Daily Airline News

No, We Won’t Lose Airlines

In an Aug. 5 media briefing, President Donald Trump signaled his support for further government aid to the airline industry. "I think it's very important that we keep the airlines…

August 6th, 2020 at 12:42 PM EDT

Virgin Australia Lays Out Plan for Future

Virgin Australia is scaling back its international ambitions and simplifying its fleet, CEO Paul Scurrah said Aug. 5. The carrier will fly to 28 cities in Australia and add destinations…

August 5th, 2020 at 2:46 PM EDT

A Contrarian View on Why Airlines Shouldn’t Take Any Stimulus Money

Airline CEOs and labor groups have called for the U.S. federal government to extend the CARES Act payroll protection program by another six months, till the end of March. By…

August 4th, 2020 at 3:11 PM EDT

A Lot of ‘Ifs’

In this week's feature story, Senior Analyst Jay Shabat takes an in-depth look into the phases of the pandemic for U.S. airlines. We all know the second quarter was awful.…

August 3rd, 2020 at 3:53 PM EDT

A Quarter Everyone Wants to Forget

In the Aug. 3, 2020 issue of Airline Weekly, we'll take an in-depth look at the U.S. airline industry's second-quarter results. It's not pretty. As we all know now, the…

July 31st, 2020 at 12:53 PM EDT

Airbus Orders Plunge

Airbus's first-half 2019 results read almost like fantasy fiction now, after looking at the airframer's first-half 2020 results. Then, Airbus was flying high on the strength of its A320 family,…

July 30th, 2020 at 12:52 PM EDT

The Pain Continues at Boeing

It's been a rough 18 months or so for Boeing. First, regulators grounded the 737 MAX after two fatal accidents. And now Covid has brought its airline customers to the…

July 29th, 2020 at 1:08 PM EDT

IATA’s New Numbers are Grim, Grim, Grim

IATA got significantly more pessimistic about when the airline industry will recover. Now, the group thinks traffic will not return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024, a year later than it…

July 28th, 2020 at 1:01 PM EDT