COVID-19

Governments across Europe must coordinate their response to preserve the continent’s single market and its benefits, two airline associations have urged.

GOL says it plans to resume growth after COVID-19 crisis passes.

The Panama-based carrier will reduce capacity by at least 80%.

Brussels Airlines has stressed that “all its efforts” will go into resuming operations on April 20.

More international carriers are making sweeping capacity reductions.

The LCC reports falling load factors nearing 50% as a result of COVID-19-fueled demand decline.

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, US president says: “We’ve told the airlines we’re going to help them.”

The three global airline alliances—oneworld, SkyTeam and Star Alliance—have jointly called on governments around the world to “evaluate all possible means” to support the industry amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.

Ryanair expects “the majority” of its fleet will be grounded while Finnair and SAS are among the latest airlines to stop almost all flights. Air France is also grounding its entire Airbus A380 fleet and KLM its entire Boeing 747 fleet.

Local services account for 88% of the carrier’s passengers and the airline said demand is rising on some of its domestic routes.

Demand for long-haul travel grounds to a near halt.

Passenger figures for February show how COVID-19 is affecting the country.

Airlines are being tasked with helping enforce President Donald Trump’s new policy.

Singapore Changi Airport reports dramatic drops in passenger numbers.

Abu Dhabi airline is confident China demand will recover by summer.

Kuwait Airways and Jazeera Airways, both based at KWI, will be affected most.

United Airlines is operating under planning assumptions that president Scott Kirby called “much more severe than anything we’ve seen anyone else publish.”

China is next week set to welcome back a further 2 million departure seats to its network as the first market to be affected by COVID-19 coronavirus continues to recover.

US airlines merged and restructured to be able to withstand an extraneous shock such as COVID-19, Doug Parker says.

Norwegian and Air France are altering their networks in response to the demand slump caused by the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus.

More flights are being cut and 10 Qantas A380s have been grounded.

The airline will keep operating its service from New York JFK to Rome.

Italian flag carrier Alitalia has suspended Milan Malpensa flights as part of efforts to control the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy. American Airlines and LATAM Airlines Group have also halted flights to Milan.

The cuts include an already announced 40% reduction in flights to Italy.

Following the insolvency of Flybe, Routes analyses the potential impact of the regional carrier’s demise on the UK and wider European market.