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 This page is no longer updated but remains a source for looking back on the events our industry weathered during our toughest times.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
Global 07 Dec 2020 COVID-19 Business Travel by the Numbers
Global 03 Apr 2020 Government Coronavirus: Travel restrictions, border shutdowns by country
Global 20 Mar 2020 COVID-19 Coronavirus: Travel restrictions, border shutdowns by country
Global 24 Mar 2020 IATA IATA Updates COVID-19 Impact Assessment
Global 24 Apr 2020 Industry Over 100 million jobs losses in the Travel & Tourism sector and alerts G20 countries to the scale of the crisis
Global 02 Jun 2020 Industry Can Flight Subscriptions Help Airlines Recover From an Unprecedented Drop in Demand?
Global 16 Jun 2020 IATA IATA: Continued Government Relief Measures Needed to get Airlines through the Winter
Global 22 Jun 2020 Industry OAG: Weekly Air Capacity Grows in North America But Holds Worldwide
Global 26 Jun 2020 Industry Startups, investors see opportunities and challenges as travel industry struggles with COVID, diversity issues
Global 15 Jul 2020 Industry 9 in 10 From Industry Say Aviation Wasn’t Prepared For COVID
Global 10 Aug 2020 Industry OAG: Capacity Dip This Week Could Indicate Capacity Peak Reached
Global 08 Sep 2020 Industry The TSA Begins Testing Biometric Recognition Checkpoints
Global 09 Sep 2020 Industry To ease travel, agency groups offering rapid Covid testing
Global 23 Sep 2020 Industry Airlines are confronting a future of smaller, leaner operations
Global 06 Oct 2020 IATA IATA: Airlines Are Burning Through $300,000 Per Minute
Global 09 Nov 2020 COVID-19 What the Latest U.S. Airport Security Screening Numbers Tell Us
Global 16 Nov 2020 COVID-19 Chile Set To Allow International Travelers From November 23rd
Global 23 Nov 2020 COVID-19 Another Study Finds Covid-19 Can Spread On Long Airline Flights
Global 07 Dec 2020 Sabre Sabre CEO Sean Menke on planning beyond the pandemic
Global 16 Mar 2020 COVID-19 Coronavirus Travel Restrictions, Across the Globe 
Global 18 Mar 2020 Industry Corporate travel on the front line of global incidents
Global 24 Mar 2020 Industry ACTE Suspends Operations Through May
Global 27 Mar 2020 COVID-19 The Airlines Most in Danger of Going Under During the Crisis
Global 13 Apr 2020 Industry What Shape Would the Travel Industry Recovery Look Like? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Global 17 Apr 2020 Industry ARC expands info page for airline refund processing
Global 24 Apr 2020 COVID-19 Coronavirus: Travel restrictions, border shutdowns by country
Global 19 May 2020 Industry Debate Rages Over Empty Middle Seat as Airlines Take to the Skies Again
Global 22 Jun 2020 Government WHO says it will issue guidance on air travel in coming days
Global 10 Aug 2020 Industry What Is the Future for Metasearch in Corporate Travel?
Global 09 Sep 2020 TripActions TripActions targets large global companies with launch of “Enterprise Edition” services
Global 18 Sep 2020 Industry Flying Post Pandemic: Could We See Semi Private Cubicle Seating?
Global 07 Oct 2020 IATA IATA Confident We’ll See A Common Testing Standard Before November
Global 07 Dec 2020 Government IATA: Pandemic undoes more than a decade of gains in air connectivity
Global 15 Apr 2020 Industry Crippled Airline Industry to Get $25 Billion Bailout, Part of It as Loans
Global 27 Mar 2020 COVID-19 Coronavirus: Travel restrictions, border shutdowns by country
Global 03 Apr 2020 COVID-19 Coronavirus: Travel restrictions, border shutdowns by country
Global 07 Apr 2020 IATA IATA: 25 Million Jobs at Risk with Airline Shutdown
Global 13 Apr 2020 COVID-19 COVID-19 exposes opportunities to improve travel products and customer services
Global 17 Apr 2020 IATA IATA deepens projected airline revenue loss to $314 billion
Global 21 Apr 2020 IATA Inflight social distancing will kill short-haul LCC travel: IATA
Global 05 May 2020 IATA IATA Calls for Passenger Face Covering and Crew Masks Opposes Onboard Social Distancing
Global 19 May 2020 IATA IATA Outlines Layered Approach for Industry Re-Start
Global 20 May 2020 Industry Travel’s Reopening: A Global Timeline From the Skift Team
Global 02 Jun 2020 Government Industry Bodies Lobby Congress for Covid-19 Liability Shields
Global 09 Jun 2020 IATA IATA: Industry Losses to Top $84 Billion in 2020
Global 18 Jun 2020 Industry Many frequent flyers won’t be back for a while
Global 13 Jul 2020 Industry OAG: Global Air Capacity Crosses 50M Seat Threshold This Week
Global 19 Sep 2020 Industry How Should The Airline Refund System Change?
Global 16 Nov 2020 COVID-19 What travel companies can do now to prepare for recovery
Global 07 Dec 2020 Alitalia Alitalia To Start Quarantine-Free New York To Rome Flights