Coronavirus

The US is likely headed for at least two years of divided government, which has good and bad consequences for the commercial airline industry.

The U.S. Transportation Command wanted scientific answers regarding the infection risk posed by aircraft cabins.

The 2021 outlook for airlines in Latin America depends on where you’re looking.

Airport chief discusses how the facility in Ecuador's capital is meeting its financial obligations to bond holders after shutting down for more than two months and seeing traffic drop by 87%.

Ask the Editors: Widebody fleets are under pressure and smaller single-aisles are expected to remain popular.

GE Aviation and New York’s Albany International Airport have announced a digital-focused partnership involving a new app to help airport staff and customers track COVID-19 cleaning protocols.

Eight months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian ANSP faces what its president and CEO Neil Wilson has called “the toughest moment” in the company’s history.

At the moment, few airlines can look beyond a two-month planning window as COVID-19 has rendered traditional forecasting tools useless.

A focus on providing same-day return flights on European business routes will form a key part of Spanish flag-carrier Iberia’s winter schedule.

Rolls-Royce has successfully placed a new rights issue that will yield the manufacturer a much-needed £2 billion ($2.6 billion) in funding.

SpaceX Founder, CEO and Chief Engineer Elon Musk has received two positive and two negative test results for COVID-19, he said on Twitter Nov. 13.

Southwest Airlines reported softening bookings trends for November and December, reflecting a surge in COVID-19 cases across the U.S.

The brand of Ryanair’s Austrian carrier Laudamotion will finally disappear from the market once and for all in the coming weeks, Laudamotion CEO Andreas Gruber said.

Business aviation traffic worldwide is declining in November as travel restrictions tighten with the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to WingX Advance data.

Singapore Airlines has raised S$850 million ($630 million) in a convertible bond issue exercise reserved for a “variety of institutional investors.”

Vietjet Air has announced a partnership with freight carrier UPS, allowing both airlines to leverage air cargo capacity on each others’ aircraft between the U.S. and Asia, and especially within Vietnam and Thailand.

Avianca CEO Anko van der Werff tells ATW correspondent Kurt Hofmann about a year like no other and explains the airline’s future plans as it looks to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

North American passenger carriers were able to avoid the high-profile airline failures seen in other regions, but there is no clear indication when daily losses will cease.

In 2015, Robert DeLaurentis set out to circumnavigate the world in a Piper Malibu Mirage. He made it, but things did not go as planned.

Washington could take a tougher line on NATO members seen as undermining the alliance’s cohesion, including Turkey and Poland.

Airlines for America (A4A) forecast a modest pick-up in air travel demand over the Thanksgiving holiday, but warned that the outlook for carriers remains “dire” amid a third wave of COVID-19 in the U.S.

In the roller coaster that is the COVID-19 pandemic, bigger is not always better.

Tougher travel restrictions imposed across parts of Europe to help curb a second wave of COVID-19 cases have forced KLM to cut its planned seat capacity and flight frequencies.

Eurowings expects that demand from leisure and visiting-friends-and-relatives (VFR) travelers will drive the recovery and so plans to expand its offering to these customers.

Virgin Atlantic would be willing to partner with Flybe should the UK regional airline’s planned resurrection come to fruition.