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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 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 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 ...
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Airline BusinessUnited expects expanded profit margins by 2023
United Airlines expects to exceed its 2019 profit margin by 2023, executives say a day after the airline reported a $7.1 billion full-year loss for coronavirus-plagued 2020.
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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 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 BusinessAsian and North American airlines to lead recovery but all regions loss-making in 2021
IATA expects airlines in Asia-Pacific and North America to lead the recovery in 2021 aided by strong domestic markets, though it still sees all regions loss-making as international passenger markets struggle to recover from the pandemic.
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Airline BusinessWomen have 14% of top airline jobs in slow trend towards parity
FlightGlobal’s survey of the crisis-hit airline industry reveals progress has been made on improving the C-suite gender balance over the past 12 months – but from a low base
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Airline BusinessSouthwest flirts with Airbus in fleet renewal
Southwest Airlines, an all-Boeing carrier since its inception almost 50 years ago, is again flirting with the idea buying aircraft from a competing airframer.
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Airline BusinessWhy transatlantic return matters so much to airlines
When Virgin Atlantic broke the news it would need to cut over 1,000 more jobs, even having secured its future within £1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) in refinancing commitments, it underlined just how damaging the failure to reignite the key transatlantic market was.
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Airline BusinessUnited plans new long-haul non-stop flights to Africa, India, Hawaii
United Airlines will launch seven new long-haul widebody non-stop routes – five international and two domestic – as the airline shifts its focus away from business travel to the leisure segment, which it believes will be the first to rebound after the coronavirus global health pandemic.
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Airline BusinessAirline losses mount for second quarter after revenues collapse
Airlines routinely posted losses deeper than the revenue they brought in during the April-June quarter, as the virtual grounding of international scheduled services wiped out much of their business.
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Airline BusinessAirlines left doubting if enough people can, or will, travel in 2020
The industry’s relief at being able to ramp up services as the second half of 2020 began is quickly being replaced by concern that the coronavirus is likely to weigh more heavily on demand than previously thought.
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Airline BusinessUS airlines brace for further volatility in second half of 2020
No matter what kind of positive spin they put on it, US airlines suffered financial carnage in the second quarter as the coronavirus tore through the industry and global economy.
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Airline BusinessWhy SpiceJet may feel time is right for US and UK services
True long-haul flights would be a significant strategic change for the budget operator, and there are many challenges to overcome before services could start.
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Airline BusinessAmerican’s pilots blast JetBlue strategic agreement
American Airlines’ pilots have harshly criticised a planned partnerhip with JetBlue Airways that could become a case study of how major US airlines plan to weather the coronavirus downturn..
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Airline BusinessHow many jobs are airlines cutting due to coronavirus?
Of the large airlines to have made announcements so far, most have implemented job cuts affecting significant proportions of their workforces.
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Airline BusinessAir freight market goes into overdrive
While passenger airlines have heavily reduced their services over recent weeks, the air cargo market has gone into overdrive as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.