KLM will fly to 11 African destinations during the current summer schedule – the same number the Dutch carrier served in the region prior the pandemic. Additionally, KLM says it will launch flights to Kenyan city Mombasa during the winter 2021/2022 schedule. The airline's website indicates it operates flights to Accra, Cairo, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam, Entebbe, Johannesburg, Kigali, Kilimanjaro, Lagos, Nairobi and Zanzibar. KLM notes that it added Cairo and Zanzibar to its network in 2020, while flights to Luanda and Windhoek had been suspended prior the pandemic due to a decline in customer demand.

Boeing has appointed former United Airlines pilot Stayce Harris to its board, to serve on its aerospace safety and audit committees. Harris retired from United in 2020 after around 30 years at the carrier, having flown Boeing 747's, 757's, 767's and 777's, the airframer says. It notes that Harris is a retired US Air Force reserve lieutenant general. Chairman Larry Kellner states: "General Harris is a highly-accomplished leader who will provide insight and perspective based on her hands-on experience flying Boeing's aircraft and her demonstrated commitment to safety, training and integrity." "She brings nearly four decades of distinguished military service and expertise to Boeing," Kellner adds. Harris says: "As a pilot of Boeing aircraft and through my tenure in the air force, I have worked closely with Boeing's commercial and military aircraft for more than three decades. I am pleased to join the board of Boeing, a company with a rich history in aviation that serves as a vital partner to the US military and is a critical enabler of the global economy."

United Airlines has agreed new orders for 50 Boeing 737 Max 8 and 150 Max 10 jets and 70 Airbus A321neo aircraft. The new orders were designed in part to help United grow its aircraft gauge for flights to its hubs in Newark and San Francisco. United chief commercial officer Andrew Nocella said during a media call on 28 June that the new orders will eventually replace United's aging fleet of 51 757-200s. The Chicago-based carrier intends to retire approximately 300 aircraft during the next few years. United had 275 aircraft on order prior to the purchases disclosed on 29 June; 229 of the prior orders are for narrowbodies, data shows. United expects 40 new narrowbodies to be delivered in 2022, 138 in 2023 and "as many as" 350 in 2024 and beyond. United took delivery of its first Max 8 on 28 June. "In 2023 alone, United’s fleet will, on average, add about one new narrowbody aircraft every three days," the carrier states. United says its purchase of 270 new aircraft is the largest combined order in its history and represents the focal point of its "United Next" plan. "The plan will have a transformational effect on the customer experience and is expected to increase the total number of available seats per domestic departure by almost 30%, significantly lower carbon emissions per seat and create tens of thousands of quality, unionized jobs by 2026," United says. Although no additional widebodies were ordered, United expects transatlantic travel during summer 2022 to be a "record-breaker". The carrier has 45 widebody A350-900 jets and one 787-10 on order. Chief executive Scott Kirby has reminded investors and media repeatedly in recent months that United has been the only US major to not accelerate the retirement of widebodies (or any aircraft, for that matter) since the pandemic began. "The headline today was all narrowbody aircraft," Nocella says. "What is left out of the story a little bit is the fact that since the summer of 2019… we've taken delivery of about 30 widebody jets, all 787s and 777-300s. So while we did not order any widebodies today we've had a large influx of widebody jets that we've added to the airline over that time period."