United Airlines will resume service between San Francisco and Shanghai on July 8, as it looks to slowly ramp up its large Asia-Pacific network this summer.
Gogo Business Aviation, a provider of broadband connectivity services for business aviation, said it had hit 3,000 daily flights during the week of June 22, up from a single-day low of 378 flights in a day in mid-April as the COVID-19 pandemic spread.
American Airlines will resume booking flights to capacity on July 1, despite mounting rates of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in many U.S. states this past week.
Brussels Airlines has reached an agreement with its Worker’s Council, paving the way for the Lufthansa subsidiary to reduce its 4,000-strong workforce by a quarter as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said he expects aircraft production and deliveries will be back in line by the end of 2021, meaning the manufacturer will produce more aircraft than it can deliver until then.
Lufthansa Group said June 29 that it is seeing increased demand for short-term and long-term bookings and has therefore taken the decision to return another 200 aircraft to service between now and the end of October.
Australian carrier Regional Express Holdings (Rex) is a rare example of an airline looking to make new fleet moves to take advantage of market opportunities despite the COVID-19 crisis.
Airlines for America (A4A) has pledged its member carriers will refund tickets paid by customers who fail pre-boarding temperature checks—on the condition they are conducted by federal authorities.
