The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated global aviation. The fallout is being severely felt across the African continent. Even before the pandemic, only 9% of the continent’s air traffic was intra-African. It’s common to hear stories that the fastest, easiest, and…
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is forced to reduce its workforce by another 1.000 with almost immediate effect. Slower than expected recovery from the Covid-crisis until deeper into 2021 means that the carrier has to refer to another scenario and cut…
The Mexican low-cost carrier Interjet is suspending all its flights until New Year’s, leaving everyone wondering if it will ever fly again. It hasn’t flown since December 11. Sources inside the airline confirmed that the airline would not operate any…
Over the last week, the AirInsight US Airline Performance Index has taken a downturn, with each of the seven days lower than the prior week. This has broken a trend of slow upward growth in the index over the last…
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…
The AirInsight Airline Performance Index continues to show weakness, with no significant recovery in sight. While the index has moved up slightly with the increase in flight activity in August, there has been no corresponding increase in passenger traffic or…