

A discussion on the groundbreaking announcement that United and Emirates are working together.

As the aerospace industry gathers in Montreal, the challenges of getting to net-zero are laid bare.

Latest numbers show solid performances across the air cargo sector, but economic headwinds are slowing down demand. Has the cargo surge peaked?

Aviation Week editors Jens Flottau, Guy Norris and Sean Broderick discuss scenarios and future challenges.

Low-cost carriers are huge in Europe and the UK. How are they faring as inflation, sky-high oil prices, airport disruptions and the war in Ukraine affect their costs and operations?

Program managers are in the middle of the maelstrom, wrestling with issues many have never dealt with in their careers. Aviation Week editors discuss what they heard at the 2022 Program Excellence Evaluation Team meeting in August.

As more COVID-related travel restrictions lift, airlines and airports across Asia-Pacific are seeing demand return. And they are also looking to new markets as China adheres to its zero-COVID policy.

Nearly two decades after the Concorde was retired, is the rival of supersonic air travel for real?

What will these two U.S. airlines look like as a single operation; and how hard will it be to get it through regulatory approval?

FAA okay to re-start deliveries ends a long saga, but now Boeing has a new problem to worry about. Listen in as our specialists break down the situation—and the numbers.