The recovery in the US airline market has been slow, and is still nowhere close to 2019 levels in traffic and activity. The forecasts of a long recovery back to pre-pandemic levels appear to be accurate, despite everyone in the…
Despite an almost full recovery of traffic on domestic routes, Chinese airlines remain cautious or even pessimistic about their financial situation and outlook. The number of flights might have recovered to 2019 levels but load factors and yields remain weak,…
Watching session after session at Thursday’s digital World Aviation Festival, you couldn’t help but think that one airline executive after another top manager was reading from the same piece of paper. Their message: governments must work together on common Covid-measures…
A quick note to subscribers, we are updating our models to add the latest On-Time data for June 2020. This is likely to take up the rest of the day. An initial review shows an amazing change in On-Time performance!…
Lufthansa is to cut more full-time jobs and retire additional aircraft, it announced on September 21 in its third restructuring program. An unspecified number of extra jobs will be lost, on top of the 22.000 full-time equivalents reported in April…
Despite the dire position of many airlines and the world’s economy likely to head into a recession as the recovery of Covid-19 takes longer, there are still signs that the airline industry is seen as a good investment. Take for…