Between March 28 and October 30, the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) summer season, there are over 151,000 commercial flights scheduled between Mexico and the United States. Compared to the IATA’s 2019 summer season, that’s a 6% increase in the number of flights, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. It sounds like great news, doesn’t it? A …
Just days after an Australian Government payroll assistance scheme ended, Virgin Australia denying claims it has stood down the ground crew. Reports are circulating that 170 ground crew have been stood down for three weeks without pay. Virgin Australia calls this “categorically false.” Virgin Australia ground crew warned of potential stand-down Accor …
Just as Australia’s domestic airlines were gearing up for a blockbuster Easter weekend, a COVID-19 outbreak in Brisbane threatens to put the brakes on the domestic airline industry’s rebound. Ten new COVID cases were recorded in Brisbane in the last 24 hours, with eight of them locally acquired. Brisbane has gone into a three-day lockdown. With the …
Low-cost carrier AirAsia Group said Monday (29 March) that it posted its worst-ever loss in 2020 as border restrictions and quarantines kept international flying to a minimum. The Malaysian airline’s net loss widened to 2.44 billion ringgit (US$589.1 million) for the quarter ended 31 December from 384.4 million ringgit in the corresponding quarter …
The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has given LATAM the green light to operate three humanitarian flights to Lisbon, Portugal. The decision comes one month and a half after Portugal closed its airspace to flights arriving from Brazil due to the new COVID-19 variants. When will these flights happen? So far, there have been three humanitarian fli …
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