Airlines for America president and CEO Nicholas Calio has encouraged Americans to fly for the Thanksgiving holiday, despite the US reporting over 100,000 daily cases each day for the past week. “I hope you’re flying somewhere” for the holiday season, the A4A president said on Thursday during a media briefing. “I am,” he added. At
Abu Dhabi-based carrier Etihad has announced it will continue to scale down its operations and focus on becoming a mid-sized, full service carrier. With the announcement, Etihad has streamlined its organisational structure and removed a number of senior executive roles, announced employee layoffs, and said it will concentrate future operations on its wide-body fleet. It
Dubai-based airline Emirates posted its first loss in more than three decades on Thursday, saying it had been badly hit by the coronavirus lockdown that brought air transport to “a literal standstill”. The Middle East’s largest carrier said it suffered a $3.4 billion loss in the six months to September, prompting its parent group to
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has scoffed at current industry predictions that it will take three or more years to see a post-COVID recovery in demand for air travel. Speaking at the World Travel Market Conference, the Irish billionaire and budget airline chief executive instead said he predicted an “enormous” bounce-back in demand and called more
Finland’s flagship airline Finnair, has become the latest E-Jet operator to select AerFin’s BeyondPool component Flight-Hour Agreement (FHA), signing a long-term contract to support its fleet of 12 E190 E-Jet aircraft. BeyondPool is a fully bespoke, comprehensive E-Jet component FHA solution, covering repair, overhaul, pooling and on-site provisioning of E-Jet rotable component inventory and is
British Airways is sending a number of its A380s to Madrid to be stored, as the UK entered its second total lockdown and placed a ban on all non-essential overseas travel. The first to be transferred to Madrid was six-year-old G-XLEF, msn 151, which departed from London as BA9175 at 10:24am local time on Wednesday.
