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Cannot promise layoffs won’t happen in 2021

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Air Transport Digest
 
Ben Goldstein

Southwest Airlines will refrain from laying off workers or cutting pay rates and benefits through year end, despite persistently weak customer demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
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Military planes have been seen in the skies more often this summer as their pilots take advantage of the decrease in commercial air traffic due to COVID-19. It’s a great time for the U.S. Air Force’s largest tanker to work on touch-and-gos.
 
Kurt Hofmann

The Austrian government now requires travelers from 32 nations to get a PCR test on arrival in the country to check whether or not they have COVID-19.
 
 
Linda Blachly

India’s Vistara received its first Airbus A321neo, which will be used on short- to medium-haul international routes or destinations within seven hours of flying time.
 
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Linda Blachly

As the aviation industry desperately tries to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and begins to recover, technology companies are doubling down efforts to innovate solutions to make air travel safer to boost passenger confidence. Here are some of the latest innovations.
 
FLIGHT PATH FORWARD
Since June, airlines have started to reinstate substantial capacity, and now must hope demand will return as expected.
 
FLIGHT PATH FORWARD
The global air transport industry ended 2019 on a bit of a damp note as rising fuel and labor costs, a weakening trade environment and infrastructure constraints pulled down initial projections for a $35.5 billion collective profit to a less spectacular $28 billion, a $2 billion decline from 2018.
 
AWIN ANALYSIS
From TAP operating 40% of capacity in September to Etihad requiring passengers to carry COVID-19 health test certificate and more. A roundup of Aviation Daily news.
 
POLL QUESTION
  • Yes, it ensures virus-free international travel
  • No, it makes flying too difficult
 
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TOMORROW'S WEBINAR
 

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
One area that has remained opaque during the COVID-19 pandemic is the timeline for planned US start-ups that aimed to debut in 2020 or 2021.
 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
 
Ben Goldstein

The disparate capacity strategies pursued by the three large U.S. network airlines are converging, reflecting a new consensus about the path of demand and the most rational way to serve it.
 

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