AirlinesTravel Restrictions Raise Fear of More Painful Airline Recovery Airlines worldwide battling for survival continue to face grave uncertainty about the terms under which they will be able to expand services and restore badly depleted revenue streams as most governments continue to enforce varying degrees of restriction on cross-border passenger movement. Now several states are considering quarantine requirements that would make travel extremely unattractive. That, along with load-factor-limiting measures such as calls to keep seats unoccupied have rendered international flying almost completely unviable for airlines.
LinkColombia’s Viva Air Sees Benefits Arising From The Current Crisis The Colombian low-cost carrier Viva Air Colombia is confident that it will be able to expand its international and domestic services. Felix Antelo, Viva Air CEO, expects good growth after the coronavirus pandemic ends, and Colombia opens up its airspace. Let’s investigate further.
LinkIreland’s Ryanair Accepts $730 Million UK Government Backed Loan Ireland-based Ryanair has received £600m (about $730 million) from the United Kingdom’s Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF). This move comes as the low-cost carrier’s CEO has been critical of state aid to airlines.
LinkWow: Hi Fly’s Airbus A380 Circumnavigates The World In 34 Hours Hi Fly’s Airbus A380 has been flying a lot in the last few days. In fact, within the span of four days (May 14th to May 18th) and a total flight time of 33.75 hours, the superjumbo has managed to circumnavigate the world as part of humanitarian efforts related to COVID-19 relief.
LinkThe One Man Mission To Save South African Airways South African Airways (SAA) is in a state of uncertainty at the moment. The national airline for South Africa was put into Business Rescue earlier this year after facing insurmountable financial troubles over the past few years. COVID-19 undoubtedly made the airline’s problems worse. There is one key name that continues to appear in any news related to the airline’s restructuring and recovery: Pravin Gordhan.
LinkAre Air Canada’s Layoffs A Negotiating Tactic? Last Friday, Air Canada revealed plans to cut roughly 20,000 jobs from its workforce within the next three weeks. With many still trying to comprehend the magnitude of such a move from Canada’s largest airline, some are wondering if the release of the news is part of a broader strategy…
LinkFinnair Strips Economy Seats From 2 Airbus A330s Following the conversion of two A350s for cargo operations, Finnair has gone ahead and turned two of its smaller A330s into cargo shifters too. The two aircraft were modified in less than two days, removing passenger seats and installing cargo nets to transport lighter loads in the cabin.
LinkFinnair Looks To Increase Schedule In Europe And Asia In a press release issued Monday, Finnish flag-carrier Finnair announced its gradual resumption of regular commercial services. The airline said it would be back to operating 30% of flights starting from July.
LinkQatar Airways Will Require Crew To Wear Full Body Protection Qatar Airways has revealed that cabin crew will be required to wear full-body personal protective equipment (PPE). Passengers will also be required to wear face coverings onboard from May 25th.
LinkThai Airways Is Planning To Start Bankruptcy Proceedings On Monday, a senior official for Thai Airways International (THAI) said that the government of Thailand intends to go to the bankruptcy court to submit a rehabilitation plan for its national airline. The government, which owns 51% of THAI, is thus opting out of a previously drafted rescue plan for the carrier.
LinkIn Photos: Icelandair Strips Boeing 767 Of Seats To Make Freighter Earlier this month, Icelandair joined the ranks of commercial airlines beginning to move cargo with passenger planes. To make this change of operations as successful as possible, Icelandair has undertaken a swift conversion of the cabin space, removing passenger seats to make way for boxes.
LinkKorea’s LCC T’Way Air Eyes Croatia As Next Destination T’Way Air, a South Korean low-cost carrier founded in 2010, has been given a license last week to operate flights to Croatia and Tajikistan. The license to Croatia is for four weekly year-round services, replacing the license previously given to Korean Air for its flights to Zagreb. Let’s take a look at what this means.
LinkBritish Airways’ First Boeing 787-10 – Ready For Delivery It seems as though British Airways is finally gearing up to take delivery of its first Boeing 787-10 aircraft. The aircraft had been due to be delivered in January of this year. However, this was pushed back.
LinkRyanair Posts Full Year Profit Despite Onset Of Coronavirus Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair has today reported a post-tax profit of one billion euros for the year ending March 31. However, it said that due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was unable to provide a forecast for the coming year.
LinkEmirates Cuts Complimentary WiFi And Live TV Onboard Flights Reports have emerged over the weekend that Emirates will no longer offer free WiFi nor live TV onboard. The changes were noticed as these options have disappeared from the airline’s website. As airlines around the world search for ways to reduce costs and reduce their rate of cash burn, we’ve seen a lot of news around job cuts. While a bit of a surprise to us coming from Emirates, this change is very much in line with the broader industry trend of cost-cutting.
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