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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 This page is no longer updated but remains a source for looking back on the events our industry weathered during our toughest times.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
APAC 11 Sep 2020 Tigerair Australia’s Tigerair Closes Down After 13 Years Of Operation
APAC 11 Sep 2020 Qantas Qantas to boost regional flights when state borders reopen
North America 11 Sep 2020 Southwest Southwest CEO Believes No Change Fees Won’t Help Other Carriers
North America 11 Sep 2020 American Airlines Struggling American Airlines prepares to furlough 19,000 workers
EMEA 11 Sep 2020 British Airways BA Pay Deal: Cabin Crew divide shows
APAC 10 Sep 2020 Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines Announces Thousands Of Job Cuts
North America 10 Sep 2020 JetBlue JetBlue Eyes Expansion Announcing 24 New Routes
North America 10 Sep 2020 JetBlue JetBlue says it's not getting rid of change fees for good
North America 10 Sep 2020 Delta Delta sees hope for pent-up travel demand in SkyMiles credit card spending
EMEA 10 Sep 2020 Lufthansa Lufthansa to Shed Biggest Planes in Deepening Fleet Shakeup
Latin America 10 Sep 2020 Gol Linhas Aereas Brazil’s GOL Looks To Slash Expected Cash Burn
EMEA 10 Sep 2020 Finnair Finnair Cuts October Flight Schedule By More Than Half
EMEA 10 Sep 2020 Government European airline bailouts hit €26.6 billion: HSBC
North America 10 Sep 2020 Government US Airports To Stop Screening International Passengers For COVID-19
Latin America 10 Sep 2020 LATAM Latam Airlines Judge Denies $2.45 Billion Bankruptcy Loan
North America 10 Sep 2020 United United Airlines Reaches Deal To Avoid Pilot Furloughs
EMEA 10 Sep 2020 Air France Amadeus Inks Air France-KLM To NDC Deal, Eyes Seamlessness, Scale And Surcharges
EMEA 10 Sep 2020 Government UK Bumps Hungary And Portugal From Quarantine Free List
Global 10 Sep 2020 Industry How Spray Sanitization Could Give Confidence Back To Passengers
North America 10 Sep 2020 Air Transat Transat’s fiscal Q3 yields 99% decline in revenue
Latin America 10 Sep 2020 LATAM LATAM names former JetBlue executive as new commercial chief
EMEA 10 Sep 2020 British Airways British Airways owner IAG to cut more flights
EMEA 09 Sep 2020 Finnair ​Finnair slashes planned October capacity
Multiple 09 Sep 2020 Gol Linhas Aereas GOL Signs A New Codeshare Agreement With Ethiopian Airlines
Global 09 Sep 2020 Industry Which Airlines Are Best Positioned To Survive COVID-19?
North America 09 Sep 2020 Government ASTA: Senate's Covid relief bill wouldn't do enough
EMEA 09 Sep 2020 Ethiopian Airlines COVID Hasn’t Stopped Ethiopian’s $5 Billion Mega-Hub
EMEA 09 Sep 2020 Industry Winter of disconnect ahead for Europe’s airlines
North America 09 Sep 2020 American Airlines American Airlines Says Could Seek Larger Treasury Loan, Defer 737 MAX Deliveries
EMEA 09 Sep 2020 Oman Air Oman Air to resume scheduled flights from October
Global 09 Sep 2020 IATA IATA Urges Aviation To Prepare For The COVID-19 Vaccine
North America 09 Sep 2020 Hawaiian Airlines Hawaiian Airlines expects Q3 capacity to decline ~87% with cash burn of ~$3M/day
North America 09 Sep 2020 Delta Delta And The TSA Roll Out Antimicrobial Security Lane Trays
North America 09 Sep 2020 United United expands no-change-fee policy just 10 days after introducing it
Global 09 Sep 2020 TripActions TripActions targets large global companies with launch of “Enterprise Edition” services
EMEA 09 Sep 2020 Industry ‘Last chance to save UK airline industry’: EasyJet chief
Global 09 Sep 2020 Industry To ease travel, agency groups offering rapid Covid testing
North America 09 Sep 2020 American Airlines American Airlines sees small silver lining from COVID-19 — aircraft fleet simplification
North America 09 Sep 2020 United United Airlines Cuts Flight Capacity. It’s a Bad Sign for Fall Air Travel.
EMEA 08 Sep 2020 Government UK government to set out aviation recovery strategy ‘this autumn’
North America 08 Sep 2020 Delta Delta and Virgin Australia suspend transpacific partnership as latter restructures
North America 08 Sep 2020 Industry TSA Hits Highest Passenger Numbers Since March
EMEA 08 Sep 2020 Lufthansa Lufthansa Reveals That 1% Of Passengers Tested Had COVID-19
North America 08 Sep 2020 Delta How Delta Set the Standard for the Airline Industry's COVID-19 Response
Latin America 08 Sep 2020 Government Colombia Could Soon Start Opening To International Flights
North America 08 Sep 2020 Industry Traffic rebound on U.S. airlines slows despite Labor Day bump
APAC 08 Sep 2020 ANA All Nippon Airways to suspend 89% of planned intl frequencies in Sep-2020, 87% in Oct-2020
EMEA 08 Sep 2020 Air Europa Air Europa Requests €400 Million In State Aid Ahead Of IAG Deal
Latin America 08 Sep 2020 Government IATA: 'We do not want Argentina to continue losing connectivity'
North America 08 Sep 2020 Government US Senate Not Expected To Provide Aid To Airlines