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Airbus delivers most jets since pandemic by e-delivery

Bloomberg Airbus SE delivered more aircraft in September than any month this year, a victory in the European planemaker’s battle to keep factories running and revenue flowing amid a prolonged downturn in air travel. The tally of 57 jets, mostly single-aisle with a handful of long-range aircraft, compared with 39 handovers recorded in August, according to a statement. Still, Airbus ...

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Qantas Air ‘full-day’ flight to nowhere takes off

Bloomberg Qantas Airways launched a sight-seeing flight across Australia in the airline’s latest effort to contend with the impact of the pandemic on the tourism sector. The “full-day outing” from Sydney took off morning with 150 passengers and was scheduled to pass over some of the country’s key landmarks, including Uluru, the famed red sandstone monolith in the Northern Territory, ...

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China’s insistence ‘Taiwan isn’t a country’ starts backfiring

Bloomberg The more China tells the world that Taiwan isn’t a country, the more Beijing’s adversaries are starting to treat it like one. On Taiwan’s National Day, Beijing’s embassy in New Delhi was reported to have issued a letter telling India’s media not to refer to it as a country or to Tsai Ing-wen as its president. Indians responded by ...

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