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Airline BusinessHow Jude Bricker transformed Sun Country on journey to IPO
In four short years, former Allegiant president Jude Bricker has taken the Midwest niche carrier from near-death to a stock market IPO, aided by a well-timed venture into cargo markets with Amazon
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Airline BusinessChina Airlines eyes continued growth in profitable cargo market
China Airlines’ decision to focus on cargo early on in the coronavirus pandemic has largely paid off, with the airline remaining profitable despite a collapse in passenger revenue. A senior executive from the airline sheds more light on what the strategy change entailed.
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Airline BusinessBangkok Airways chief pivots to address new realities
Bangkok Airways has had to shift from its core business of carrying international codeshare passengers as it rides out the coronavirus pandemic.
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Airline BusinessSecond 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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Airline BusinessSriLankan CEO eyes the future after brutal 2020
SriLankan Airlines chief executive Vipula Gunatilleka is laying the groundwork for the airline’s future in the post coronavirus world.
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Airline BusinessAsia-Pacific cargo yields on steroids amid bellyhold blues
Recent financial results from Asia-Pacific airlines highlight how the disappearance of bellyhold space has given a massive boost to cargo yields.
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Airline BusinessTime for tough decisions about Garuda, Malaysia Airlines and Thai
The coronavirus pandemic is a salutary lesson in the risks associated with airline ownership, but will Southeast Asia’s governments get the message?
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Airline BusinessHow IATA’s new app could help ease travel restrictions
A mobile phone application for airline passengers to securely store and share Covid-19 vaccination and test results is set to be rolled out as a fully functional system over the next few weeks.
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Airline BusinessEuropean airlines pine for summer recovery
Amid the endless months of lockdown, the rollout of vaccines has been the light at the end of the tunnel for European airlines desperate to begin generating cash again.
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Airline BusinessAs they firefight, airlines shouldn’t ignore changing fundamentals
There is no point making it through to more stable times, only to realise that your pre-pandemic assumptions don’t apply in the new reality.
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Airline BusinessBoeing 737 Max service return in the Americas gathers pace
Airlines across the Americas are first to test customer appetite for the aircraft in much-changed operating climate
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Airline BusinessCovid-hit airlines still seeking the initiative on sustainability
The airline industry could have been forgiven for concentrating on immediate challenges around its very survival during the Covid-19 crisis. But it is a mark of how sustainability has become central to what the European Commission and others have referred to as the sector’s “licence to grow” that already this ...
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Airline BusinessAfter 2020’s blues, IndiGo boss upbeat on long-term growth
IndiGo proved its mettle in a tough 2020, and chief executive Ronojoy Dutta is optimistic about the low-cost carrier’s outlook in the coming years.
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Airline BusinessChallenges await as Rousseau takes Air Canada helm from Rovinescu
Air Canada’s Michael Rousseau takes the helm of the largest Canadian airline at a time when it faces multiple crises, the biggest of which is not of its own making.
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Airline BusinessAirlines anxiously await international rescue as variants trump vaccines
Concerns about variants of Covid-19 are spoiling what was, towards the end of 2020, expected to be a turning point for international air travel.
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Airline BusinessDoes demise of Dragon and Silk signal the end for regional sub-brands in Asia?
Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific have both shut or merged their regional units, in a move to simplify their group structure. With Cathay Dragon and SilkAir gone, what fate awaits the regional airline unit model in Asia-Pacific?
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Airline BusinessRex chairman ups the ante in tough Australian market
With its expansion into narrowbody operations, Australia’s Regional Express (Rex) offers a rare story of growth and ambition in a global airline industry reeling from the coronavirus pandemic.
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Airline BusinessHNA Group’s years of debt-fuelled acquisitions end in shambles
It may have started life as an aviation group, but by the time creditors showed up with bankruptcy filings, China’s HNA Group was a massive conglomerate with broad interests; from property to logistics; from aviation to financial services, the company had a finger in every pie.
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Airline BusinessTraffic data shows how pandemic upset traditional hub dominance in 2020
Trying to make sense of the passenger traffic data for 2020 at airports is a nigh on impossible task given the dramatic declines reported across the globe. For an industry coming off the back of a decade of non-stop growth, at largely above-trend rates, the levels of traffic falls are ...
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Airline BusinessHow trust strained by the DC-10 fractured with the 737 Max
As the domino-chain grounding of the Boeing 737 Max and its gradual patchwork rehabilitation have revealed, unanimous agreement that air safety is paramount does not necessarily translate into a harmonised approach to delivering it. When the European Union Aviation Safety Agency grounded the Max in March 2019, the US FAA ...