All Airline Business articles – Page 75
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Airline BusinessAsia-Pacific April deliveries collapse amid travel restrictions
Asia-Pacific airlines received just two new aircraft during April 2020, as travel restrictions stemming from the coronavirus epidemic played havoc with delivery schedules. Only two Chinese carriers received new jets, according to Cirium fleets data. Loong Air took an Airbus A320neo and Chengdu Airlines took a Comac ARJ21. ...
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Airline BusinessHow might crisis impact European carrier network thinking
A string of major permanent job cut announcements from European carriers over the past week underlines the extent to which the airline industry will be smaller when passenger services return to some kind of normality.
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Airline BusinessAsia’s bullish LCC orderbook confronts a bear trap
Following epic orders in the aviation bull market of the 2010s, Airbus and Boeing have significant exposure to the fate of the four major low-cost carrier groups in the Asia-Pacific. The 2010s were a heady time for Asia-Pacific low-cost carrier bosses such as AirAsia’s Tony Fernandes, Lion Air’s Rusdi Kirana, ...
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Airline BusinessPassenger levels to more than halve at airports after traffic peak in 2019
A fresh forecast from airports body ACI World estimates that global passenger levels will more than halve in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic takes its toll in air traffic.
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Airline BusinessWhy European regionals fear bailouts will distort competitive landscape
Director general of the European Regions Airline Association, Montserrat Barriga, says that government bailouts are focusing on bigger, state-owned airlines, creating a market distortion for smaller and private operators.
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Airline BusinessHow will crisis impact airline mergers?
Airlines and regulators are having to adjust to a fast-changing landscape as they consider merger and acquisition plans, both those put in play before the coronavirus crisis hit and those that might emerge in its aftermath.
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Airline BusinessFor airlines, there has never been so much at stake
The fast-moving nature of the coronavirus crisis has created a curious situation where talk of airlines being on the brink of collapse is happening alongside discussions of how operations might be restarted in the coming weeks.
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Airline BusinessNew AAPA chief sees multilateral effort as key to restoring air travel
The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) is optimistic about the future of air travel in the region, but stresses that rebooting the air travel sector will take substantial coordination. Subhas Menon is the new director general of the AAPA, succeeding Andrew Herdman. Prior to joining the association he spent ...
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Airline BusinessHow would SAA collapse affect South Africa’s airline connectivity?
If South African Airways fails to find a way through its current funding crisis, it could leave a big hole in its home country’s connectivity, depending on which routes are considered viable as coronavirus restrictions are lifted.
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Airline BusinessHow will states exert their renewed influence on airlines?
Airline bodies, chiefs and industry analysts have been warning since national lockdowns grounded scheduled passenger services that many carriers did not have enough cash to survive more than a couple of months.
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Airline BusinessRather than solving social distancing, airlines face a waiting game
Seeing 75-year-old airline trade association IATA and ultimate industry disruptor Michael O’Leary express the same view on a topic is a rare thing, but we are living through unprecedented times.
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Airline BusinessGrounded commercial aircraft around the world – in pictures
Parked aircraft have become commonplace at airports in all regions as the coronavirus outbreak prompts border restrictions and plummeting demand for air travel
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Airline BusinessThe lessors with the most exposure to Virgin Australia
Singapore-based Avation is the lessor with the highest exposure, by number of aircraft, to Virgin Australia, which has entered voluntary administration. Goshawk, meanwhile, has the most lease rentals to lose if the airline cannot make payments. Avation has 13 aircraft with the Brisbane-based carrier, including 11 ATR 72s on operating ...
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Airline BusinessAir freight market goes into overdrive
While passenger airlines have heavily reduced their services over recent weeks, the air cargo market has gone into overdrive as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Airline BusinessAir Astana’s Foster eyes tricky return to normalcy post coronavirus
Air Astana chief executive Peter Foster is upbeat about the airline’s future in the post-coronavirus world, but sees a number of challenges before normalcy returns.
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Airline BusinessHow WestJet reacted quickly to virus – and faced up to tough decisions
When WestJet chief executive Ed Sims drives past the Calgary International airport to his office every morning, he sees a row of parked aircraft, grounded by the coronavirus pandemic, and wonders what fresh hell awaits.
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Airline BusinessEarly retirements in crises: a new normal?
Across the world, airlines are considering bringing forward the retirement of older aircraft types. When the coronavirus outbreak finally abates, the question will remain if these accelerated retirements represent an anomaly, or a “new normal”.
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Airline BusinessIATA appeals to Latin American governments for coordination
Airline industry association IATA is calling on Latin American governments to harmonise plans to eventually restart air service and reopen borders, saying an uncoordinated effort will hinder the sector’s recovery.
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Airline BusinessUS carriers tap relief funding as crisis deepens
North American airline traffic is expected be down more than a third compared with the 2019 level, IATA’s projections for the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the sector show.
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Airline BusinessEtihad and Emirates prepare ground for service return
Etihad’s announcement that it aims to begin restoring its passenger network from the start of May and Emirates’ initial move to test passengers for coronavirus ahead of flights show the Gulf carriers readying for a return to operations.