United Airlines will delay the planned furlough date of nearly 3,000 pilots until Oct. 31, in a bid to buy more time for negotiators to hammer out an agreement to keep the entire workgroup in place until summer 2021.
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Business travel is down approximately 65%. Empty spaces fill airport parking lots and you can sit anywhere you want at the food court. As summer ends and the holidays approach, airports miss their most frequent customers, business travelers, and the non-aeronautical revenue their numbers represent.
No one will be more disappointed by the decision announced today that IATA’s 2020 AGM event is going virtual than the association’s leader, Alexandre de Juniac.
Eurocontrol and chief executives of European air navigation service providers met virtually to discuss options for the deepening financial crisis caused by a “huge and ongoing decrease” in flight activity because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airlines will most likely have to ask governments for more financial support as the COVID-19 pandemic deepens, IATA director general and CEO Alexandre de Juniac said.
From United launching COVID-19 testing for San Francisco-Hawaii route to IATA reluctantly turning 2020 AGM into virtual event, and more. A roundup of Aviation Daily news.
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Two of Brazil’s major airlines continue to add back capacity at a faster pace than other operators around the world as demand within the country continues to recover.
The CEOs of Dubai and London Heathrow airports believe bilateral testing trials could set the scene for a more unified response to COVID, while Amsterdam Schiphol’s CEO warned that the current status quo must not be normalized.
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