By Alfred Chua2021-04-30T09:41:00+01:00
All Nippon Airways’ (ANA) parent company expects to swing back to profitability for the current business year, on the back of air travel recovery helped by an improving global economy and vaccine rollouts.
In its earnings release, ANA Holdings says the ongoing global inoculation drive will help contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
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ANA’s transformation will see sharply few large jets operated.
“Based on data from countries where vaccination has progressed, it appears that the spread of Covid-19 can be contained, which will lead to greater passenger confidence to fly and a recovery in air transport demand,” the group states.
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All Nippon Airways’ (ANA) parent company has completed initial medical drone delivery trials as it works toward establishing a commercial delivery network in Japan by 2022. The flights used Wingcopter’s 120-km-range (75 mi.) fixed-wing electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aircraft. The.
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