All Airlines articles – Page 370
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NewsAir Canada looking to quit Transat deal: reports
French-language media in Canada report that legacy carrier Air Canada is looking to exit its planned takeover of Transat AT, the parent company of Air Transat, as Canada’s biggest airline attempts to manage through the coronavirus crisis while preserving its liquidity.
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NewsInvestigators download data from crashed PIA A320 recorders
Investigators have downloaded information from the two flight recorders retrieved from the Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A320 which crashed in Karachi. French investigation authority BEA states that – at the request of the Pakistani inquiry team – it has “successfully” obtained information from the cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders. “Analysis of ...
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NewsDelta retires MD-88s and MD-90s
Delta Air Lines marked the end of an era on 2 June when it retired its final McDonnell Douglas MD-88 and MD-90 aircraft, closing 34 years during which the types served as workhorses in the fleets of US carriers.
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NewsRunaway trolley injured several passengers on Air France 777
French investigators believe cabin crew’s increased workload, after an unexpected change of aircraft type, meant a trolley was left unsecured and injured several passengers when it broke free. The accident occurred on board an Air France Boeing 777-300ER (F-GSQL) departing Mauritius for Paris Charles de Gaulle on 16 September 2018. ...
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NewsIATA figures show collapse of air-freight demand in April
Global air freight demand was down nearly 28% in April compared with a year earlier, according to IATA – the sharpest fall ever recorded.
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Airline BusinessCoronavirus pushes fragile African carriers closer to the edge
While no region has escaped the impact of the coronavirus grounding, arguably its most immediate damage has been felt among Africa’s already struggling carriers.
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NewsDe Juniac sees ICAO guidelines providing ‘safe process’ for air travel
IATA director general Alexandre de Juniac believes the new guidelines developed by an ICAO task force strikes “the right compromise” between airline economic concerns and the safe restart of passenger traffic.
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Airline BusinessEuropean carriers aim to cut their way through the crisis
While the short-term focus among European carriers has been on finding ways to survive the crisis and resume services, airlines have been quick to signal sizeable cuts to their operations with few expecting traffic to return to previous peaks before 2023
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NewsCovid-19 pushes IndiGo to fourth-quarter net loss
Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo slipped to a net loss of Rs8.7 billion ($116 million) in its fiscal fourth quarter, from a near-Rs6 billion net profit a year ago, as Covid-19 flight restrictions “significantly impacted” revenue.
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NewsUtair 737 hit 1.1m snow bank short of runway: inquiry
Investigators have determined that snow-clearance at Usinsk airport was inadequate before a landing accident in which a Utair Boeing 737-500 struck a shallow snow bank, about 1.1m high, situated 32m before the runway. The inquiry has also revealed that the aircraft was consistently slightly low on its descent path during ...
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NewsEasyJet to meet rivals head-on in summer price war
EasyJet is slashing its summer fares as it prepares to operate around half of its 1,022 routes in July and nearly three-quarters in August.
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NewsBain Capital and Cyrus Capital on Virgin Australia shortlist
Bain Capital and Cyrus Capital Partners are on the final shortlist of potential buyers for Virgin Australia. “The next stage in this sale process begins today,” administrator Deloitte said on 2 June. Deloitte will facilitate engagement between the preferred bidders and business stakeholders in the coming weeks, ...
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NewsICAO task force outlines guidelines for restarting air travel
An ICAO task force has published its recommendations to aid the restart of international air transport following its virtual grounding from the coronavirus pandemic. ICAO’s Aviation Recovery Task Force drew up the guidelines after consulting with countries, regional organisations, the World Health Organisation and aviation industry groups. The task force’s ...
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NewsSIA and SilkAir maintain steep capacity cuts in June and July
Singapore Airlines and SilkAir have announced flight schedules for June and July, which represent an approximately 94% cut against the original capacity scheduled. Apart from serving four destinations in Australia, the carriers will fly to only one or two cities in each destination country. SilkAir will operate on routes to ...
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NewsAirlines reinstate flights to US vacation spots as cities re-open
As traditional US summer holiday spots like Orlando and Las Vegas begin loosening restrictions after an almost-three-month coronavirus-forced hibernation, airlines are seeing passenger interest rise to these destinations, but also across their networks.
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NewsClark to continue Emirates involvement as retirement looms
Emirates Airline president Tim Clark is due to step down this month and with no successor yet publically identified, he confirms his involvement with the airline will continue.
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NewsClark: Cash-flow concerns likely to seriously impact new aircraft demand
Emirates Airline president Tim Clark expects the coronavirus-related cash flow crisis will result in a significant number of order deferrals and cancellations as airlines wrestle with the size and shape of their fleets.
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NewsEmirates’ Clark expecting tough 2020 then slow near-term recovery
Industry will have to “tough it out” for the remainder of this year as it reels from the coronavirus pandemic, but Clark is optimistic that business will begin to improve gradually during 2021.
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NewsHong Kong airport gradually reopens to transit passengers
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has, from today, resumed allowing some transit passengers to use the airport. “From 1 June 2020 until further notice, only transit/transfer passengers who have been checked through at the origin port and take transit/transfer flights operated by the same airline group are accepted at HKIA,” ...
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NewsDemand for air travel to remain low until 2023: S&P
Airlines face a prolonged uphill climb before air travel demand recovers to pre-pandemic levels, as passenger numbers are likely to remain below last year’s levels until 2023, S&P Global Ratings has suggested in a new report. The ratings agency forecasts a “swoosh-shaped” recovery in which, after plummeting up to 55% ...