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Airline BusinessAirline coronavirus story could go from ‘Apocalypse Now’ to ‘The Big Short’
When IATA outled its latest estimates for the impact of coronavirus on the airline industry on 24 March, the urgency of the situation was front and centre of its messaging.
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Airline BusinessWizz warns full grounding a ‘distinct possibility’ as low-cost carriers pare back
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air has warned the grounding of its full fleet remains “a distinct possibility” as it has now reduced its operations to around 15% of its planned capacity.
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Airline BusinessWeek of 16 March in review: North American carriers reel from coronavirus fallout
The aviation and aerospace industry in North America experienced the most dramatic week since the days and weeks following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
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Airline BusinessWhich European carriers are suspending all flights because of coronavirus
European carriers have over the past week been announcing increasingly large cuts to their services, as country’s tighten their border controls. A number have called a halt to flights altogether for the coming weeks - or will just operate a few flights to accomodate returning nationals
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Airline BusinessAll tunnel, no light for Asia-Pacific airlines
The Asia-Pacific is seen as the engine of future aviation growth, but the coronavirus pandemic has brought its airline sector to its knees. Recent days have seen a collapse in air travel demand in the region. When news of coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan, China during January, comparisons were quickly ...
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Airline BusinessCoronavirus crisis to bring airline profits run to abrupt halt
While IATA stopped short of issuing any fresh forecasts for the year in its latest media briefing, the airline trade association left little doubt regarding the extent to which the coronavirus crisis will drive the industry’s unprecedented run of profits to an abrupt end.
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Airline BusinessHow coronavirus could impact airliner fleets across the globe
Worldwide fleet comprises over 25,000 aircraft, but what could effect be across regions?
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Airline BusinessEurope’s carriers lurch into full crisis-mode as capacity slashed
From the moment the World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on 13 March stated that Europe was now the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, further drastic cuts to air travel in the region seemed an inevitability.
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Airline BusinessConsolidation and record profits give US carriers some coronavirus defence
Industry consolidation and years of profits have left US airlines more prepared than ever to weather the falloff in demand created by the coronavirus outbreak, say industry analysts.
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Airline BusinessHow the 737 Max grounding changed commercial aerospace
One year has passed since regulators grounded the Boeing 737 Max in the wake of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, setting in motion events that transformed the aerospace industry.
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Airline BusinessCoronavirus downturn raises questions about demand for new passenger jets
Aerospace analysts are now considering whether the coronavirus-induced airline industry downturn, should it persist, might lead airlines to defer aircraft deliveries or even cancel orders. While aircraft makers say their industry remains healthy, the downturn is also raising questions about potential fallout to Boeing’s 737 Max, an aircraft Boeing expects will be certificated by mid-year.
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Airline BusinessBunk-beds to lounges: ultra-long haul interiors straddle comfort and economics
As Qantas nears its decision on undertaking ultra-long-haul flights, what should it pay heed to, in designing its cabin features?
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Airline BusinessWhy strong Ryanair and Wizz February traffic offers few clues to coronavirus impact
Monthly traffic figures for February released by Ryanair and Wizz Air today offer little indication of the impact on air travel demand of the spread of the coronavirus into Europe.
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Airline BusinessEuropean carriers hunker down for tough times from coronavirus outbreak
Any doubts as to whether the impact of the coronavirus outbreak would spread beyond Asia to European airlines has been answered by a slew of cost-savings measures, capacity cuts and warnings of potential earnings hits in the past few days.
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Airline BusinessHeathrow ruling suggests new legal front in airline sustainability battle
The UK appeal court’s ruling that plans for a third runway at London Heathrow airport are unlawful on climate grounds is in line with intensifying pressure on a commercial aviation industry that had been enjoying years on largely unconstrained growth.
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Airline BusinessTourism key as Turkish carriers target growth return in 2020
A mixed picture in which tourism grew strongly but domestic traffic was sharply down lay behind the first year in a decade in which annual passenger numbers fell at Turkey’s two biggest carriers in 2019.
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Airline BusinessNorwegian counts costs of 737 Max and Trent 1000 disruptions
Norwegian estimates that disruption from the Boeing 737 Max grounding and ongoing issues with the Rolls-Royce Trent engines on its 787 fleet have led to a combined NKr1.7 billion ($183 million) net loss for 2019.
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Airline BusinessHow low-cost carriers have capitalised on Italian airline failures
No European country’s carriers have struggled to secure or retain a leading presence in their own market more than Italian operators, as the collapse of Air Italy further illustrates.
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Airline BusinessWhy did Air Italy fail?
Air Italy’s collapse on 11 February reflects its inability to overcome a number of challenges in an Italian market that continues to be as tantalising for new entrants as it is punishingly tough on them.
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Airline BusinessWhy South African Airways network cuts prove painful to implement
One thing perennial struggler South African Airways has not been short of over the years is restructuring plans. Its latest, proposed under formal restructuring, features a further retrenchment that continues the paring back of its network.