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The COVID-19 crisis has heightened the need for more environmentally sustainable practices and the industry needs to “reinvent itself,” a senior easyJet figure has said.

EasyJet director calls on industry to ensure governments have right policies in place.

A weekly round-up of the latest news from the aviation industry as airlines and airports seek to recover from the COVID-19 crisis.

UK LCC easyJet is to close three UK bases at London Southend, London Stansted and Newcastle after ending redundancy consultations with pilots’ union BALPA, triggering further potential redundancies at airports operator and ground handling provider Stobart Group.

The airline is trying to avoid involuntary layoffs.

UK LCC easyJet has raised £608 million ($796 million) from the sale and leaseback of 23 Airbus A320 family aircraft, increasing its fundraising total to over £2.4 billion since the COVID-19 crisis took hold.

EasyJet, Ryanair and Southwest are the only three airlines that retain investment-grade ratings from S&P Global Ratings, after the credit rating

A new event is being launched by Routes which will provide an innovative platform for the aviation industry to rebuild air services in the post-pandemic era.

EasyJet expects to fly around 40% of planned capacity in its fiscal fourth quarter (Q4), based on current travel restrictions—up from the 30% previously announced after better-than-expected summer bookings.

Pilots at easyJet have voted to express no confidence in the LCC’s chief operations officer Peter Bellew amid proposed pilot job losses, in a development that the pilots’ union said shows a “serious and widening rift” with the UK airline’s senior management.

LONDON—UK ULCC easyJet plans to make more than 700 pilots redundant and close three of its British bases as it downsizes in the face of the novel coronavirus crisis.

UK-based easyJet is launching a share placement worth up to £450 million ($558 million), in the budget carrier’s latest move to shore up its finances since the COVID-19 crisis took hold.

EasyJet is this week operating about 33 routes to destinations in Europe, but a sharp network expansion is planned next month.

A weekly round-up of the latest news from the aviation industry as airlines and airports begin to recover from the COVID-19 crisis.

ASL Airlines France, which specialises in flights between France and North Africa, will tomorrow open a new domestic scheduled passenger route.

Ryanair, British Airways and easyJet have written to the UK government to condemn its decision to introduce a 14-day quarantine period for arrivals to the UK as part of its response to the COVID-19 crisis.

Routes’ latest Europe market round-up, featuring new route launches, capacity changes and news.

EasyJet has said it will have resumed flights to almost three-quarters of its route network by the end of August as London City Airport (LCY) said separately that it would reopen at the end of June as COVID-19 lockdowns are lifted.

EasyJet has said it will reduce staff numbers by 30% and by the end of 2021 have a fleet of around 302 aircraft, 51 fewer than planned before the COVID-19 crisis.

As the LCC returns to the skies on June 15 the focus is “profitable flying” on British and French domestic routes.

EasyJet has said its finance director Andrew Findlay will step down in a year’s time in the latest twist in an ongoing dispute between management and the LCC’s founder and biggest shareholder, Stelios Haji-Ioannou.

EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou has failed in his bid to oust four senior directors in protest against the LCC’s Airbus order, meaning the board can focus fully on easyJet’s gradual flight relaunch from June 15.

The UK LCC's founder had sought to retake control of the carrier.

Tom Screen, aviation director at Birmingham Airport (BHX), explains how the UK airport reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic and outlines his hopes for the future.

Through the conditions of their support packages to airlines, governments around the world are deciding the industry's fate.