Coronavirus

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.

Tougher travel restrictions imposed across parts of Europe to help curb a second wave of COVID-19 cases have forced KLM to cut its planned seat capacity and flight frequencies.

Eurowings expects that demand from leisure and visiting-friends-and-relatives (VFR) travelers will drive the recovery and so plans to expand its offering to these customers.

Virgin Atlantic would be willing to partner with Flybe should the UK regional airline’s planned resurrection come to fruition.

Emirates expects a “steep rebound” in air travel to take place once a COVID-19 vaccine is available, according to its chairman and CEO Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum.

As it continues to work through a Chapter 11 restructuring, Avianca Holdings is planning to emerge from the process as a much leaner airline.

Germany is the first Eurofighter partner nation to top up its orders; Spain will follow in 2021.

Groundings and layoffs shift attention to pilots’ well-being as well as competency.

OEM production rate guidance ain’t what it used to be; how the supply chain has to read between the lines.

British Airways (BA) is reportedly halting all its services from London Gatwick once more and placing more staff on furlough as a result of the current month-long COVID-19 lockdown that began in England Nov. 5.

A new survey of passenger attitudes about air travel poses potential long-term problems for airlines seeking to restore traffic in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

LCC Air Arabia believes it is in a strong position to weather the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and that the air transport industry’s fundamentals remain strong.

Projects to use drones to deliver COVID-19 supplies are among the first wave of winners under the UK’s £125 million ($165 million) Future Flight Challenge.

A common European COVID health pass must be implemented to “open the world and restore mobility,” the chief commercial officer of Copenhagen Airport (CPH) has said.

Hong Kong and Singapore will begin a bilateral quarantine-free air travel bubble (ATB) between the two cities starting from Nov. 22.

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.

In little more than a year, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended industry projections of a pilot shortage by creating a surplus.

NASA is looking at ways to enable industry to collaborate in maturing technologies for the next narrowbody airliner.