Starting in Chicago, with the World Cup on the horizon: Earlier this week, flight LH434 took off from Frankfurt Airport with the German men’s national soccer team on board, en route to the 2026 World Cup in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. As the official airline of the German men’s national soccer team, Lufthansa bid the team farewell with an exclusive departure event at the new Lufthansa Group Hangar One Congress and Visitor Center.

In celebration of World Environment Day on 5 June, Emirates is highlighting the significant impact of its closed-loop recycling programme, first launched in June 2023. Over the past year, the airline has repurposed more than 88,000 kilograms of plastic from Economy Class inflight meal service items, transforming them into new products for use onboard.

Africa and the Middle East occupy a peculiar place in global aviation. One is home to some of the world’s most powerful connecting hubs, the other remains one of the least connected regions on earth. Yet at this year’s IATA Annual General Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, the two were presented less as separate stories than as adjoining chapters in the same strategic question: where will aviation’s next phase of growth come from, and what will it take to unlock it?

When the airline industry’s leaders last gathered in Rio de Janeiro for an IATA Annual General Meeting in 1999, Latin American aviation occupied a very different place in the global system. At the time, the region accounted for just 4% of global air traffic and carried around 68 million passengers annually. Its airlines were largely domestic champions, operating fragmented networks with limited international reach. LAN and TAM, the two carriers that would eventually merge to create LATAM Airlines Group, operated separately, carrying a combined 12 million passengers with fleets totalling just over 100 aircraft.

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The mood around European aviation at the IATA Annual General Meeting in Rio de Janeiro is one of cautious optimism tempered by growing frustration. Airlines are preparing for another busy summer. Passenger demand remains strong. Aircraft are full. Airports are crowded. Yet beneath the surface, many of the industry’s biggest challenges are becoming more acute rather than disappearing. Speaking at the AGM, IATA’s Regional Vice President for Europe, Rafael Schvartzman, painted a picture of an industry squeezed from multiple directions. Geopolitical instability, rising fuel prices, border delays, taxation, sustainability costs and airport charges are all converging at a time when Europe is attempting to maintain its competitiveness in an increasingly connected global marketplace.