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Ben Goldstein

American Airlines is using the air travel downturn as an opportunity to expand into the U.S. northeast and west coast markets where the carrier has struggled for years to compete against Delta Air Lines and United Airlines.
 
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3,200 planes sat at American airports this spring as the COVID-19 pandemic raged. Airlines slashed fleets, routes, and began preparing to slash their workforce – some by 45 percent. Just last year the industry was facing a pilot shortage, with estimates of 200,000 pilots needed by 2038. But with fewer flights and the pandemic continuing, there’s too many pilots and aviation students who are preparing for turbulence in the job market.
 
Sean Broderick

A sudden reversal in incrementally positive demand trends will force Southwest Airlines to scale back its 2020 capacity plans, but executives are confident that the headwinds will not force it to cut staff beyond what voluntary programs will accomplish.
 
 
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Linda Blachly

Aircraft cabin manufacturers continue to innovate to develop new cabin designs, and many have responded to what aircraft interiors could look like in the post-COVID-19 environment—particularly in the economy cabin that would enable social distancing between passengers.
 
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Jens Flottau

The A380’s competitive disadvantage has always been that airlines need a very high passenger load factor to make the economics work.
 
AWIN ANALYSIS
From Spirit Airlines deferring Airbus deliveries over pandemic slowdown to British Airways pilots’ deal includes 270 compulsory job cuts and more. A roundup of Aviation Daily news.
 
FLIGHTS PATH FORWARD
 
Jens Flottau

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing airline fleet planning fundamentally. Some older models such as the Airbus A340 or the Boeing 747 are being retired as passenger aircraft.
 
Listen in as Teal Group Vice President Richard Aboulafia joins Aviation Week editors to discuss how long would it take Airbus and Boeing to recover from a big decline in Chinese sales.
 
COVID-19 has not just rewritten the airline economics rulebook—it has devoured it. The revised financial outlook for 2020 is for airlines to make a loss of some $85 billion.
 
Graham Warwick

It may not seem like it, but the last 12 months have been fairly busy when it comes to civil aircraft entering flight testing.
 
Flight Paths Forward: A detailed examination of the future of the aerospace industry as we begin to climb out of the COVID-19 crisis. Join us for two weeks of virtual content including in-depth reports, videos, webinars, CEO interviews and technology-focused podcasts.
 
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July 28
10:00 EDT | 15:00 BST | 16:00 CEST

As the EU and UK continue to relax their borders, demand is starting to return to the continent. But the impact from airlines down the tourism business chain has already been seismic, with little of the summer season left to claw back revenues. We learn more about how safety standards and marketing can reignite passenger demand, and how networks are being rebuilt for the return of leisure travel across Europe

  • Can Europe salvage the critical summer 2020 season?
  • How can the industry instill confidence in passengers who are unwilling to travel?
  • How can airports and airlines coordinate to rebuild viable long-term routes?

Join Aviation Week Network to discuss this crucial topic.
 
CAPA ANALYSIS
Like most other airlines around the world, AirAsia has run into financial headwinds.  What happens in the next few weeks will determine its future.
 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
 
Ben Goldstein

Executives at United Airlines predict the slow recovery in air travel demand will reach a ceiling of around half of 2019 levels, at which point they expect traffic to remain broadly static until a vaccine for COVID-19 becomes widely available.
 

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