Europe’s airline industry is in for a grim winter season.

An airline price war, with a difference, erupted in China in the middle of 2020.

Airlines cannot afford for governments to wait for a COVID-19 vaccine to be widely available before opening up borders, IATA said Nov. 23. 

JetBlue Airways flight attendants voted to reject their first ever contract with the airline, setting the stage for another round of negotiations expected sometime next year.

The promise the French industry made this past June to make its supply chain stronger is beginning to materialize.

Chinese airlines generally expect the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to withdraw its grounding order on the Boeing 737 MAX no later than March 2021, industry sources said. 

Scoot CEO Campbell Wilson tells ATW correspondent Chen Chuanren about his return to the LCC and how the Singapore-based airline can see the light at the end of the tunnel after a tough year.

The opening of a highly anticipated air travel bubble between Singapore (SIN) and Hong Kong (HKG) was deferred by two weeks, a day before the first ATB flight was set to depart on Nov. 22.