U.S. airlines stripped their international schedules to skeletal levels over the weekend, parking their widebody fleets and signaling difficult decisions ahead over reining in labor costs.
United Airlines is operating under planning assumptions that president Scott Kirby called “much more severe than anything we’ve seen anyone else publish.”
United Airlines is leaving nothing to chance over the potential impact of COVID-19, operating under planning assumptions that United president Scott Kirby called “much more severe than anything we’ve seen anyone else publish.”
United Airlines became the first U.S. airline to cut domestic capacity as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, signaling that domestic demand in the North American market is showing signs of pressure from the spreading novel coronavirus.
As COVID-19 coronavirus spreads globally, the number of international departure seats from China is set to drop by more than 5.5 million in March 2020 as airlines across the world continue suspending service.
United Airlines became the first North American carrier to reduce service to Japan and Singapore on Feb. 28, reflecting intensified concerns about the spread of COVID-19 beyond China.
Lufthansa and United Airlines are seriously considering a plan to jointly acquire TAP Portugal in an effort to protect their position in the Europe-Latin America market and keep Delta Air Lines from investing in another European carrier.
United Airlines has withdrawn its full-year financial guidance, citing uncertainty over the ramifications from the COVID-19 coronavirus on travel demand, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region where the airline had 15% of its planned full-year capacity.
United Airlines has reached agreements to supply dozens of Embraer regional jets to ExpressJet Airlines and SkyWest Airlines, part of a restructuring of the United Express regional fleet in the aftermath of Trans States Airlines’ decision to cease operations by 2021.
Weekly capacity between New York and Manchester during the summer is set to drop by a third compared with 2019, but United Airlines is awaiting price stabilization before deciding whether to expand.
United Airlines has purchased a Phoenix-area flight training academy to feed into its pilot pipeline, part of the carrier’s efforts to hire more than 10,000 new pilots by 2029.
American Airlines and United Airlines both announced on Feb. 4 plans to suspend their Hong Kong operations through Feb. 20, citing lower travel demand caused by the spread of a novel coronavirus in China.
United Airlines is emphasizing flexibility in its next major narrowbody engine overhaul contract, seeking CFM56 support vendors that can handle both full overhauls and quick turns as well as eyeing more alternative-part usage, two of the airline’s executives told AeroEngines Americas attendees.
