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Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) executive director Haldane Dodd, speaking at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit - Airlines in Transition, stated (24-Apr-2026) "As an industry, we've actually done an extraordinary thing of working out how we can meet our climate change obligations and what the process is to get there". Mr Dodd continued: "We [aviation] are always seen as a hard-to-abate sector, one of the seven hard-to-abate sectors, along with shipping, steel, concrete and so forth. However, we do have a plan in place. So, even though we are hard-to-abate, even though we've got massive challenges in getting to net zero, actually, we've got a lot of the fundamental agreements in place already". He said: "I think the key question for us now is how do we scale up and accelerate the action that we need to take, the SAF scale up, as well as technology and so forth, in order to get to where we need to go. And a lot of that stuff is not something that we can control ourselves as industry. We are going to need to have support from governments, from the energy sector, from the finance community and so forth". [more - CAPA TV]

SalamAir CEO Adrian Hamilton-Manns, speaking at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit - Airlines in Transition, stated (23-Apr-2026) covering additional fuel costs is nothing to do with access to state funding. Mr Hamilton-Manns said: "The airline is expected to stand on its own. So we're funding this through increased pricing. We're applying a carrier surcharge for passengers to offset some of the fuel. We're swallowing the other part of It. We intend obviously to recover it over the coming months". [more - CAPA TV]

Air Congo opened (06-May-2026) reservations for five times weekly Kinshasa-Brussels service, scheduled to commence on 01-Jul-2026. The airline will operate the service with Boeing 787-8 equipment sourced from Ethiopian Airlines. Brussels will be Air Congo's first intercontinental destination. [more - Aviation Week]

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, via its official website, announced (06-May-2026) plans to extend the suspension of services to Dubai, Riyadh and Dammam until 28-Jun-2026.

Berlin Brandenburg Airport CEO Aletta von Massenbach, speaking at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit - Airlines in Transition, outlined (23-Apr-2026) the need for discipline when managing an airport with "costly infrastructure". Ms von Massenbach stated: "It's about discipline and, when it comes to operating it, looking into each and every cent, where we can save money". Ms von Massenbach added: "We only marginally increased our airport charges since the opening five years ago, and we all know what it meant in terms of inflation, wage costs, and we absorbed nearly all of it". [more - CAPA TV]

IATA, via its official website, announced (May-2026) Riyadh Air became an IATA member. Riyadh Air is the sixth airline to become an IATA member in 2026.