Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
United Airlines selected current EVP and chief administrative officer Brett Hart as the company’s next president, part of a leadership transition that
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
Some U.S. airlines have discovered a workaround to the CARES Act’s prohibition on employee pay cuts, and their unions are not having any of it.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
There are now at least 19 entities expressing interest in buying Virgin Australia during the airline’s administration proceedings, according to court documents.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
Etihad Airways plans to restore service from Melbourne, Australia (MEL) to London Heathrow (LHR) via its hub in Abu Dhabi (AUH) after it was suspended because of the COVID-19 crisis.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is considering selling up to 25,000,000 Virgin Galactic shares to raise funds for the group’s travel businesses, which have been hard-hit by COVID-19.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
Fast-growing LCC Vietjet Air has posted its first quarterly loss since listing on the Ho Chi Minh stock exchange in February 2017, attributable to COVID-19 flight restrictions and passenger drop-off.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
ULCC Ryanair plans a swift increase in its schedules over the summer with 40% of its usual flights set to operate from July 1, the carrier said May 12.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Lufthansa-owned Brussels Airlines plans to cut its 4,000-strong workforce by a quarter and reduce its fleet by 30%, an overhaul driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
Welcome to Routes’ weekly look at how the Middle East and African aviation markets are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, helping you understand the schedule changes and manage the impact so we can navigate through this crisis together.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
How airlines around the world are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
SINGAPORE—Two weeks after the planned closure of Terminal 2, Singapore Changi Airport (SIN) has announced the suspension of Terminal 4 operations
Airports & Networks

By Bradley Perrett
BEIJING—Chinese airlines will run 24 evacuation charter flights from the U.S. between May 14 and June 1.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
Delta Air Lines will consolidate service from 10 secondary airports into nearby metro hubs, as it looks to eliminate unprofitable flying while adhering to minimum service levels in the CARES Act stimulus law.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
Frontier Airlines became the first U.S. carrier to announce plans to screen temperatures at the gate, as calls for a uniform screening policy gather steam across the industry and on Capitol Hill.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Italy plans to invest at least €3 billion ($3.2 billion) in relaunching newly renationalized Alitalia and is eyeing the long-haul market, according to economic development minister Stefano Patuanelli.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The UK’s plan to impose a 14-day quarantine on passengers arriving from abroad will force International Airlines Group (IAG) to rethink its post-lockdown plans, its CEO said May 11, echoing criticisms from across the UK aviation industry.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
Welcome to Routes’ look at how the North American aviation market is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, helping you understand the schedule changes and manage the impact so we can navigate through this crisis together.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
SIA Engineering (SIAEC) has remained profitable, even as mass aircraft groundings and disruptions plague the Singapore air hub amid the COVID-19 crisis.
MRO

By Chen Chuanren
The Indonesian government is in the process of helping Garuda Indonesia draft a $1 billion financing proposal as the state-controlled airline has a $500 million Islamic bond (sukuk) due in June.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
Avianca Holdings, one of Latin America‘s largest airlines, has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York after failing to secure a government bailout before the deadline for a $66 million bond repayment due this month.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
SALZBURG—As part of its new program that reconfigures passenger aircraft for cargo operations in the age of COVID-19, Lufthansa Technik has signed its first agreement to convert an Airbus A380.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
The big aircraft-leasing players are fond of saying that large, geographically diversified customer lists are the key to keeping aircraft busy and revenue flowing in.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
Delta Air Lines and LATAM Airlines Group signed their long-planned joint venture (JV) agreement between North and South America, an affirmation of
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
Lessors across the industry are dutifully managing requests for payment deferrals from a majority of customers, but other issues created by the global pandemic are proving more difficult to handle.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Further glimmers of light at the end of the pandemic tunnel have come from a trio of carriers announcing the resumption of services over their networks.
Airlines & Lessors