Friday, May 15. In recent days, airlines have been announcing a gradual return to flying again. The picture is diffuse, with some offering limited services from the second half of May and others extending their suspensions. So we update our…
How will we fly on an airplane when the worst of Covid-19 is over? Will we fly and under what conditions? Which load factors make sense if social distancing needs to be applied? These are some of the questions the…
Typically the airlines don’t pay much for their engines using “Power-By-Hour” contracts instead. From industry sources, we understand more than half the airlines utilize these contracts. On the lower side, we might see GE and CFM in high-sixties percent and…
If bookings continue to drop in the coming weeks, Lufthansa Group will reduce capacity by 50 percent, the airline said on March 6. Following the outbreak of Covid-19, the German giant has seen a massive drop in traffic in all…
UK-regional airline Flybe has ceased all operations and filed for administration on March 5. It is the first airline to fail since the outbreak of Covid-19, with a drastic drop in traffic resulting in a cash shortage the airline was…
Captains of Europe’s Big Five airlines are worried but not in a panic about how Covid-19 will impact the air travel industry this year. At least, that has been their message at the Airline 4 Europe (A4E) Aviation Summit in…