Airport chief discusses how the facility in Ecuador's capital is meeting its financial obligations to bond holders after shutting down for more than two months and seeing traffic drop by 87%.
Avianca CEO Anko van der Werff tells ATW correspondent Kurt Hofmann about a year like no other and explains the airline’s future plans as it looks to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
North American passenger carriers were able to avoid the high-profile airline failures seen in other regions, but there is no clear indication when daily losses will cease.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caught the entire industry off guard. While air transport has faced numerous previous crises, the fact that subsequent recoveries occurred at different rates had led to complacency and ill-preparedness for an event of such magnitude.
Singapore's transport minister Ong Ye Kung tells Chen Chuanren, South East Asia & China Editor at Air Transport World, about how his country is helping to support the return of air travel.
The industry as a whole needs more big name spokespersons like Ford to send the message out beyond the core community about why it is safe to fly, but also reminding people why they fly: to do business, to connect, to celebrate, to comfort.
Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark star Harrison Ford has become a spokesperson for Airlink, a major coup for getting the message about the nonprofit’s rapid response disaster relief work outside of the aviation community.
The announcement today that Cruz is stepping down from BA’s top role, though remaining as non-executive chairman through a transition period, is not really the surprise. The shock is that the leadership change was so long in coming.
A mask over mouth and nose is small ask of the passenger, but a significant contributor to that risk reduction. It’s the right thing to do in a pandemic for yourself, your fellow passengers and the flight crew.
No one will be more disappointed by the decision announced today that IATA’s 2020 AGM event is going virtual than the association’s leader, Alexandre de Juniac.
