Analysis – Page 46
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Airline BusinessDoes shift towards pre-flight Covid-19 testing spell disaster for airlines?
The tightening of border controls is an emerging theme in the early days of 2021, as governments react to concerns about new variants of Covid-19 and soaring infection rates in many regions.
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Airline BusinessAsia-Pacific cautious about 737 Max return
Regulators and airlines in the Asia-Pacific are taking a wait-and-see approach in regard to getting the Boeing 737 Max flying again in the type’s biggest market.
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Airline BusinessVaccine rally takes edge off tumbling airline share prices in 2020
Share prices of many leading airline groups ended 2020 down between a third to a half during a torrid year for the sector.
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Airline BusinessWhich airlines launched, failed or merged during 2020
Such has been the magnitude of the pandemic impact on air travel demand that the airline industry has to some extent been in a stasis since March - and with it so too has much of the normal merger activity, start-ups and airline failures.
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Airline BusinessWill new realities clear path for Qantas-JAL joint venture approval?
The proposed joint venture between Japan Airlines (JAL) and Qantas underlines the horrendous state and uncertain future of Asia-Pacific’s international air travel markets.
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Airline BusinessHow many jobs have Europe’s airlines cut in 2020?
Tens of thousands of jobs have been lost in Europe’s airline sector since the crisis began, as carriers seek to reduce cash burn and ‘right-size’ for the eventual recovery in demand.
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Airline BusinessHow might new Covid-19 strains affect the airline industry’s outlook?
The emergence of more infectious strains of Covid-19 and the consequent restrictions placed on travel to and from the UK, Denmark and South Africa could have significant implications for the airline industry’s recovery path.
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Airline BusinessWill airline failures increase when crisis subsides?
One of the most striking aspects of what is the deepest and most sustained crisis to ever hit commercial air transport is that it has resulted in relatively few airline collapses thus far.
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Airline BusinessWhy wider airline consolidation may have to wait
IAG has reportedly agreed fresh terms to acquire Spanish carrier Air Europa, but further deal activity across the industry may be delayed by the crisis.
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Airline BusinessCan Chinese carriers build on domestic strength to make international recovery?
With Chinese carriers securing domestic recovery, the new year will bring an industry raring to recapture lost international share, with new players added to the fold.
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Airline BusinessWill Europe’s low-cost airlines lead the region out of the crisis?
The possibility that vaccines might begin to have a genuine impact on controlling the pandemic in Europe by the end of the first quarter of 2021 has changed the narrative.
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Airline BusinessTurbulence in South America’s airline industry will pass
Gol chief financial officer Richard Lark explains how current woes are being exacerbated by pre-pandemic overcapacity, but that they will be overcome in a region used to handling crises
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Airline BusinessJAL pursues path as urban air mobility innovator
Japan Airlines’ foray into the urban air mobility (UAM) sector could one day see the airline benefit from alternative revenue streams .
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Airline BusinessO’Leary pitches Ryanair’s unlikely union advantage
A few years ago the notion that Michael O’Leary would argue Ryanair’s relationship with its unions would give it a competitive advantage in the marketplace would seem absurd.
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Airline BusinessHow might air travel recovery shape up?
CTAIRA analyst Chris Tarry writes that there is not an existential threat to the industry as a whole, though there may be for some individual airlines, and that the opening up of markets will be a multi-paced affair
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Airline BusinessHow cargo revenue has offered a lifeline to carriers
The shortage of air freight capacity amid the coronavirus pandemic has offered opportunity for airlines, lessors, and cargo carriers to eke out some precious revenue. Half of global air freight in 2019 was carried in the bellies of passenger aircraft, so the grounding of thousands of aircraft this year depressed ...
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Airline BusinessBailouts renew states’ influence on European airlines
Decades after airlines started moving out of government control and competing in a deregulated market, the issue of state intervention has been brought sharply back into focus by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Airline BusinessParadox of the Asia-Pacific airline market recovery
When trying to gauge the prospects for a recovery in air travel, the Asia-Pacific market paradoxically offers both reasons for some of the brightest optimism and greatest concern for airlines. On the one hand Asia-Pacific carriers seem well placed in the mid-term to benefit from continued strength in the air ...
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Airline BusinessWhat challenges do airlines face as they reintroduce Boeing 737 Max jets?
With the US Federal Aviation Administration’s long-awaited recertification of the Boeing 737 Max being swiftly followed by the same from Brazil’s ANAC, carriers in the Americas are preparing to reintroduce the narrowbody type to paying passengers.
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Airline BusinessHow should airline leaders address the hole in their bucket?
Airline fortunes with their tight margins were already finely balanced even going into a crisis which may require a major revamp of their business models. Peter Davies, founder of Airline Management Group, argues different skills and strategies will be required to come through this and could require a rethink for some of a traditional reliance on business traffic.