Alaska Airlines announced seven new routes from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), part of a 12-city expansion planned in fall 2020 from the crowded Southern California hub.
American Airlines and JetBlue Airways announced a Northeast U.S.-focused codeshare alliance, challenging Delta Air Lines in the highly competitive Boston and New York markets.
As capacity steadily returns to Canada’s market, the country’s flag carrier has reiterated calls for the government to help quicken the pace of recovery by easing COVID-19 travel measures.
Emirates Airline returned the Airbus A380 to its active fleet on July 15, operating the aircraft for the first time since March on routes from Dubai (DXB) to London Heathrow (LHR) and Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG).
To help the aviation industry weather the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has announced there will be no service fee hikes for its fiscal year ending March 31, 2021.
Ethiopian Airlines plans to grow its cargo fleet with additional freighters after shifting its focus to cargo revenues during the height of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
American Airlines executives announced in a July 15 staff memo they expect to have 20,000 more employees on payroll than needed in the 2020 fourth quarter and notified 25,000 employees of possible furloughs coming in the fall.
The board of Russia’s Aeroflot Group is expected to adopt a new strategy on July 16 calling for the parent airline to focus on long-haul operations while the domestic network will be left for the two subsidiaries Pobeda and Rossiya.
Hydrogen propulsion holds significant potential to reduce climate impact in flight by as much as 75% when used in engines for direct combustion and as much as 90% when used in fuel cells to power electrically driven hybrid engines or distributed propulsion systems.
Delta Air Lines predicted a charge of up to $3.3 billion from voluntary employee exit deals, offering an early indication of the high costs associated with downsizing at the biggest U.S. airlines.
The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) is eliminating 500 positions, or 27% of its potential workforce, to cope with reduced traffic caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has canceled a planned meeting with its bond- and note-holders, after they indicated they would not grant an approval needed for the airline’s turnaround plan.
Regulators have banned the use of Dupont’s Kathon FP 1.5 biocide in Boeing 737 MAXs, the first of what is likely to be a series of mandates to protect fuel systems from in-service incidents linked to the anti-microbial fuel system additive.
Business-rescue practitioners overseeing South African Airways (SAA) have secured creditor backing for their much-delayed business-rescue plan, with SAA chief commercial officer Phillip Saunders named as interim CEO.
Calgary-based WestJet will grow capacity by 10% in August from July, although its overall schedule will be just a quarter of 2019’s level, illustrating the magnitude of cuts made across its network during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Passur Aerospace will integrate satellite-based aircraft tracking data from Aireon into its airline and airport operations management platform, the companies announced on July 14.
