Brussels Airlines will restart its commercial flights from its hub at Brussels Airport on June 15. Based on market demand and ongoing travel restrictions, the airline will offer an adapted and downsized summer schedule, which will consist of approximately 30% of Brussels Airlines’ originally planned summer schedule in Europe and 40% of the long-haul summer
Air New Zealand is extending the timeframe for its significantly reduced network, with its minimal international operations to continue through to August 31, 2020. In response to government travel restrictions and low demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the airline previously announced a limited international network through to June 30, to keep air links open
Air Canada is offering customers a choice of nearly 100 destinations in Canada, the U.S. and around the world with an abridged schedule this summer. To ensure customers can book with confidence, the airline has implemented the Air Canada CleanCare+ biosecurity program and is introducing new cancellation options, retroactive to March 1, 2020, to give customers
Austrian Airlines has reached an agreement with its technical and commercial staff. This includes the stations as well as technical and administrative employees, comprising close to 3,000 of the 7,000 people working for Austria’s national carrier. Austrian Airlines anticipates a very slow recovery after the pandemic crisis. In order to retain as many employees as
easyJet will resume some flights on June 15. Services will be operating from London Gatwick, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Belfast, and Isle of Man in the U.K. In addition, flying will resume in France from Nice, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes, Lyon and Lille, as well as from Geneva in
JetBlue will extend through the July 4 holiday its commitment to seat distancing by blocking middle seats in rows where parties are not traveling together. The policy, part of the airline’s multi-layered “Safety from the Ground Up” program, comes as the airline is also set to roll out temperature monitoring for its flight and inflight
The first stage of the strategic partnership between Qatar Airways and American Airlines hast started, with Qatar Airways placing its code on American Airlines’ domestic flights, strengthening connectivity and creating hundreds of new travel options for passengers. The codeshare will be rolled out in phases over the next few weeks and once completed, will see
Emirates Group (Emirates) is looking to make substantial cuts in its workforce as it tries to mitigate the financial costs of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Bloomberg news. The Gulf carrier suspended all regular passenger flights in March and like all airlines has struggled to cope, financially, with the approximate 95% drop in demand for
Ryanair has reduced its office headcount in Dublin, Stansted, Madrid and Wroclaw by over 250 through a combination of probation/fixed-term contract ends, resignations and redundancies, as these people will not be required to return to work on June 1, when the Ryanair offices reopen after the pandemic shut-down. Ryanair has operated less than 1% of
SWISS International Airlines will partially restart its flight operations in June and plans to operate up to 190 flights from Zurich and Geneva to 41 European destinations. The ramp-up will follow in stages, and the range of flights available will gradually be increased over the weeks ahead. SWISS will resume services to various Mediterranean destinations,
