Emissions figures for Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways are mostly in line with other full-service carriers, but unlike those carriers, are not trending downward.
As the world grapples with climate change and travel rebounds globally following the COVID-19 pandemic, the aviation industry is at an inflection point.
Emirates plans to reveal further orders taking fleet plans into the 2030s, but new players like Riyadh Air and a revived Indian aviation sector are emerging.
Expanding on an existing commercial partnership, Air France-KLM and Etihad are looking to collaborate on areas such as passenger operations and maintenance.
Etihad Engineering has completed a six-year heavy maintenance check on the first of four Airbus A380s it is returning to service on the Abu Dhabi-London route.
Prolonged storage in certain conditions can exacerbate cracking in material used in A380 wing structures, Airbus says. And the company is working to rectify it.