Turkish Airlines and the Turkish civil aviation union Hava-İş agreed to adapt the staff’s collective labor agreement resulting in temporary pay cuts between 30 to 50% for its employees, but will avoid layoffs.

Optimistic of a speedy recovery in the Chinese domestic market, Spring Airlines will continue to take delivery of new aircraft to bolster its marketshare in China’s tier 2 and tier 3 cities whilst maintaining a foothold in major trunk routes.

Hawaiian Airlines notified hundreds of employees of involuntary furloughs planned for Oct. 1, while previewing more than 1,000 additional job losses in coming weeks. 

Low-cost long-haul operator Level plans to resume services Sept. 11, with the start of a weekly rotation between its home hub of Barcelona and New York JFK.

Airline fleet-planning is taking a back seat to planning for survival amid the largest demand downturn in commercial aviation history.

The COVID-19 crisis has heightened the need for more environmentally sustainable practices and the industry needs to “reinvent itself,” a senior easyJet figure has said.

United Airlines will furlough more than 16,000 workers on Oct. 1, less than half its previous estimate of 36,000, as the carrier has seen a greater-than-expected participation in voluntary separation and time-off programs.

Passenger numbers at Middle Eastern and North African airlines may not return to pre-COVID-19 levels before 2027 if worst-case scenarios come to pass, the body representing Arab airlines said Sept. 1.