Aviation Briefing: Alex Macheras

Aviation Briefing: Alex Macheras

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May 11: Why Aviation is in Crisis As Pandemic Recovery Continues, African Airlines Unite Over Fuel Struggles, Airbus-Boeing, & More

May 11: Why Aviation is in Crisis As Pandemic Recovery Continues, African Airlines Unite Over Fuel Struggles, Airbus-Boeing, & More

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May 11, 2022
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May 11: Why Aviation is in Crisis As Pandemic Recovery Continues, African Airlines Unite Over Fuel Struggles, Airbus-Boeing, & More
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Hello, here’s your Aviation Briefing for Wednesday 11 May 2022

For well over a decade, airlines and aircraft manufacturers have worked together to squeeze as many passenger seats into the cabin as possible. In fact, dedicated projects that took place over several years would redesign, reconfigure, and adjust passenger cabins to ensure every centimetre of the passenger cabin was accounted for, after all – it’s a seated fare-paying-passenger that makes the airline money, almost everything else is merely an overhead. 

But now, at the start of the summer season in Europe, low-cost airline easyJet — who for years have been rigorously focused maximising the number of passengers in the cabin — has confirmed the airline will begin ripping out seats from its Airbus A319 fleet as part of a strategy to cut the number of cabin crew it needs on each flight. 

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