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Airline BusinessWizz Air UK seeks ‘scaleable’ growth as testing change boosts demand
New Wizz Air UK chief executive Marion Geoffroy believes the scrapping of the more expensive PCR test for fully-vaccinated travellers from later this month will be a key driver of demand as the carrier ramps up capacity for Christmas travel.
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Airline BusinessAirline earnings season begins with warning on winter fuel prices
If airlines were banking on a helpful cost environment during what was already shaping up to be a challenging northern hemisphere winter season, those hopes took a hit this week with a warning on jet fuel prices.
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Airline BusinessArrivederci Alitalia as famous brand bows out – for now
Italian national carrier Alitalia will carry out its last flight today as the company ceases operations, though it remains to be seen if it is the last time the long-standing and familiar brand is seen in the air.
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Airline BusinessHong Kong lags Singapore in travel reopening
Two typhoons that have hit Hong Kong over the past four days have caused flights to be cancelled and delayed, but their impact has been a drop in the ocean compared to the more than 18 months of disruption caused by Covid-19-related travel restrictions.
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Airline BusinessTata’s Air India coup to shake up Indian airline sector
Tata Sons’ successful bid for Air India is transformational for the country’s airline sector, possibly resulting in a serious rival to market leader IndiGo.
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Airline BusinessOpen-up October: Southeast Asia enters cautious reopening phase
Amid a growing shift towards living with an endemic coronavirus, a number of countries in Southeast Asia are gradually reopening their domestic and international borders, citing the need to boost a battered tourism sector, as well as regain some level of normalcy.
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Airline BusinessHow the crisis tested airline-lessor relationships
When the Covid-19 pandemic devastated global passenger demand in early 2020, it set off a wave of rent deferral and restructuring requests from airlines to their lessors and asset managers. The scale of the cross-party correspondence, the legal and technical talks, and the contractual negotiations that this created can only ...
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Airline BusinessHow IATA thinks airlines could reach net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050
For some airlines, the net-zero target was nothing new. But for all carriers, the important task is working out how to get there – and then implementing that plan.
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Airline BusinessAirline industry comes back fighting under IATA chief Walsh
The IATA AGM marked by a shift away from the harmonious front seen in parts of the commercial air transport industry at the height of the pandemic.
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Airline BusinessWhy Alaska Airlines has set 2040 target for net-zero CO2 operations
While the global airline industry took a further step to tackling its environment footprint by collectively committing to reaching net-zero C02 emissions by 2050 under a resolution agreed at the recent IATA AGM, Alaska Airlines has a goal of reaching that point 10 years sooner.
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Airline BusinessIATA chief Walsh on 2022 recovery, ‘rogue’ suppliers and sharing the pain on sustainability
Ahead of this year’s IATA AGM in Boston, FlightGlobal spoke to the airline association’s director general Willie Walsh about his aims for the gathering – and his views on the challenges and opportunities ahead for the airline industry
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Airline BusinessAirline Strategy Awards signal return of international airline events
As Covid-19 travel restrictions are relaxed in some key airlines markets, the return of international in-person events is a growing trend – and an important one for an industry that would struggle if Zoom became the default setting for business networking.
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Airline BusinessCan airlines overcome supply-chain challenges to meet strong air cargo demand?
The surge in demand for air cargo and attractive yields do not come without complications. Crucially, the sector is unavoidably part of the wider supply-chain issues that have been reported around the world in recent weeks.
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Airline BusinessWill AirAsia X hold a creditors’ meeting in October?
AirAsia X hopes to hold a creditor vote on its restructuring by the end of October, but three of its lessor creditors tell Cirium they think the airline may need more time.
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Airline BusinessHow Annick Guerard is leading the fightback at Air Transat
With a little help from new partners and a determination not to dwell on a punishing 18 months for the business, Annick Guerard is plotting a secure future for Air Transat
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Airline BusinessWhy airlines are delighted about the full return of transatlantic travel
Lufthansa Group chief executive Carsten Spohr described the development as “a major step out of the crisis”, while IATA director general Willie Walsh called it “a major step forward”.
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Airline BusinessJetBlue ‘beholden’ to American under Northeast pact: US government
The US government’s case against the American Airlines-JetBlue Airways alliance rests largely on the argument that the deal leaves JetBlue overly dependent on much-larger American.
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Airline BusinessFor Latin America’s airlines, return to 2019 is ‘not good enough’
As Latin American carriers make a steep climb out of the crisis, the region’s pre-pandemic normal is an undesirable summit
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Airline BusinessWhat now for EasyJet after rejection of Wizz Air takeover?
Reports that Wizz Air was the failed bidder for European low-cost rival EasyJet are perhaps no surprise, given the compatibility of the two operators and the upheaval created by Covid-19, but the failure of the move leaves the latter carrier facing questions about its next steps.
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Airline BusinessMassive aircraft order solves just part of United’s fleet-renewal challenge
United Airlines bold order for 270 narrowbodies in June formed part of an ambitious seat upgauge and product enhancement plan. But as consultants René Armas Maes and Jonathan Norman write, achieving its ambitions depends on how the fleet renewal is implemented.