American Airlines has reached an agreement with Boeing to defer delivery of up to 18 737 MAX airliners over the next two years, in a bid to further rein in spending following its third consecutive quarterly loss in 2020.
Lufthansa Cargo will continue to flexibly manage its freighter fleet of Boeing 777Fs and MD-11Fs in the coming months as belly capacity on passenger long-haul routes is curtailed by fewer flights amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hawaiian Airlines is resuming U.S. East Coast flying in December, reinstating the two farthest regularly scheduled domestic passenger routes in the world.
Icelandair plans to reduce seat capacity for summer 2021 by around 25-30% compared to the same season in 2019 as the flag-carrier expects the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will still be significant.
The crippling “second wave” of COVID-19 infections spreading across the globe has forced International Airlines Group (IAG) to make yet more cuts in its winter timetables.
Air Astana will reduce its scheduled services to some international destinations during the autumn-winter season, as point-to-point international leisure travel is showing signs of a speedier recovery.
The chairman of the U.S. House subcommittee overseeing the U.S. government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic called on four cargo carriers to repay more than $600 million in federal payroll support, arguing the funds were not needed in light of the cargo sector’s resiliency during the crisis.
IATA has significantly downgraded its estimates for 2020 passenger traffic for both Africa and the Middle East, as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and governments’ reactions to it continue to stifle any revival.
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi has completed the last regulatory step prior to starting operations with the receipt of its air operator certificate (AOC) from the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA).
Cathay Pacific is confident its latest restructuring moves—including major workforce cuts and axing the Cathay Dragon brand—will allow it to reduce costs sufficiently to weather the COVID-19 crisis.
Regional carrier China Express Airlines and the city of Quzhou inked a cooperation agreement on Oct.21 that could see the launch of a new airline in China's Zhejiang province.
Lufthansa Group is revising further downwards its capacity planning for the 2020 fourth quarter (Q4), now that air transport demand in Europe is contracting further and no substantial re-opening of long-haul flights is in sight.
France has so far lost 100 million passengers and 700,000 flights as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, air traffic management organization Eurocontrol said Oct. 20.
The pace of progress in establishing air links between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has stepped up several notches with a flurry of announcements.
Seeing a potential uptick in air cargo and transit passengers to metro New York, Singapore Airlines (SIA) will resume the world’s longest scheduled flight between Singapore and New York-JFK starting Nov. 9.
Emirates has formed an interline agreement with Airlink, the Johannesburg-based airline which previously provided feed for South African Airways’ (SAA) long-haul routes.
