American Airlines has expanded its cargo schedule in May to provide 140 weekly flights to 15 cities in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Caribbean, up from 80 flights last week. New destinations include daily flights between Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) and Hong Kong (HKG); and weekly flights from DFW and Beijing (PEK); DFW Chicago (ORD) and
Air travel will gradually start to recover as travel restrictions are lifted. To make flying as safe as possible, Finnair is preparing to gradually grow passenger numbers with several new measures. “Now that air travel gradually begins to recover and passenger numbers start to grow, we want everyone to be able to fly with confidence”,
The Brussels Airlines management has presented its turnaround plan to the social partners. With the plan, the Belgian airline wants to pull the company out of the crisis that severely hit the financials of Brussels Airlines. At the same time, the airline focuses on structural profitability in order to enable solid growth. The carrier therefore
Starting in June, Lufthansa, Eurowings and SWISS will be offering monthly flight schedules to more destinations in Germany and Europe than in the past few weeks. The repatriation schedules will end on May 31. A total of 80 aircraft will be reactivated within the “June timetable”. This means that a total of 106 destinations will
Having previously denied Spirit Airlines Co’s request to suspend a number of flights during the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Transport has now decided to let the airline halt some flights until September 30, while also allowing JetBlue Airways to reduce the number of flights it operates over the same period of time. Demand
Cascadia Air, British Columbia’s newest commuter airline, has opted to forego the launch of its commercial air-taxi flights to instead provide Rapid Emergency Air Delivery (READY) services, to support smaller remote communities across BC as they slowly recover from the social and economic disruptions caused by COVID-19. With more than three decades of commercial aviation,
British Airways, the U.K flag. carrying airline and part of IAG, has written to its staff at its Gatwick, London hub advising them that having shut down all operations at the beginning of April this year owing to the impact of the COVID-19 , it may choose not to reopen there. The letter was sent
Having posted its worst-ever quarterly loss, British Airways (BA), part of IAG, has announced its intention to lay off over 25% of its 45,000-strong workforce. Alex Cruz, BA CEO, has written to staff making it clear that there is little point in continuing with the U.K. government furlough scheme where 80% of staff wages up
Despite adjustments to various procedures while on board an aircraft, social distancing is not always possible. Therefore, in order to increase the protection of passengers and crew from the transmission of the Covid-19 virus, beginning Monday, May 4, the airlines of the Lufthansa Group are requiring that all passengers wear a facial mouth/nose covering for
As a result of COVID-19, demand for air travel is expected to be significantly affected during the remainder of 2020 and it will take some years before demand returns to the levels experienced before the outbreak. Consequently, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) needs to adapt the business to a lower-demand environment, so the Scandinavian carrier will initiate
