All Analysis – Page 40
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AnalysisCoronavirus cripples recovery of Malaysian carriers
2020 was supposed to provide Malaysian carriers a boost, with the “Visit Malaysia 2020” tourism campaign targeting 30 million visitor arrivals. Instead, the coronavirus pandemic has pushed the airlines to rejig plans and focus on survival, just weeks after some of them reported improvements in 2019’s operating performance. Bo Lingam, ...
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AnalysisATR confronts big order overhang in Asia-Pacific
As Asia-Pacific airlines endure the existential coronavirus pandemic, regional aircraft manufacturers are due to deliver 73 new aircraft to the Asia-Pacific before the end of 2021, of which 61 aircraft are to come from turboprop maker ATR. The overall delivery number and schedule is based on estimates by Cirium and ...
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AnalysisWhy airline CEOs should think counter-intuitively during a crisis
Airline chief executives need to act swiftly during the coronavirus crisis, but should also remember that counter-intuitive actions might lead to better outcomes – particularly when it comes to short-term hits to the balance sheet. Those were among the key messages heard during the FlightGlobal webinar Airline chiefs on surviving ...
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AnalysisWhat is it going to take for passengers to start flying again?
Challenges around the lifting of travel bans, the economic hit and restoring passenger faith in the safety of air travel are likely to be key hurdles to overcome before airlines might return to normal business after the coronavirus grounding.
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AnalysisSlowly but surely, China domestic capacity creeps back up
While airlines around the world hunker down amid the coronavirus crisis, the Chinese domestic market is telling a different story.
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AnalysisGrounded SpiceJet’s monthly lease bill may exceed $20m
Budget carrier SpiceJet, which has grounded its fleet amid a three-week lockdown in India, could face a monthly bill of over $20 million for 100 leased aircraft – most of which are in storage. Cirium fleets data shows that 13 of the aircraft are Boeing 737 Max jets, which have ...
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AnalysisFormer airline chiefs on government role in airline survival and future shape of sector
Government interventions during the crisis are likely to play a role not just in airline abilities to withstand the coronavirus-prompted grounding but also in the shape of the consolidation to follow.
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AnalysisAirline traffic unlikely to return to pre-crisis levels before start of 2021
Airlines are unlikely to see a return to pre-crisis traffic levels before the start of 2021 at the earliest IATA expects - and even that projection assumes the coronavirus issues are largely tackled over the next three months.
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AnalysisLessors exposed to more than 800 near-term jet deliveries
The sector is committed to around 25% of the Airbus and Boeing deliveries due by end of 2021, according to Cirium fleets data
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AnalysisThe decline and fall of India’s Jet Airways
Jet Airways has not flown in India’s skies for a year, but the epic story of India’s worst airline failure continues to resonate. Before its demise in early 2019 the Jet Airways fleet and route network was something to behold. On 30 October 2018, when the BSE Stock Exchange queried ...
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AnalysisPotential glut of near-term deliveries exceeds 2,700 airliners
Cirium fleets data illustrates size of potential problem facing Airbus and Boeing through next two years
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AnalysisTracking how European airlines have cut capacity during crisis
Over the course of the last week the further spread of aircraft groundings means the European airline scheduled passenger market is approaching a standstill amid national lock-downs and the closing of borders to international visitors.
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AnalysisUS government aid to aerospace could mean oversupply in future, but avert ‘catastrophe’ now: analyst
While government support would provide vital relief to US aerospace manufacturing at a time of impending crisis, such aid could create a “synthetic” aircraft market to the detriment of the industry in future years.
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AnalysisAirline coronavirus story could go from ‘Apocalypse Now’ to ‘The Big Short’
When IATA outled its latest estimates for the impact of coronavirus on the airline industry on 24 March, the urgency of the situation was front and centre of its messaging.
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AnalysisLatin American combat aircraft inventory has limited scope to grow
We assess Latin America’s in-service combat aircraft inventory, ahead of biennial FIDAE gathering
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AnalysisWizz warns full grounding a ‘distinct possibility’ as low-cost carriers pare back
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air has warned the grounding of its full fleet remains “a distinct possibility” as it has now reduced its operations to around 15% of its planned capacity.
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AnalysisOutbreak brings mixed fortunes for Asia MROs
While much has been said about how the coronavirus outbreak has affected the airline industry, what is less-known is its effect on MROs. Are MROs in Asia seeing the silver lining of the crisis, or is it also a picture of gloom for many of them?
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AnalysisWeek of 16 March in review: North American carriers reel from coronavirus fallout
The aviation and aerospace industry in North America experienced the most dramatic week since the days and weeks following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
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AnalysisWhich European carriers are suspending all flights because of coronavirus
European carriers have over the past week been announcing increasingly large cuts to their services, as country’s tighten their border controls. A number have called a halt to flights altogether for the coming weeks - or will just operate a few flights to accomodate returning nationals
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AnalysisAll tunnel, no light for Asia-Pacific airlines
The Asia-Pacific is seen as the engine of future aviation growth, but the coronavirus pandemic has brought its airline sector to its knees. Recent days have seen a collapse in air travel demand in the region. When news of coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan, China during January, comparisons were quickly ...