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Some have criticized the rule as a gift to the airlines.
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In 2020, the U.S. Transportation Department issued a rule clarifying how it interprets its statutory authority to prohibit airlines from engaging in “unfair or deceptive practices.”
 
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Delivering comfort in what was once thought of as a niche segment, crossover narrowbody jets such as the Airbus A220 family and the first and second generations of Embraer E-Jet families have changed the way in which airlines address capacity requirements.
 
UPS is set to start Airbus A300 cockpit modification lines, COMAC is scaling up in Shanghai and the new U.S. testing requirement slows capacity growth for Volaris. Take a look at the daily roundup of air transport news. 
 
Ryanair, easyJet and Wizz Air's results for calendar 4Q2020 were not pleasant. The three LCCs have performed better than Europe's leading legacy airline groups in the COVID-19 pandemic, so their results provide an upper boundary for the likely performance of the legacies when they report.
 
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