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New US Transportation Secretary will likely be met with quizzical response from industry.
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Despite the pandemic, the industry continued to make progress in sustainability, space, aviation safety and more.
 
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The Dec. 15 news that US President-elect Joe Biden will nominate former election rival Pete Buttigieg to be US Transportation Secretary will likely be met with a slightly quizzical “interesting” by those in Washington DC aviation circles.
 
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IATA DG and CEO Alexandre de Juniac called the delivering of billions of doses of a vaccine that must be transported and stored in a deep-frozen state to the entire world efficiently a “hugely complex logistical challenge across the supply chain.” Here are some airlines that have accepted the challenge.
 
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