AW Daily

Summer Hiatus

August 21, 2020

Airline Weekly is taking its annual summer break. Our next weekly issue will be published on Sept. 8, and we will resume updating AW Daily with airline industry news and commentary on Aug. 31. In the meantime, stay on top...

Qantas CEO: U.S. Flights Won’t Resume Until 2021 End

August 21, 2020

Yet another sign of how uncontrolled the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. is came from Australian carrier Qantas. CEO Alan Joyce said the company likely won't resume its U.S. routes until the end of 2021, and only if an effective...

American to Drop 15 Cities in October When CARES Expires

August 20, 2020

American Airlines will stop flying to 15 cities in October as it downsizes its network and prepares to furlough or lay off workers and when the CARES Act requirements on air service expire. The CARES Act mandated that airlines taking...

U.S.-China Flights Begin the Slow Climb to Recovery

August 19, 2020

The U.S. and China are stepping back from their sometimes-tense aviation standoff by allowing more flights between the two countries. The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) ruled that Chinese carriers currently serving the U.S. can double their weekly flights from four...

Colombia Expected to Lift Air Restrictions Sept. 1

August 18, 2020

Colombia is expected to allow air travel to resume on Sept. 1, despite murmuring that the date my be pushed back further. But the country won't re-open all at once. Colombia, unlike most other countries in the world, is leaving...

Vegas Airport Traffic Slowly Rebounds But Will It Last?

August 17, 2020

Perhaps no other statistic illustrates the pandemic's effect on U.S. travel than traffic figures from McCarran International Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas. In April, 152,716 passengers traveled through the airport. During 2019, the airport handled nearly that much traffic in...

Cargo Buoys Turkish Airlines

August 14, 2020

Turkish Airlines, like almost every other airline in the world, swung to a loss in the horrendous second quarter, reporting a loss of $327m compared with a $26m profit in 2019. But the carrier did report one very bright spot:...

Jet Fuel Demand Plunges to Lowest Level in Decades

August 13, 2020

In a year of eye-popping aviation statistics, the following may be the most eye-popping yet. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said demand for jet fuel in May was the lowest since 1968. May jet fuel demand fell 67% year-over-year....

S&P: Air Travel Demand Even Worse Than Expected

August 12, 2020

After a flurry of second-quarter results showed that the airline industry is worse off than we thought, out comes a new report that makes the bad news even more grim. S&P Global now expects air travel demand to be down...

Mesa’s Move Into Cargo Provides Pilots a New Career Path

August 11, 2020

Mesa Air Group, which provides regional lift for United and American, is diversifying into cargo, the latest airline to tap into a lucrative revenue stream as the pandemic squelches travel demand. It's not about to get out of of the...

Cargo Fuels Korean, Asiana Profits

August 10, 2020

Believe it or not, while airlines the world over lamented the worst quarter in the air transport industry's century-long history, two airlines actually made money. But not by carrying passengers. Korean Air and Asiana reported profits of $133 million and...

Copa’s Lost Quarter

August 7, 2020

Airline executives call the pandemic the worst crisis in air transport's century of existence. And when you look at Copa Airlines' second-quarter results, it's easy to see why they say that. The Panamanian carrier reported that its second-quarter passenger traffic...