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NewsLima and Seoul among 13 long-haul routes dropped from BA network
British Airways will permanently axe 13 long-haul destinations from its network next summer, and will suspend flights to Sydney, Bangkok and San Jose until October. From the start of the summer season in late March, the UK carrier will no longer serve the US cities of Charleston and Pittsburgh, or ...
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NewsUK Supreme Court rules in favour of Heathrow expansion
UK Supreme Court judges have ruled in favour of a government plan to build a third runway at London Heathrow, overturning an appeal court ruling against the scheme brought about by Friends of the Friends of the Earth and Plan B Earth. Earlier this year, the Court of Appeal had ...
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NewsUS airlines see potential in reshaped networks
US airlines are rethinking their network strategies to get the most out of the coronavirus-driven industry shifts.
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NewsTransat shareholders green light discounted sale to Air Canada
Shareholders of Transat AT, parent to leisure carrier Air Transat, have approved a plan under which Transat will be sold to Air Canada at a significant discount.
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NewsCorsair secures state aid as Intro and TUI sell stakes
The Europe Commission has approved €136.9 million ($166 million) in state aid for French leisure carrier Corsair.
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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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NewsHeathrow to keep Terminal 4 shut until end of 2021 as traffic slumps
London Heathrow airport is to keep Terminal 4 non-operational until the end of next year as a recovery in air traffic continues to falter. Passenger numbers fell by 88% in November at Europe’s biggest hub over the previous year as it handled just 747,000 passengers. Source: Heathrow airport ...
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NewsManchester among five new Air Baltic routes next summer
Latvian carrier Air Baltic will launch five new routes from its Riga base in the summer season, beginning 28 March.
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NewsBA CityFlyer launches 11 routes from Southampton
British Airways regional subsidiary BA CityFlyer is launching a flurry of new summer season routes from the UK’s Southampton airport to leisure destinations across Europe.
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NewsQatar Airways to launch Seattle service in March
Qatar Airways will add Seattle to its network in March, and has entered a frequent-flyer partnership with Alaska Airlines.
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NewsCargo recovery continues amid capacity crunch: IATA
Air freight demand continued its recovery in October, IATA figures show, as global cargo tonne-kilometres expanded 4.1% month on month. As a result, global demand as measured by CTKs was just 6.2% below the same month last year, after a 7.8% drop in September. Source: KLM Capacity, ...
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NewsOpportunistic Wizz eyes UK leisure market chance
Wizz Air’s move to launch leisure routes from Cardiff airport next summer marks a further demonstration of how its UK unit is pivoting to take advantage of opportunities that have emerged in the past year.
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OpinionBubbles, testing, vaccines, quarantines: airlines brace for complicated 2021
There is a high risk that a reduction in the threat posed by Covid-19 might only further expose a messy operating environment for international travel, stymieing the sector’s ability to take advantage of the virus’s reduced prevalence.
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NewsRyanair cements Italian presence with Venice Treviso base
Low-cost carrier Ryanair is to open a base at Venice Treviso airport in March, the airline’s 15th in Italy. Ryanair will base two aircraft there from 30 March, adding 18 new routes from the airport in the process. That will take to 45 the number of services it will operate ...
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NewsWizz adds to UK operations with Cardiff base
Wizz Air is further expanding its UK footprint by opening a base at Cardiff airport from which it will initially operate seven routes this summer. The base, operated by its British subsidiary Wizz Air UK, is its fourth in the UK. Alongside its established operation at London Luton, Wizz has ...
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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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NewsRyanair and Wizz traffic slips to lowest point since crisis peak
Ryanair and Wizz Air passenger numbers in November slipped to their lowest level since the peak of the pandemic earlier this year, as the low-cost carriers cut capacity amid a swathe of fresh lockdowns and travel restrictions.
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NewsHawaiian cuts service as Kauai opts out of pre-travel testing
The popular Hawaiian tourist destination Kauai has opted out of the state’s pre-travel coronavirus testing programme and re-imposed a mandatory quarantine for all inbound passengers, once again disrupting Hawaiian Airlines’ return to normal service.
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NewsAmerican launches coronavirus testing for Chile-bound travellers
American Airlines will introduce pre-departure testing for passengers travelling between its Miami International airport hub and Santiago, Chile next week.