Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The UK government has published a list of countries from which international arrivals to England will not have to self-isolate, including France, Greece, Italy, Spain and other popular tourist destinations.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
Korean Air has been cleared to seek additional financing from a new government assistance fund that should help the carrier stay afloat through the COVID-19 crisis.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Air France plans to cut 6,560 jobs by the end of 2022, with a further 1,020 to go from its regional subsidiary HOP! through fleet simplification and restructuring.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
Portugal has become the latest European government to back its largest airline after increasing its existing stake in TAP Air Portugal from 50% to 72.5%.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The air transport industry welcomed a change in calculating emissions offsets; environmental campaigners are not convinced.
Sustainability

By Sean Broderick
WASHINGTON—Five U.S. airlines have agreed to tentative terms that will net them access to a U.S. Treasury loan program set up to support business during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airlines & Lessors

Alaska Airlines is steadily reducing its cash burn and is on track to be back in the black sometime in 2021, Alaska Air Group president and CEO Brad Tilden said.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
South African regional carrier SA Express moved a step closer to disappearing from the airline scene July 2 as the company’s joint provisional liquidators advertised its assets for sale.
Airlines & Lessors

Following a board meeting July 1, Thai Airways has appointed board member Chansin Treenuchagron as the flag-carrier’s new acting president, the second in three months.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Japan Airlines (JAL) plans to build up its domestic network toward its pre-COVID-19 size in 2020, as the airline’s passenger demand shows encouraging growth.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lori Ranson
Hawaiian Airlines is reinstating service on several routes to the U.S. mainland now that Hawaii is lifting its 14-day quarantine requirement for out-of-state travelers, providing they have already tested negative for COVID-19 prior to traveling.
Airports & Networks

By Chen Chuanren
A Cathay Pacific overnight flight to London July 1 was delayed when police stopped the Airbus A350-1000 and arrested a protester attempting to leave the territory after allegedly stabbing a police officer.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
South Korea's latest LCC Aero K expects to receive its air operator’s certificate (AOC) this month and has already begun performing approval flights for the country's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on domestic routes.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
El Al Israel Airlines has stopped all flying until July 31 while the outcome of drawn-out discussions with the Ministry of Finance regarding a $400 million state-guaranteed loan remains unclear.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick, Jens Flottau
Unstable approach set up fatal accident as pilots did not act on multiple cues.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ben Goldstein
United Airlines will add close to 25,000 flights in August, as it cautiously restores capacity in response to steadily increasing domestic travel demand.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
LONDON—Ryanair’s UK pilots have reached an agreement with the airline that will avert most of the 330 threatened job losses.
Airlines & Lessors

By Karen Walker
A huge hole in airline efforts to reassure passengers and crews that flying is safe was exposed this week during a US Senate hearing on the pandemic
Air Transport

By Alan Dron
LONDON—UK-based lessor and asset management specialist Falko Regional Aircraft will add 11 Bombardier CRJ900 regional jets to its portfolio in a sale and leaseback deal with Delta Air Lines.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
Aeromexico became the latest Latin American airline to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S., as the region’s carriers struggle to remain solvent in in the absence of federal government support.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
FRANKFURT—IATA warns that a recent rise in COVID-19 cases has already weakened bookings in the second half of June and could severely impact the expected recovery of air travel.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
UK-based Virgin Atlantic said July 1 that it was continuing to work on “a comprehensive, solvent recapitalization of the airline” to ensure it could continue to provide “essential connectivity and competition” for consumers and businesses.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
LONDON—UK ULCC easyJet plans to make more than 700 pilots redundant and close three of its British bases as it downsizes in the face of the novel coronavirus crisis.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has granted lease-payment deferrals to a further four customers and is evaluating another 28 requests, taking the total number of approaches to at least 58.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Ryanair has resumed operating over 1,000 daily flights across Europe, about 40% of its normal July capacity, as it returned to flying July 1 following the COVID-19 crisis.
Airlines & Lessors