African airlines should urgently start moving airliners to freighting duties to help solve a major shortfall in cargo capacity to and from the continent, according to the International Air Cargo Association (TIACA).
The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) plans to strengthen the viability of the Essential Air Service (EAS) program, by partially subsidizing carriers for flights canceled owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Guadeloupe-based Air Caraïbes has filed the planned schedule for its latest long-haul route, which will connect Paris-Orly (ORY) with Cancun (CUN) in Mexico from October.
As airlines and airports around the world respond to the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, Routes looks at the current state of the global aviation market.
Welcome to Routes’ weekly look at how Europe's aviation market is responding to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, helping you understand the schedule changes and manage the impact so we can navigate through this crisis together.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic results for March 2020 showing that demand (measured in total revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) dived 52.9% compared to the year-ago period. African airlines’ traffic fell 42.8% in March.
China Southern Airlines has officially opened what it calls “Daxing China Southern City” at Beijing Daxing Airport (PKX) as China’s largest carrier begins to shift operations to the new airport.
China’s first private regional airline China Express Airlines doubled its full-year net profit in 2019, citing strong demand for domestic travel between third- and fourth-tier cities.
Prospects for the survival of South African regional carrier SA Express appear less likely after officials charged with resurrecting the cash-strapped airline applied for it to be put into liquidation.
IATA has appointed Sebastian Mikosz as SVP for member and external relations at a time when the organization is striving to support airlines and restore confidence so that aviation can restart.
Airbus will not decide on further changes to its production rates before June and any potential adaptations will be “on a smaller scale” than previous cuts, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said April 29.
