All Coronavirus articles – Page 16
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Southwest recalls all flight attendants
Southwest Airlines has recalled all of the flight attendants who had taken long-term voluntary leave as the airline prepares for a domestic recovery which is progressing faster than expected.
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Airline Business
Airline coronavirus recovery tracker: April 2021 update
Our regular examination of the latest global data for several key airline market indicators, including international and domestic travel restrictions, traffic and capacity in passenger and cargo markets, in-service and stored fleets, jet fuel costs, and share price trends for the world’s largest groups.
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New IATA chief insists all Covid-related travel measures should be temporary
New IATA director general Willie Walsh has called for all restrictions and constraints on international air travel to be removed as quickly as possible, as the trade body’s latest traffic data showed the continued catastrophic impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the airline industry.
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Ryanair and Wizz again flew fewer than a million passengers in March
Ryanair and Wizz Air carried fewer than 1 million passengers between them in March for the second month in a row, with heavy restrictions on international travel bringing the European aviation sector to a virtual standstill.
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United will train 5,000 pilots by 2030, half to be women or minorities
United Airlines says that it will train 5,000 new pilots in the next ten years through its “Aviate” pilot recruiting programme, with at least half of those to be women and people of colour.
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French state to double Air France-KLM stake as part of recapitalisation
The European Commission has approved a €4 billion recapitalisation of Air France that will see the French state double its holding in Air France-KLM.
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Trans-Tasman travel bubble to start on 19 April
Australia and New Zealand will have a go once again at establishing two-way, quarantine-free travel, with the latest arrangement set to begin from 19 April.
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Delta cancels more than 100 flights due to staff shortage
Delta Air Lines has cancelled more than 100 flights over the busy Easter holiday weekend due to staffing issues.
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US domestic air travel to normalise by 2022: report
A new report by consulting firm Oliver Wyman says that US domestic air travel is expected to make a full recovery by early next year.
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Industry welcomes new CDC guidance on vaccinated travellers
The US travel industry has welcomed a new public health determination that fully vaccinated people may travel domestically without required Covid-19 testing or mandatory quarantines.
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Air Canada and Transat call off merger
The European Commission (EC) has put the brakes on Air Canada’s planned acquisition of Transat AT, the parent of Air Transat, leading the companies to call off the deal completely.
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United to resume hiring pilots, starting with 300 candidates
United Airlines plans to hire hundreds of pilots this year as the airline begins what it sees as a sustainable recovery after a coronavirus-plagued year.
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WestJet lays off another 415 pilots
Canada’s WestJet has laid off another 415 pilots as the coronavirus crisis continues to tear through that country’s aviation sector.
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Delta to stop blocking middle seats in May
Delta Air Lines, the last US carrier to continue blocking middle seats amid the pandemic, will rescind that policy in the coming weeks.
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United expands flights to Latin America in May
United Airlines says that during the month of May it will exceed its pre-pandemic schedule to Latin America, 15 months after cutting service to the region as passenger demand plummeted amid the first wave of the coronavirus.
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From record profits to Covid-19 devastation, de Juniac saw it all as IATA chief
In 2016, Alexandre de Juniac brought his French government and airline industry experience to a role that required diplomacy and a steady hand on the tiller. From 2020 onwards, unprecedented crisis-management skills were the order of the day.
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Civil aviation minister forecasts bleak 2020 results for Air India
Air India is forecast to widen its full-year net loss to Rs97.8 billion ($1.35 billion), even as the Indian government reiterated its support for the long-drawn divestment of the national carrier.
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AAPA reports dismal February for international traffic
International air travel in the Asia-Pacific region remains extremely weak, although air cargo continues to prosper, says the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA).
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Airline Business
Second time lucky? Asia-Pacific countries flirt with travel bubbles - again
A year since the coronavirus pandemic turned the aviation industry on its head, the drumbeat of establishing travel bubbles is picking up again. After several botched attempts at creating travel bubbles, will the latest attempts — now running alongside a vaccination rollout — finally succeed?
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JetBlue appears to secure Heathrow slots from 2 August
JetBlue Airways appears to have secured 270 slots at London’s Heathrow airport for the summer travel season, as it launches low-cost transatlantic narrowbody service from the US East Coast.