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 This page is no longer updated but remains a source for looking back on the events our industry weathered during our toughest times.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 06 Sep 2020 Emirates Emirates To Restore Employee Salaries To 100% By October
Asia Pacific 16 Nov 2020 Emirates Emirates airline posts first loss in more than 30 years
EMEA 17 Apr 2020 Emirates Emirates becomes first airline to conduct on-site rapid COVID-19 tests for passengers
EMEA 09 Jun 2020 Emirates Emirates Implementing Mass Job Cuts
EMEA 19 Jun 2020 Emirates Emirates To Resume Flights To 10 More Cities Including Washington
EMEA 15 Sep 2020 Emirates Emirates Warns Of UK Workforce Reduction
EMEA 21 Sep 2020 Emirates Emirates Will Launch The World’s Longest Flight Since Lockdown
Middle East 14 Dec 2020 Emirates Emirates Takes Its 117th Airbus A380 As It Awaits First With Premium Economy
EMEA 17 May 2020 Emirates Emirates Considers Cutting 30,000 Jobs, Retire A380s Faster
EMEA 24 Jul 2020 Emirates Emirates offers to pay passengers’ Covid-19 medical and quarantine expenses
EMEA 21 Oct 2020 Emirates Emirates looking to restore U.S. network as soon as possible
EMEA 09 Jun 2020 Emirates Emirates Lays Off More Pilots, Cabin Crew as Part of Thousands of Job Cuts
EMEA 09 Jul 2020 Emirates Emirates and flydubai move close to merger, Emirates CCO says
APAC 23 Nov 2020 Etihad Etihad Airways and EL AL Israel Airlines sign MoU
EMEA 06 Oct 2020 Etihad Etihad Sees Widespread Collaboration During Travel’s COVID Recovery
EMEA 22 Jun 2020 Etihad Etihad Develops Covid-19 Risk-Assessment Tool
Asia Pacific 16 Nov 2020 Etihad Etihad Airways To Ground Its A380 Fleet Indefinitely
EMEA 23 Mar 2020 Etihad Emirates, Etihad to stop flying entirely following UAE ban
EMEA 07 Sep 2020 Etihad Etihad Airways Begins Offering Complimentary COVID-19 Insurance
EMEA 19 May 2020 Etihad Abu Dhabi's Etihad cuts hundreds of jobs: sources
EMEA 13 Jul 2020 Etihad Etihad To Offer At Home COVID-19 Tests Before Flights
EMEA 27 Jul 2020 Etihad Etihad And Emirates Passengers Will Need COVID-19 Tests Before They Fly
North America 23 Mar 2020 Compass Covid-19 crisis forces shutdown of regional airlines Compass and Trans States
North America 23 Mar 2020 Trans States Covid-19 crisis forces shutdown of regional airlines Compass and Trans States
APAC 24 Mar 2020 Thai Airways Thai Airways Grounds All Flights
APAC 31 Mar 2020 Thai Airways Thai Airways to ground most of its fleet, seeks liquidity boost
APAC 30 Apr 2020 Thai Airways Thai Airways Gets $1.8 Billion Government Bailout
APAC 26 Jul 2020 Thai Airways Thai Airways Has Defaulted On Nearly $3 Billion Worth Of Debt
APAC 15 Sep 2020 Thai Airways Thai Airways Restructuring Approved By Court
APAC 17 Aug 2020 Thai Airways Thai Airways Lost $900m In The First Half Of 2020
APAC 16 Nov 2020 Thai Airways Thai Airways Selling Everything From Cutlery To Boeing 747s In Bid To Raise Funds
APAC 28 May 2020 Thai Airways Challenges ahead in Thai Airways business rehabilitation
APAC 16 May 2020 Thai Airways Thai Government Open To Bankruptcy For Thai Airways
APAC 14 Jul 2020 Thai Airways Thai Airways Suspends Normal Operations Until September
APAC 07 Oct 2020 Thai Airways Thai Airways Continues Offering Flights Despite Schedule Suspension
APAC 15 Jun 2020 Thai Airways Thai Airways Insists Jobs Wont Be Lost In The Short Term
APAC 14 Sep 2020 Thai Airways Thai Airways aims to hold creditors’ meeting in early 2021
Latin America 10 May 2020 Avianca Avianca Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy In The US
Latin America 25 Sep 2020 Avianca Avianca To Restart International Flights From Colombia On Monday
EMEA 24 Mar 2020 Avianca Avianca will suspend all operations from 25 March through at least 12 April
Latin America 06 Oct 2020 Avianca Avianca’s $2 Billion Financing Approved In New York
Latin America 13 May 2020 Avianca Latin America's airlines pray for bailouts to avoid Avianca's fate
Latin America 22 Sep 2020 Avianca Colombia's Avianca files bankruptcy financing plan, including convertible loan
Latin America 15 Sep 2020 Avianca Avianca appeals order that blocked $370 million emergency loan
Latin America 25 Jun 2020 Avianca Avianca Could Stop Paying Some Employees For Up To A Year
Latin America 28 Aug 2020 Avianca Avianca Looks To Resume Operations With 14 Domestic Routes
Latin America 20 Sep 2020 Avianca Colombian courts throw a major wrench into Avianca’s restructuring
Latin America 15 Oct 2020 Avianca Avianca Will Furlough 30% Of Its Workforce By 2022
Latin America 13 Sep 2020 Avianca Government Loan To Avianca Blocked By Colombian Court
Latin America 13 May 2020 Avianca Avianca Peru is being liquidated