All Airline Business articles – Page 37
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Airline BusinessHow European states stepped in to support grounded airlines in 2020
European governments have stepped in with an unprecedented level of financial support to keep airlines in the region afloat during the pandemic, with the likelihood of further funding required in the year to come.
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Airline BusinessWhich aircraft types did airlines fly for the last time in 2020?
Airlines phased out a series of aircraft types in 2020, some as part of planned renewals and others hastened departures accelerated by the impact of the global pandemic
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Airline BusinessHow might new Covid-19 strains affect the airline industry’s outlook?
The emergence of more infectious strains of Covid-19 and the consequent restrictions placed on travel to and from the UK, Denmark and South Africa could have significant implications for the airline industry’s recovery path.
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Airline BusinessWill airline failures increase when crisis subsides?
One of the most striking aspects of what is the deepest and most sustained crisis to ever hit commercial air transport is that it has resulted in relatively few airline collapses thus far.
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Airline BusinessWhy wider airline consolidation may have to wait
IAG has reportedly agreed fresh terms to acquire Spanish carrier Air Europa, but further deal activity across the industry may be delayed by the crisis.
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Airline BusinessIn pictures: The airline industry’s crisis year
A year that began with plenty of reasons for optimism about the industry’s prospects quickly turned into 12 months of unprecedented challenges, dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic
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Airline BusinessCan Chinese carriers build on domestic strength to make international recovery?
With Chinese carriers securing domestic recovery, the new year will bring an industry raring to recapture lost international share, with new players added to the fold.
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Airline BusinessWill Europe’s low-cost airlines lead the region out of the crisis?
The possibility that vaccines might begin to have a genuine impact on controlling the pandemic in Europe by the end of the first quarter of 2021 has changed the narrative.
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Airline BusinessTurbulence in South America’s airline industry will pass
Gol chief financial officer Richard Lark explains how current woes are being exacerbated by pre-pandemic overcapacity, but that they will be overcome in a region used to handling crises
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Airline BusinessAirline coronavirus recovery tracker: December 2020 update
Our regular examination of the latest global data for several key airline market indicators, including traffic and capacity in passenger and cargo markets, airport passenger throughput, in-service and stored fleets, jet fuel costs, and share price trends for the world’s largest groups.
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Airline BusinessJAL pursues path as urban air mobility innovator
Japan Airlines’ foray into the urban air mobility (UAM) sector could one day see the airline benefit from alternative revenue streams .
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Airline BusinessO’Leary pitches Ryanair’s unlikely union advantage
A few years ago the notion that Michael O’Leary would argue Ryanair’s relationship with its unions would give it a competitive advantage in the marketplace would seem absurd.
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Airline BusinessHow might air travel recovery shape up?
CTAIRA analyst Chris Tarry writes that there is not an existential threat to the industry as a whole, though there may be for some individual airlines, and that the opening up of markets will be a multi-paced affair
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Airline BusinessHow cargo revenue has offered a lifeline to carriers
The shortage of air freight capacity amid the coronavirus pandemic has offered opportunity for airlines, lessors, and cargo carriers to eke out some precious revenue. Half of global air freight in 2019 was carried in the bellies of passenger aircraft, so the grounding of thousands of aircraft this year depressed ...
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Airline BusinessBailouts renew states’ influence on European airlines
Decades after airlines started moving out of government control and competing in a deregulated market, the issue of state intervention has been brought sharply back into focus by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Airline BusinessParadox of the Asia-Pacific airline market recovery
When trying to gauge the prospects for a recovery in air travel, the Asia-Pacific market paradoxically offers both reasons for some of the brightest optimism and greatest concern for airlines. On the one hand Asia-Pacific carriers seem well placed in the mid-term to benefit from continued strength in the air ...
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Airline BusinessWhat challenges do airlines face as they reintroduce Boeing 737 Max jets?
With the US Federal Aviation Administration’s long-awaited recertification of the Boeing 737 Max being swiftly followed by the same from Brazil’s ANAC, carriers in the Americas are preparing to reintroduce the narrowbody type to paying passengers.
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Airline BusinessHow should airline leaders address the hole in their bucket?
Airline fortunes with their tight margins were already finely balanced even going into a crisis which may require a major revamp of their business models. Peter Davies, founder of Airline Management Group, argues different skills and strategies will be required to come through this and could require a rethink for some of a traditional reliance on business traffic.
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Airline BusinessKLM chief Elbers on vaccine boost, state support and ‘building back better’
With a government support package secured and better news on the health outlook, KLM is approaching 2021 on much more ‘solid ground’, according to the airline’s chief executive Pieter Elbers
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Airline BusinessWhy hubs could be back in fashion in post-crisis network recovery
While low-cost carriers are likely to be among the early beneficiaries of demand for price-sensitive leisure travel in the early stages of a post-pandemic recovery, the lower levels of overall traffic could also see mean renewed focus on hub operations.