Indonesia’s largest low-cost airline Lion Air will suspend all flights from June 5 citing poor passenger carriage as travelers struggle to fulfil the strict requirements needed to fly after movement control restrictions were lifted.
U.S. airlines have regained access to the international Chinese market in a revision of regulations that China issued a day after its own access to the U.S. market was threatened.
Privately owned South African carrier Comair, which operates LCC kulula.com and franchise flights for British Airways (BA), is in talks with six potential investors while eyeing a domestic relaunch by Nov. 1 with a downsized fleet.
Lufthansa is preparing “extensive postponements” of aircraft deliveries over several years as it focuses on reducing investment spending and maximizing cashflow in what is expected to be a slow recovery after the coronavirus pandemic.
While many airline executives predict the recovery in air travel demand will be U-shaped or V-shaped, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian thinks it will probably look more like the Nike “Swoosh” logo.
The airline industry has produced almost exclusively bad news ever since the coronavirus pandemic began to have an impact on the industry globally in early March.
The global air freight market plummeted by 27.7% in April compared to the same period in 2019, as the full effect of the COVID-19 pandemic was felt around the world.
Indian carrier IndiGo slipped to a net loss in the first quarter of the year, largely due to plummeting demand caused by the COVID-19 crisis coupled with travel restrictions.
SINGAPORE—Singapore Airlines (SIA) has increased its capacity by 2% for June and July compared to May, albeit a 94% reduction of its schedule planned before COVID-19 hit.
EasyJet has said it will have resumed flights to almost three-quarters of its route network by the end of August as London City Airport (LCY) said separately that it would reopen at the end of June as COVID-19 lockdowns are lifted.
FRANKFURT—TUI Group has reached an agreement with Boeing over compensation for delayed 737 MAX deliveries and a new schedule that will see the airline take outstanding deliveries much later.
Business-rescue practitioners seeking to save South African Airways (SAA) have put forward a draft restructuring plan that would see the carrier’s 49-strong fleet slimmed to 21 aircraft over the mid-term.
Southwest Airlines plans to shrink its headcount through employee buyouts, as it seeks to align staffing levels with the decline in demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Emirates Airline would welcome a partnership with a large U.S. airline, but alliance-related politics and a long-simmering but recently solved row over subsidies continue to present major hurdles, Emirates president Tim Clark suggested.
The field of suitors for Virgin Australia has narrowed to two, with Bain Capital and Cyrus Capital Partners shortlisted by the administrator as the preferred bidders.
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.
Southwest Airlines has said it received its second disbursement of payroll support from the U.S. federal government, which will enable the airline carrying the most U.S. domestic air passengers to avoid furloughs or shrinking the size of the LCC through Sept. 30.
