Ryanair Group CEO Michael O’Leary believes demand could recover to pre-COVID-19 levels by as early as 2022, if air fares are low enough.

U.S. airline capacity growth will remain muted in January, the latest schedule data shows, as COVID-19 cases and government restrictions mount nationwide.

Singapore Airlines (SIA) and India’s Vistara have signed a commercial cooperation framework agreement which will see coordinated moves in areas of capacity planning, sales, marketing, joint fare products, customer services and operations once flights restart between the two countries.

Emirates Airline has taken delivery of one Airbus A380 from the Airbus facility at Hamburg Finkenwerder and plans to add a further two of the type before the end of the month.

Ryanair is to open a base at Venice Treviso (TSF) ahead of the northern hemisphere summer season as part of the airline’s ongoing expansion in Italy.

Avianca’s decision to exit the domestic market in Peru and cut much of its international flying from Lima’s Jorge Chávez International (LIM) is opening up huge opportunities for LCCs, according to SKY Airline’s executive president Holger Paulmann.

Another start-up airline is set to join Vietnam’s highly lucrative yet competitive air transport sector.

UK long-haul carrier Virgin Atlantic is expecting to perform its final Boeing 747 flight on Dec. 16 and has announced plans to resume operations from Manchester, England, on Dec. 5 after a nine-month break.