U.S. airlines stripped their international schedules to skeletal levels over the weekend, parking their widebody fleets and signaling difficult decisions ahead over reining in labor costs.
This week: Pegasus Airlines is adding more capacity into Israel; Viva Air Colombia is moving into a market vacated by Avianca; and Delta Air Lines is resuming service between Seattle and Dallas/Ft. Worth after a 14-year hiatus.
Delta Air Lines will further ramp-up its presence at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), signaling an intention to fight back against the revamped West Coast alliance between American Airlines and Alaska Airlines.
As COVID-19 coronavirus spreads globally, the number of international departure seats from China is set to drop by more than 5.5 million in March 2020 as airlines across the world continue suspending service.
Delta Air Lines became the first North American carrier to announce service reductions to South Korea on Feb. 26, citing plummeting demand caused by the largest outbreak of COVID-19 outside of China.
Lufthansa and United Airlines are seriously considering a plan to jointly acquire TAP Portugal in an effort to protect their position in the Europe-Latin America market and keep Delta Air Lines from investing in another European carrier.
Weekly capacity between New York and Manchester during the summer is set to drop by a third compared with 2019, but United Airlines is awaiting price stabilization before deciding whether to expand.
Delta Air Lines plans to spend $1 billion over the next decade to “mitigate” all emissions from its business, investing in a wide range of initiatives to reduce or eliminate carbon emissions throughout its business.
