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Airline BusinessHow trust strained by the DC-10 fractured with the 737 Max
As the domino-chain grounding of the Boeing 737 Max and its gradual patchwork rehabilitation have revealed, unanimous agreement that air safety is paramount does not necessarily translate into a harmonised approach to delivering it. When the European Union Aviation Safety Agency grounded the Max in March 2019, the US FAA ...
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Airline BusinessStage set for battle royale among Australia’s domestic carriers
With international borders likely to be shut for most of the year, Australia’s airlines are focusing their energies on capturing domestic market share. This year, new entrant Rex enters the domestic trunk network, while a rebooted Virgin Australia takes flight after exiting administration. How will this battle shape out, and will there be casualties?
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Airline BusinessUnited expects expanded profit margins by 2023
United Airlines expects to exceed its 2019 profit margin by 2023, executives say a day after the airline reported a $7.1 billion full-year loss for coronavirus-plagued 2020.
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Airline BusinessSAS leans on domestic markets amid intensifying competition
Large domestic markets have helped ease several carriers through the Covid-19 crisis, as travel restrictions and a fear of moving across borders bolster internal demand within countries with large populations and territories.
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Airline BusinessWhat does Norwegian exit mean for long-haul, low-cost adventure?
Norwegian is ditching the long-haul, low-cost model it pioneered over the past decade, but will the carrier’s legacy be a longer lasting impact on the transatlantic market?
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Airline BusinessIndian airlines brace for transformational 2021
Three major themes will shape India’s airline sector this year: vaccinations, a battle for survival at India’s smaller carriers, and consolidation.
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Airline BusinessDoes shift towards pre-flight Covid-19 testing spell disaster for airlines?
The tightening of border controls is an emerging theme in the early days of 2021, as governments react to concerns about new variants of Covid-19 and soaring infection rates in many regions.
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Airline BusinessVaccines, testing key for Asia-Pacific recovery this year: IATA
IATA’s Asia-Pacific head Conrad Clifford is optimistic that vaccines will start to relieve the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, but that airlines still face a very tough year.
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Airline BusinessAsia-Pacific cautious about 737 Max return
Regulators and airlines in the Asia-Pacific are taking a wait-and-see approach in regard to getting the Boeing 737 Max flying again in the type’s biggest market.
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Airline BusinessVaccine rally takes edge off tumbling airline share prices in 2020
Share prices of many leading airline groups ended 2020 down between a third to a half during a torrid year for the sector.
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Airline BusinessWhich airlines launched, failed or merged during 2020
Such has been the magnitude of the pandemic impact on air travel demand that the airline industry has to some extent been in a stasis since March - and with it so too has much of the normal merger activity, start-ups and airline failures.
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Airline BusinessWill new realities clear path for Qantas-JAL joint venture approval?
The proposed joint venture between Japan Airlines (JAL) and Qantas underlines the horrendous state and uncertain future of Asia-Pacific’s international air travel markets.
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Airline BusinessHow many jobs have Europe’s airlines cut in 2020?
Tens of thousands of jobs have been lost in Europe’s airline sector since the crisis began, as carriers seek to reduce cash burn and ‘right-size’ for the eventual recovery in demand.
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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 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 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.