In 2021, airlines must address cash burn and adjust to being smaller.

American knows those who fly the MAX can best speak to its safety.

This will be a bleak winter and there will be failures. But it will not be a winter without hope. Vaccine distribution has begun sooner than most dared to believe, certainly well inside the air transport industry’s most optimistic expectations.

The Dec. 15 news that US President-elect Joe Biden will nominate former election rival Pete Buttigieg to be US Transportation Secretary will likely be met with a slightly quizzical “interesting” by those in Washington DC aviation circles.

In November, Lufthansa Group announced that Brussels Airlines CEO Dieter Vranckx would move to Zurich to become CEO of its Swiss International Air Lines subsidiary on Jan. 1, 2021.

ATW's Editor-in-Chief writes about flying in a MAX on American Airlines' media demonstration flight.

American Airlines flew a Boeing 737 MAX 8, registration N308RD, on Dec. 2, 2020, from its charter pad at Dallas-Fort Worth to its maintenance…