Pakistan announced on Tuesday to reopen its airspace with immediate effect for civil aviation after over four-month long blockage following military tension with neighboring India, local media reported.

Grounded Boeing 737 MAX planes are unlikely to restart carrying passengers until 2020 as it will take time to fix flight-control software and complete other work, government and industry officials have said.

On October 1, 2019, Wizz Air, the European low-cost airline, will launch scheduled service between St. Petersburg and London, the capital of the United Kingdom. The daily flights from Pulkovo Airport to London Luton Airport will be operated by a subsidiary airline Wizz Air UK.

Delta Air Lines to take 20 carbon-neutral new aircraft deliveries from the Airbus final assembly line in Mobile, Ala.

The United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) session on "Review of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) implementation and interrelations among goals: Discussion on SDG 13 - Climate Action" was held at the UN headquarters in New York on July 12, local time. Due to the cooperation between Xiamen Airlines and the United Nations on SDGs, Xiamen Airlines, as the sole Chinese business representative, was invited to join this session as a leading discussant by the President of ECOSOC. Mr. Zhao Dong, Chairman of Xiamen Airlines, participated in it. He shared Xiamen Airlines' sustainable development practices, summarized the valuable experience in energy conservation and emission reduction, and expressed the gritty determination to diffuse the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) globally in the discussion. What he said was well received by the guests present and was highly rated as an excellent Private Sector representative practicing sustainable development. As the overriding part in HLPF, the session was moderated by Ovais Sarmad, Deputy Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC. High-level officials including the Special Envoy of the 2019 Climate Summit, president of COP-25, and Executive Secretary of ESCWA attended the meeting and gave speeches.

A ceremony marking the launch of the first direct flight connecting Central China and New York City was held in downtown Manhattan on Thursday.

British Airways announced on Wednesday it will move all its services to Beijing to the newly built Beijing Daxing International Airport.

An Air Canada flight Thursday morning was forced to divert to Honolulu, capital of US Hawaii, after suffering turbulence, local media reported, adding that dozens of people were injured in the incident.

Wuhan on Wednesday launched the first direct flight connecting Central China and New York in the United States.

The new gigantic star-shaped Beijing Daxing International Airport, due to open by Sept 30, will have its domestic and international departure halls stacked vertically. This is the first such design among global airports, and will offer passengers more convenient and faster check-in and transfer services, its designer said on Tuesday.