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.

In 2015, Robert DeLaurentis set out to circumnavigate the world in a Piper Malibu Mirage. He made it, but things did not go as planned.

Washington could take a tougher line on NATO members seen as undermining the alliance’s cohesion, including Turkey and Poland.

Key industry experts from Europe and the US come together to talk all things regulation in the face of a global pandemic.

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.

Airlines for America (A4A) forecast a modest pick-up in air travel demand over the Thanksgiving holiday, but warned that the outlook for carriers remains “dire” amid a third wave of COVID-19 in the U.S. 

In the roller coaster that is the COVID-19 pandemic, bigger is not always better.