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American expands international schedule from Miami
American Airlines is expanding international service from its Miami hub, with new direct flights to Tel Aviv and Paramaribo, Suriname, set to launch in June and July, respectively.
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Airline Business
Airline coronavirus recovery tracker: February 2021 update
Our regular examination of the latest global data for several key airline market indicators, including international and domestic travel restrictions, traffic and capacity in passenger and cargo markets, in-service and stored fleets, jet fuel costs, and share price trends for the world’s largest groups.
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Wizz to close Trondheim base
Wizz Air is to close its recently opened Tronheim base as Covid-19 continues to disrupt air travel in Norway.
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Norwegian flew eight aircraft on average in restriction-hit January
Restructuring low-cost carrier Norwegian operated an average of just eight aircraft in January as a result of services curtailed by travel restrictions.
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Air cargo demand decline in 2020 ‘worst since records began’
The air cargo sector – touted as the airline industry’s bright spot during the coronavirus crisis – saw its largest year-on-year fall in demand since IATA records began during 2020, although the final quarter brought signs of the gap closing.
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Wizz to open Sarajevo base in May
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air is establishing a base in Sarajevo, in an effort to boost its market position in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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IATA outlines scenario where Covid variants pummel 2021 traffic
The global airline industry might only see traffic growth of around 13% from 2020 levels this year amid the impact of new variants of Covid-19, according to a potential scenarios presented by IATA.
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UK advertising body rules Ryanair vaccine claims ‘misleading’
The UK Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that Ryanair “Jab and go” television advertisements must not be broadcast again in forms that attracted more than 2,300 complaints.
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Qantas could launch Project Sunrise flights in 2024
Qantas could introduce ultra-long-haul flights under its delayed Project Sunrise programme as soon as 2024, according to the carrier’s chief executive, Alan Joyce.
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A380 can return and generate cash: Qantas chief
Qantas is likely to fly its Airbus A380s again, according to the Australian carrier’s chief executive Alan Joyce, particularly on routes where tight scheduling is a factor.
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Myanmar’s Yangon International airport closed after military coup
Myanmar has shut its primary gateway Yangon International airport, after the military seized power on 1 February.
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Airline Business
Traffic data shows how pandemic upset traditional hub dominance in 2020
Trying to make sense of the passenger traffic data for 2020 at airports is a nigh on impossible task given the dramatic declines reported across the globe. For an industry coming off the back of a decade of non-stop growth, at largely above-trend rates, the levels of traffic falls are ...
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Ryanair suffers heaviest traffic fall in January since crisis peak
Traffic figures from Ryanair, Europe’s biggest carrier by passenger numbers and the first in the region to report data for January, illustrate the extent to which heightened travel restrictions have further hit demand.
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Germany shuts border to travellers from Ireland and Portugal
Germany has shut its border to two fellow European Union nations in an effort to halt the spread of coronavirus mutations that are more-easily transmitted.
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Canada suspends all flights to Mexico and the Caribbean
Canadian airlines will suspend all flights to Mexico and the Caribbean for the next three months as the country imposes even stricter measures to stem the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.
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ANA taps into bellyhold cargo in Okinawa logistics hub revamp
The ANA Group will make use of bellyhold cargo of flights at Okinawa island’s Naha airport in its plans to revamp the island’s logistics hub into a new network model.
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Europe’s air traffic outlook a ‘complete disaster’ until at least April
Europe faces a “quickly deteriorating” situation in terms of falling air traffic during the first quarter, with competing “reasonable” assumptions regarding a significant improvement or otherwise from April onwards, according to the latest short-term forecast data from Eurocontrol.
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Singapore Airlines to fly first redeployed SilkAir 737-800 in March
Singapore Airlines will begin operating the first of nine ex-SilkAir Boeing 737-800s from March, as it expects the integration of the latter into mainline operations to be completed by April 2022.
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EasyJet operating 10% capacity but eyes chances to pounce
EasyJet expects to operate only around 10% of its capacity during the first quarter of the calendar year as travel restrictions tighten, but believes it can quickly capitalise on opportunities at key airports where rivals have retrenched. In a trading update today, the UK low-cost carrier says it carried almost ...
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Air Transat cancels all flights to and from Toronto
Canada’s Air Transat, the country’s third largest passenger carrier, has suspended all flights from Toronto for the rest of the winter season citing new travel restrictions that make conducting normal operations almost impossible.