Air Transport World

Avolon head of portfolio management Jim Morrison gives his outlook for 2021, based on the lessor’s newly released "Looking to Recovery" paper

Airbus risk-management subsidiary Skytra has made it possible for airlines to hedge revenue for the first time, by gathering data covering 83% of daily worldwide ticket sales. Skytra co-founders Elise Weber and Matthew Tringham discuss how this came about and what it means for airlines.

Despite months of airline industry campaigning for governments to lift borders, eliminate quarantines and enable international air travel to begin restoring to at least some level of normalcy, the opposite is happening.

A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. Sadly, a picture tweeted Friday from Heathrow Airport could cost the air transport industry far more dearly.

With the spotlight returning to sustainability, airlines and the air transport industry understand that green initiatives need to be incorporated into

Carriers provide a shot in the arm as vaccines are delivered around the world.

Air cargo has rebounded, but also has stress points.

Innovation and customer value will become airline differentiators.

Last year was one of contrasts for El Al. As with all airlines, the Israeli carrier was impacted by a sudden and severe drop in travel demand because

Boeing’s 2021 challenges extend beyond the MAX.

The pandemic fast-tracks digital health travel apps.

A year after the devastating effects of the COVID-19 virus on human life first became apparent, it’s disheartening, to put it mildly, still to be writing an editorial on the imperative of mask wearing during air travel.

As the full extent of the COVID-19 pandemic impact on airlines became apparent in the spring of 2020, many in the US started comparing it to 9/11.

Southwest Airlines marks its 50th anniversary in 2021 and it won’t be the year that the Dallas-based upstart with the stock exchange sticker LUV

Industry players are stepping up commitments, research and programs to meet industry sustainability targets of halving carbon emissions by 2050

Airports must prepare for a different type of passenger in the post-pandemic world.

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

How inflight links with passengers’ devices can boost revenue, confidence.

Airlines look at new ways to safely provide inflight customer care.

No region escaped the devastating effects of the pandemic

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.