The Dubai-based airline is the largest customer of the Airbus A380, whose sheer size has made it particularly unviable to maintain during the pandemic.
Since mid-March, most jumbo jets have barely flown except on short hops to maintain pilots’ certifications, while many furloughs seem to be becoming permanent.
Keeping crew flight-ready is one of the main challenges carriers face during the unprecedented Covid crisis that keeps more than a third of the world’s fleet grounded.
Airbus decided to discontinue the A380 program as carriers looked to simplify fleets and upgrade fuel efficiency but airlines are also opting to retire it early.
Yusuf T Unjhawala’s argument that a secular and reform-oriented regime in Iran could be less prone to aligning with India’s adversaries raises some pertinent questions.
Both GBU-57 munition & B-2 stealth fighter is with America. Moreover, Israel does not have any aircraft in its inventory to carry out such a challenging mission.
Return to hyphenation is dreaded because our successive govts have laboured for three decades to rid us of what we see as the equivalence big powers used to draw between us and Pakistan. Three things follow.
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