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Mexican Low-Cost Carrier Interjet Can’t Pay for Fuel, Cancels Flights

November 2, 2020

Beleaguered Mexican low-cost carrier Interjet abruptly canceled flights over the weekend through Tuesday, reportedly because it lacked cash to pay its fuel bills. Cash flow has been disrupted by the pandemic, Interjet admitted on its website to explain the cancellations....

How Delta Managed to Avoid Pilot Furloughs

October 30, 2020

Delta Air Lines and the leadership of its pilots union reached a tentative deal that would prevent furloughs until Jan. 1, 2022. The carrier previously had said as many as 1,900 pilots could lose their jobs on Nov. 1. The...

Boeing to Slash 7,000 Jobs in Another Round of Reductions, Pegging Airline Recovery at 3 Years

October 28, 2020

Boeing, after grappling with the grounding of its best-selling aircraft, now faces a commercial aviation market that won't recover for at least three years, CEO David Calhoun said Wednesday on the company's third-quarter earnings call. This is slightly more optimistic...

U.S. Tentatively Approves Delta-WestJet Joint Venture

October 26, 2020

The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) has tentatively approved a proposed transborder joint venture between Delta Air Lines and Canada's WestJet, but is requiring the two airlines to divest coveted takeoff and landing slots at New York LaGuardia Airport. The DOT's...

Alaska Eyeing Replacements for Legacy Virgin America Fleet

October 23, 2020

Alaska Airlines said it is shopping around to replace the Airbus A320-family jets it inherited from Virgin America. The historically all-Boeing carrier said it is in talks with both airframers for a possible replacement. Alaska assumed the mainly leased Virgin...

Why the Recovery Will Take Longer for Middle East Airlines

October 21, 2020

In a word, quarantines. International travel, after a brief period of optimism over the summer, appears to be shutting down again as countries around the world restrict travel to contain second- and third-wave outbreaks of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is...

U.S. Airport Screenings Top 1 Million: Hiccup or Signs of a Recovery?

October 19, 2020

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reported a milestone on October 18: It screened more than 1 million people at the nation's airports, the first time the number of screenings topped that number since March. But is this a sign that...

Boeing’s Third-Quarter Deliveries Fall as Airlines Trim Fleets

October 14, 2020

What a difference a year makes. Boeing's third-quarter commercial aircraft deliveries plummeted by more than half and by two-thirds for the year to date, as airlines defer aircraft and rework their order books to reflect a collapse in air travel...

Delta to Avoid Most Furloughs Even as It Reports Staggering $2.6 Billion Quarterly Loss

October 13, 2020

Delta Air Lines expects to be a much smaller carrier, at least for the next couple of years when it expects demand to start to return to pre-pandemic levels. The airline has avoided the furloughs that its competitors have endured...

What the Ouster of the British Airways CEO Tells Us About the State of European Airlines

October 12, 2020

European airlines' dark autumn cost another executive his job. British Airways CEO Alex Cruz will step down immediately, to be replaced by Aer Lingus CEO Sean Doyle, International Airlines Group (IAG), parent company to both airlines, said in a statement...

Wild Week in Washington Ends With No Relief for Airline Workers

October 9, 2020

Even by the standards of this administration and the 116th Congress, it has been a wild week, one that whipsawed the airline industry and its workers between hope and despair. And the week ends with no further clarity on whether...

EasyJet Warns of First-Ever Annual Loss — $1 Billion

October 8, 2020

U.K.-based low-cost carrier easyJet warned it's on track to report a loss of more than $1 billion for the year, its first-ever full-year loss. In an update to investors, CEO Johan Lundgren said passenger demand for the full year will...