May 18, 2020 | Americas Flying, Atlantic Flying, Delta Air Lines, Pacific Flying
OAG Blog recently covered the record breaking positive week for weekly capacity growth; with weekly capacity above the 30 million weekly seat mark marking two weeks of consistent growth. Meanwhile, USA TSA Checkpoint data reflects a 46% increase in activity in the...
May 5, 2020 | Atlantic Flying, Code Shares, Delta Air Lines, Joint Ventures, Ownership Stakes, Virgin Atlantic
Virgin Atlantic announced reductions in jobs, aircraft and its network Virgin Atlantic will fly only wide-body, twin-engine aircraft from two points in the UK, London Heathrow and Manchester. Virgin Atlantic will park seven 747-400s, with four A330-200 aircraft...
Mar 13, 2020 | Americas Flying, Atlantic Flying, Code Shares, Joint Ventures, Ownership Stakes, Pacific Flying
Skift recently covered how the Coronavirus Is Pushing Some Airlines to the Precipice. Airlines are facing their biggest challenge since the post-9/11 period. While many carriers should have strong enough balance sheets, or enough government support to get through it,...
Mar 13, 2020 | Air France / KLM, Atlantic Flying, Delta Air Lines, Joint Ventures, Ownership Stakes
Aeronews covers KLM plans for 747 early retirement Sources in the Netherlands say that KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is speeding up the retirement of its remaining Boeing 747, originally scheduled for 2021, to save costs. KLM now has 7 passenger Boeing 747-400s and three...
Mar 12, 2020 | Air France / KLM, Alitalia, Atlantic Flying, Code Shares, Delta Air Lines, Joint Ventures, Ownership Stakes, Virgin Atlantic
OAG Blog recently covered the US 30-day ban on travellers arriving from the European “Schengen” countries. The most affected airlines will be Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, which, together are scheduled to fly 31% of all flights between the United...
Mar 9, 2020 | Alitalia, Atlantic Flying, China Eastern, Code Shares, Delta Air Lines, Joint Ventures, Korean Air, MEC Publications, Ownership Stakes, Pacific Flying
OAG Blog recently covered an increase in scheduled airline capacity as China added back some three million seats to their domestic network offering some early signs of recovery in the first market affected. Last Monday also saw a number of airlines in Europe and North...