Coronavirus

While domestic airline capacity recovers, border closures are making it difficult for carriers to offer international departure seats.

Despite a difficult year, Saudi Arabian LCC flyadeal is expecting big things in 2021.

Airline initial public offerings (IPOs) are relatively rare events in the U.S., with just two carriers going public during the last decade—Mesa Airlines in 2018 and Virgin America in 2014.

AMERICAN prepaid $550m loan from US Treasury Department from CARES Act and terminated agreement after closing $10b financing backed by AAdvantage

AUSTRIAN AIRLINES announced plan due to slow market recovery to place another two A320 Family aircraft into long-term storage until at least 2024/25

European airlines have welcomed news of progress on a European Commission plan aimed at facilitating international travel while calling on governments to do more to support a summer recovery.

EASA is suggesting aircrew members wait 48 hours after receiving a dose of COVID-19 vaccine before taking to the skies in case of side effects.

Former RAF and NetJets pilot Adam Twidell established PrivateFly as a digital charter broker in St Albans, on the northern outskirts of London, in 2007.

Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines will further reduce its fleet and cut more jobs as the COVID-19 crisis drags on.

Kenya Airways has announced the worst financial results in its 44-year history for 2020.

The recovery in Brazil has been temporarily stalled by a rash new COVID-19 cases.

Twin-props seem to have gone missing from the skies of general aviation airports.

Hawaiian Airlines CEO Ingram speaks to CAPA Analyst Lori Ranson about running an airline during a pandemic and the future of the carrier.

Almost all Asia-Pacific airlines are overhauling their fleet strategies, with changes that will be felt for years to come.

QATAR AIRWAYS plans in late March to resume three-times-weekly Doha-Mykonos, Greece (A320).

The Nigerian government has suspended services by Emirates Airline in and out of the West African country in a row over COVID-19 requirements, according to multiple reports in the nation’s media.

Cabin and technology specialists believe the latest anti-viral solutions could reassure passengers as they gradually return to the skies following the coronavirus crisis.

WESTJET plans in late June to restore regional services (to Charlottetown, Fredericton, Moncton, Sydney and Quebec City) that were suspended in 4Q20

RYANAIR expanded its UK Summer 2021 schedule to include >2,300 weekly flights across 480 routes (26 new).

INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES GROUP secured 3-year, US$1.8b secured revolving credit facility with a syndicate of banks that is available to Aer Lingus

The Airlines Association of Thailand (AAT) is hoping the country’s government will move forward its border reopening plan from October to July, together with a “tourism sandbox” currently planned for Phuket, the Bangkok Post reports.

Ryanair has confirmed its summer schedule from the UK, from where the ULCC intends to operate more than 2,300 weekly flights across 480 routes.

The CEO of Austrian aerospace supplier FACC does not see widebody production rates returning to 2019 levels until the end of the decade.

DFW CEO Sean Donohue discusses the US airport’s recovery strategy, its major network targets, and how the US aviation market will fare in the next few months.

Dubai Airport CEO Paul Griffiths outlines how COVID will continue to impact strategy and how he is confident its role as a major hub is secure in the recovery.