AirlinesDelta Air Lines Is Getting A Revenue Premium From Blocking Seats The airline industry for the last year has been shaken up due to the ongoing crisis. As borders remain closed and entry requirements continue to change, carriers are adapting and learning new things on a near daily basis. Many airlines noted that blocked seats onboard an aircraft artificially cap capacity at a time when carriers need all the revenue they can get. One airline that bucked that is Delta.
LinkBrazil’s GOL Expects To Operate Over 1000 MAX Flights This Month In January, GOL Linhas Aereas expects to operate 1,111 flights with its Boeing 737 MAX fleet. The carrier will deploy twice as much MAX capacity as the second-largest operator at the moment, Grupo Aeromexico, in a show of the confidence the Brazilian airline has in the troubled narrowbody after 20 months grounded.
LinkWhat Happened To US Low-Cost Airline Delta Express? Delta Air Lines launched a new carrier in 1996 to compete with low-cost competitors that were flying on 60% of the company’s domestic routes. However, the livery of this no-frills “airline within an airline” would no longer be seen at airports by the time 2003 got underway.
LinkEmirates Plans To Operate Entire Fleet By 2022 Emirates is planning to operate its entire fleet of aircraft by the end of 2021, according to reports today. While a large portion of the airline’s Boeing 777 fleet is currently flying, very few of its Airbus A380s are presently active.
LinkBritish Airways Completes Rollout Of ‘World Leading’ Inflight Internet The European Aviation Network (EAN) rollout has been completed on the British Airways short-haul fleet. This has seen its entire Airbus narrowbody fleet equipped with Inmarsat’s EAN technology. As well as this, Inmarsat has been named the ‘World’s Leading Inflight Internet Service Provider’ for the fourth year in a row at the World Travel Awards 2020.
LinkDelta Air Lines Posts $12.4 Billion Loss For 2020 Today, Delta Air Lines released its Q4 results and its annual results for one of the most difficult years in aviation history. Unsurprisingly, the results are not good. The airline posted a $755 million net loss in the fourth quarter and a massive $12.4 billion net loss for the whole year. According to statistics, that makes 2020 the worst year in the airline’s history.
LinkIAG Cargo Has Shipped Over 1 Million COVID-19 Vacccines Around the world, countries are steadily vaccinating their populations against COVID-19. Globally, airlines are helping in the distribution of these vaccine doses. Europe’s IAG Cargo has carried over one million vaccines worldwide.
LinkThai Airways Is On Track With Its Rescue Plan Thai Airways acting president Chansin Treenuchagron claims the airline is still on schedule with its debt rehabilitation plan. Thai Airways has until February 2nd to submit its plan to the Central Bankruptcy Court in Thailand after it was granted a one-month extension.
LinkWhy Some Airlines Lease Aircraft Rather Than Buying Them Ordering new aircraft is a big step for any airline, requiring research, demand, and most importantly, finances. Due to the last point, many airlines opt to lease their aircraft from a lessor rather than buy them outright. So why do airlines do this?
LinkNorwegian ends long-haul operations to re-focus The long-haul low-cost carrier Norwegian will drop the long-haul from its business model, as the company looks into the future past its current restructuring process.
Norwegian, in an announcement on the Oslo Stock Exchange, indicated that it “will henceforth focus on its core Nordics business, operating a European short-haul network with narrow-body aircraft. Under these circumstances, a long haul operation is not viable for Norwegian and these operations will therefore not continue.”
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