Restart and Reconnect
As lockdowns ease, new market patterns, regulations and business practices are emerging. Those organizations that adapt most effectively will emerge… Read More »
Brazil’s Embraer says is cutting its workforce by 4.5%, or about 900 jobs
Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA (EMBR3.SA) said on Thursday it is reducing its workforce by 4.5%, or around 900 jobs, as… Read More »
United Now Expects to Furlough 16,000 Employees on October 1
United Airlines announced today that it plans on furloughing 16,370 employees, come October 1, when the federal government’s CARES Act payroll… Read More »
Colorado Official Asks DOT to Investigate Frontier Airlines
More than 100 complaints by consumers from 30 states were more than enough for Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. Weiser… Read More »
Aviation Industry Calling on Governments to Reopen Borders
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) revealed it is working with governments around the world to reopen borders and provide airlines with… Read More »
TSA Extends Touchless Self-Service Technology Test Program
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced it would continue operating pilot programs for its new touchless “self-service” technology at airports. The TSA… Read More »
Saudi Arabia to allow Israel-UAE overflights
Two days after the first-ever commercial flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia has said it would… Read More »
Qantas sells $369mn of bonds in oversubscribed issue
Qantas Group has shown that it can still access long-term funding from the bond market, issuing 10-year unsecured bonds worth… Read More »
Solomons to cut workforce by 20%
Solomons – Solomon Airlines (IE, Honiara) has announced that it will lay off 59 staff members, thus reducing the size… Read More »
India’s IndiGo completes A320neo engine replacement drive
IndiGo Airlines (6E, Delhi Int’l) has replaced faulty Pratt & Whitney PW1000-family engines powering all of its 128 A320neo Family… Read More »
Spirit adds Orange County to route map
Spirit Airlines is expanding in the Los Angeles area with the addition of John Wayne Airport to its route map…. Read More »
Aviation needs to ‘reinvent itself’ on sustainability
EasyJet director calls on industry to ensure governments have right policies in place. The coronavirus crisis has heightened the need… Read More »
Qatar Airways agrees delivery delays with Airbus, still talking to Boeing
Qatar Airways has struck a deal with Airbus SE (AIR.PA) to delay delivery of airplanes due to the pandemic-induced travel… Read More »
FBI opens probe into defunct US carrier OneJet CEO
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has allegedly launched a criminal investigation into defunct virtual carrier OneJet (J1, Pittsburgh Int’l),… Read More »
California’s Surf Air nets $200mn, hires industry veteran
Surf Air (URF, Santa Monica) has raised USD200 million in advance of plans to go public and has also hired… Read More »
UAE gov’t injects $2bn into Emirates
The government of the emirate of Dubai pumped AED7.3 billion dirhams (USD2 billion) into Emirates (EK, Dubai Int’l) earlier this… Read More »
Bank dangles more incentives for HDC to buy Korea’s Asiana
State-owned Korea Development Bank, the main creditor of Asiana Airlines (OZ, Seoul Incheon), has offered further financial incentives to ease… Read More »
Audit points to graft, mismanagement at Thai Airways
A governmental audit has identified multiple cases of graft, corruption, and wrong business decisions as the reasons for Thai Airways… Read More »
Pakistan’s Serene Air adds maiden widebody, an A330-200
Serene Air (ER, Islamabad Quaid-e-Azam Int’l) took delivery of its first widebody aircraft, an A330-200, on August 27, 2020. AP-BNE… Read More »
Emirates, flydubai resume codesharing, enlarging route networks
Flydubai carries Emirates passengers to several East European destinations not served by the long-haul specialist. The gradual restoration of the… Read More »
EgyptAir and Air Cairo sign codeshare agreement
The two carriers have agreed a codeshare deal less than four months after signing a Memorandum of Understanding to increase… Read More »
Recovery Tracker: International travel reduction hits the UK
Continuing uncertainty around international travel restrictions designed to curb the spread of COVID-19 continues to hurt the UK economy, a… Read More »