The Mexican low-cost carrier Volaris is seeing a decline in demand for its first quarter of 2021 due to a combination of low seasonality and the US travel restrictions imposed on January 26. Let’s look at the figures In January,…
Russia’s Aeroflot Group recorded a RUB-95.527 billion net loss for the fiscal year 2020, down from a RUB 5.287 billion profit in 2019. This includes the effect of large-scale (fixed) cost reductions, optimization measures, and capacity cuts. Cargo operations partly…
Qantas could introduce ultra-long-haul flights under its delayed Project Sunrise program as soon as 2024, according to Alan Joyce, chief executive at Qantas. “We still want to revisit it at the end of 2021, with the potential of doing it…
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing that demand for air cargo decreased by 10.6% in 2020, compared to 2019. This was the largest drop in year-on-year demand since IATA started to monitor…
Elmar Conradie is CEO at FlySafair, based in South Africa. We discussed the challenges of doing business there, with pandemic and the collapse of the national carrier and growing competition from other private airlines. It’s not an easy business and…
Aeromexico has been steadily reducing the size of its fleet in the last few months. It has already reduced from six aircraft types to five, following the exit of the Embraer E170 that operated with Aeromexico Connect. Aeromexico moved forward…