EgyptAir launched on Saturday the first air flight fueled by sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), in collaboration with Neste MY company, transporting a delegation attending COP27, according to an official statement on November 4. Minister of Civil Aviation’s climate change strategy aims to transform the aviation sector to become eco-friendly, civil aviation minister Mohammed Abbas said. The Dreamliner Boeing 787-900 plane transported a delegation attending COP27 from Paris to Sharm El-Sheikh. It is worth noting that the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) takes place in Sharm El-Sheikh from November 6th to 18th.<br/>
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EVA Air, a Taiwanese airline company has started operating four flights a week from Taipei to Munich in Germany for the first time. The airline will use the Boeing 787-9 aircraft, which will take off from Munich on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays to the Taiwanese metropolis. Munich Airport CEO Jost Lammers said: “We welcome EVA Air as a new star in the Munich sky. EVA Air complements our diverse Asian offering, especially with its excellent transfer connections. The launch of the new operations between Taipei and Munich expands our intercontinental network and is also a positive sign for the continuous recovery of traffic at Munich Airport.” Since 2013, EVA Air has been a member of Star Alliance and currently operates its flights in five other European cities – London, Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna and Milan. The Taiwanese carrier serves 68 destinations across four continents, with its 90 aircraft fleet, of which nearly two-thirds are long-haul jets. Featuring a special ‘Hello Kitty’ livery, its maiden German flight was operated by a Boeing 777.<br/>
Singapore Airlines (SIA) wants to continue adding capacity on its path to rebuild its network, but faces regulatory constraints for resuming services to some countries. China is the country where SIA faces the most notable entry constraints, but there are others as well, says Lee Lik Hsin, the carrier’s executive vice president, commercial. “China is one geographic region, and there are others like that as well, where we may not be able to add as many flights as we want,” he says, without elaborating further. Lee made the remarks during an analysts presentation following the release of SIA’s half-year results for its 2022/23 financial year, covering the six months ended 30 September. The carrier posted a record operating profit during the period following governments’ lifting of travel restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic. Still, the SIA Group was able to beef up its China network in the second quarter, including SIA’s addition of twice-weekly services to Beijing and weekly services to Shenzhen. Scoot also resumed weekly flights to Fuzhou, and increased frequencies to Nanjing to twice weekly. Separately, SIA has announced that has resumed code sharing with Virgin Australia. Virgin Australia will place its code on SIA flights to 42 destinations, while SIA will place its code on 64 Virgin domestic routes in Australia. More codeshare flights will be added subject to regulatory approval.<br/>