COVID-19 News Roundup

Tracking the impact of the pandemic on travel

COVID-19 News Roundup

When the pandemic was first declared in March 2020, ATPCO understood the value of keeping track of industry-related news in the quickly changing environment. We tracked aviation news and developments from the start of the pandemic through December 2020. This page is no longer updated but remains a source for looking back on the events our industry weathered during our toughest times. We are now looking forward to recovery and a post-recovery world.

   
Region Date Organization Summary
EMEA 17 Jun 2020 British Airways British Airways will be hit by strikes when airline returns to the skies, passengers fear
EMEA 13 Jul 2020 British Airways British Airways’ Creative Deal With Pilots
EMEA 28 Sep 2020 British Airways Half Of British Airways’ Boeing 747s Have Now Been Retired
EMEA 13 Oct 2020 British Airways Who Is Sean Doyle – British Airways’ New CEO
EMEA 28 Apr 2020 British Airways British Airways owner IAG says it will make 12,000 redundancies
EMEA 18 May 2020 British Airways British Airways’ First Boeing 787-10 – Ready For Delivery
EMEA 07 Jun 2020 British Airways British Airways Threatens To Dismiss All Pilots And Rehire On Individual Contracts
EMEA 11 Jun 2020 British Airways British Airways to sell art collection to raise cash
EMEA 14 Jul 2020 British Airways British Airways Reveals Art To Be Sold To Raise Funds
Europe 23 Nov 2020 British Airways BA & AA launch COVID-19 trials on TransAtlantic routes
Europe 07 Dec 2020 British Airways British Airways Partners With GOL – Rumours Of A Codeshare
EMEA 16 May 2020 British Airways Senior British Airways cabin crew face 55% pay cut with salaries slashed to £24,000
EMEA 12 Jun 2020 British Airways British Airways changes food on board
EMEA 04 Sep 2020 British Airways Tough start for new boss of BA-owner as Walsh bows out
EMEA 17 Sep 2020 British Airways British Airways arrivals testing geofencing tech
EMEA 12 Oct 2020 British Airways British Airways CEO Departs as Parent IAG Seeks Revamp
EMEA 22 Oct 2020 British Airways British Airways owner IAG slashes flight schedules as losses hit €1.3bn
Europe 07 Dec 2020 British Airways British Airways Says Pandemic Isn’t Deterring Agency Support for Booking Tickets With New Tech Method
Europe 14 Dec 2020 British Airways British Airways banned from Hong Kong
EMEA 16 Mar 2020 British Airways Cutting 75% of flights in April, May
EMEA 16 Jun 2020 British Airways Willie Walsh defends British Airways over job cut plans
EMEA 10 Jul 2020 British Airways British Airways Announces Return To London Gatwick Next Weekend
EMEA 18 Sep 2020 British Airways British Airways Launches New First Class Suite With Door
EMEA 21 Oct 2020 British Airways British Airways CEO: Airline Industry May Never Recover From COVID-19
Europe 07 Dec 2020 British Airways British Airways' souvenir sale hits snag as demand soars
Europe 14 Dec 2020 British Airways British Airways to expand transatlantic Covid-19 testing trial to more routes
EMEA 16 Mar 2020 British Airways Willie Walsh postpones retirement
EMEA 03 May 2020 British Airways British Airways At The Forefront Of Change For A Post-COVID-19 Airline World
EMEA 14 May 2020 British Airways British Airways owner confirms 12,000 job cuts will still be axed even after Chancellor Rishi Sunak extended furlough scheme to end of October
EMEA 16 Jun 2020 British Airways British Airways Owner IAG Said to Prepare Review of Strategy
EMEA 28 Jul 2020 British Airways British Airways faces strike threat over job cut plan
EMEA 03 Aug 2020 British Airways IAG’s Walsh warns against obtaining liquidity without structural reform
EMEA 10 Sep 2020 British Airways British Airways owner IAG to cut more flights
EMEA 11 Sep 2020 British Airways BA Pay Deal: Cabin Crew divide shows
EMEA 16 Oct 2020 British Airways British Airways fined £20m over data breach
EMEA 19 Oct 2020 British Airways New BA boss Doyle criticises government inaction on UK-US routes
Europe 14 Dec 2020 British Airways British Airways’ Last Airbus A380 Leaves Chateauroux
EMEA 16 Mar 2020 British Airways Jobs will be lost
EMEA 20 Mar 2020 British Airways BA Suspends Flights At London City Airport
EMEA 23 Jul 2020 British Airways British Airways pilots to vote on deal to cut jobs and pay
EMEA 01 Aug 2020 British Airways British Airways pilots vote to accept jobs deal
EMEA 19 Oct 2020 British Airways BRITISH AIRWAYS: NEW BOSS DEMANDS PRE-FLIGHT TESTING
EMEA 17 Mar 2020 British Airways British Airways due to make pilot redundancies
EMEA 30 Apr 2020 British Airways BA may not reopen at Gatwick once pandemic passes
EMEA 06 Jul 2020 British Airways Pilots' union has reached outline deal with British Airways in fight to save jobs
EMEA 25 Jul 2020 British Airways EasyJet and British Airways plan to continue UK-Spain flights
EMEA 16 Mar 2020 Lufthansa Cuts long haul capacity by 90%
EMEA 30 Apr 2020 Lufthansa Lufthansa Plans To Reduce Fleet Size By 100 Aircraft
EMEA 07 Jul 2020 Lufthansa Lufthansa to cut a fifth of leadership jobs in restructuring
EMEA 24 Jul 2020 Lufthansa Lufthansa, Belgium agree on Brussels Airlines recovery plan