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Heathrow Airport losses top £2 billion in pandemic-hit 2020
London Heathrow airport’s operator ended last year with enough liquidity to see it through until 2023 after a dreadful 12 months in which it lost just over £2 billion ($2.8 billion).
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Thai AirAsia eyes April domestic restart amid widening losses
Thai AirAsia expects to resume all domestic flights by April, even as its parent company’s full-year losses widen amid the impact from the coronavirus pandemic.
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UK bookings surge on lockdown exit plan
Airlines have seen a jump in UK ticket sales in the hours after the government published information on the national plan for exiting lockdown.
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Gulf Air to make Singapore return in April
Gulf Air is to launch a weekly service from Bahrain to Singapore in April, reviving a route it last operated more than a decade ago. The Bahraini carrier will deploy a Boeing 787-9 on the service to Singapore, which it describes as a ”boutique destination”. Source: Soos Jozsef/Shutterstock.com ...
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Airline Business
Airline Business special: CEOs to watch in 2021
As the Covid-19 crisis moves into its second year, we feature some of the airline chiefs whose success or otherwise will be bellwethers of the industry’s recovery in 2021.
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Domestic travel curbs punish China’s ‘Big Three’ traffic recovery
China’s three largest carriers started the year with domestic traffic continuing to decline, amid travel restrictions imposed to curb a resurgence in local coronavirus cases.
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United to add Boston-Heathrow route
United Airlines will launch a daily nonstop route from Boston Logan to London Heathrow this year, assuming travel restrictions diminish and demand materialises.
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Airline Business
As they firefight, airlines shouldn’t ignore changing fundamentals
There is no point making it through to more stable times, only to realise that your pre-pandemic assumptions don’t apply in the new reality.
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Airline Business
Boeing 737 Max service return in the Americas gathers pace
Airlines across the Americas are first to test customer appetite for the aircraft in much-changed operating climate
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American and JetBlue unveil first phase of collaboration
American Airlines and JetBlue Airways have unveiled new routes as they begin to consummate their strategic partnership.
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Flydubai works on restoring Max flights after UAE approval
Flydubai is to start the process of returning its Boeing 737 Max aircraft to service after the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) cleared the type for operations again.
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Weak China Lunar New Year traffic offers little festive cheer
Chinese airlines carried just 3.57 million passengers across the seven-day Lunar New Year public holiday period, in what the country’s civil aviation regulators have called a “sharp drop” in passenger traffic amid a resurgence in the coronavirus.
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Cathay’s January passenger load factor sinks to dismal 13.3%
Cathay Pacific reported its lowest ever passenger load factor in January, with passenger numbers for the month plunging to six-month lows, as it confronts an “extremely challenging” start to 2021.
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At 6% of flights, long-haul services emit 51% of CO2: Eurocontrol
Long-haul services departing European airports accounted for more than half the CO2 emissions from all operations in 2020, despite making up just 6% of flights, according to Eurocontrol data.
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Passengers down 70% at Dubai International last year
Dubai International’s passenger numbers collapsed in 2020, but the airport operator is reporting “positive strides” in the second half of the year.
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European ministers sign off on summer slot rules revision for airlines
European transport ministers have today formally approved temporary rules under which airlines will only have to use a minimum of 50% of their take-off and landing slots during the forthcoming summer season to retain them for 2022.
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Airline Business
Airlines anxiously await international rescue as variants trump vaccines
Concerns about variants of Covid-19 are spoiling what was, towards the end of 2020, expected to be a turning point for international air travel.
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German government finalises airport support package
The German government has agreed a financial support package for airports under which the nation’s 15 largest gateways will receive more than €600 million ($725 million).
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2020 was worst for European airport traffic in 25 years
Trade body ACI Europe is calling for further financial support for European airports as they struggle for survival after a year in which passenger volumes fell back to levels last seen 25 years ago.
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Spirit targets return to full capacity in summer
Spirit Airlines made a $508 million operating loss in 2020 but plans to return to full pre-pandemic capacity levels by the summer travel season and take delivery of 16 aircraft by year-end. The US low-cost carrier’s 2020 loss compared with a $501 million profit in 2019. The rising number of ...