The International Air Transport Association (IATA) will hold the 2026 edition of the World Legal Symposium (WLS) from February 17-19, in Warsaw, Poland, hosted by LOT Polish Airlines, under the theme ‘Liability in a Changing World’. Airlines face a variety of enduring and new categories of liability, including their classic insured risks, a host of contemporary compliance areas, such as ESG...

Leading the regions in terms of percentage growth was Asia Pacific with a year-on-year growth of 22.8% with 21 million premium passengers.

The steepest fall in revenue passenger kilometers (RPK) growth from May was in the Middle East, where intl. traffic contracted 0.4% y-o-y, impacted by military conflict. Latin America saw highest increase in demand, while India recorded 3.1% domestic RPK.