Australia's aviation industry faces a skills shortage after losing so many workers to the coronavirus pandemic, experts have warned. It is estimated 25,000 people left the commercial aviation sector in Australia after airlines made staffing cuts, having been one of the worst hit industries throug...

Flight punctuality at UK airports has dropped below pre-pandemic levels despite recent hikes in air fares, new figures show. According to UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) data, only 64 per cent of flights took off or landed within 15 mins of their planned time in 2023 - compared to 75 per cent i...

Denmark's Copenhagen Airport said 2023 was its busiest year in four years after 26.8 million passengers passed through its terminals - a 21 per cent increase on 2022. On the busiest days of the year, which were the two days immediately preceding the schools' summer and autumn breaks, more than 10...

The Coronavirus pandemic continues having a very serious impact on airlines and its employees. After two years in "crisis mode," Lufthansa Group flight operations still has to cope with half the number of passengers in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the first quarter of 2019. For captai...

As a result of the Coronavirus crisis, revenue and the number of passengers carried by the Latvian airline airBaltic has significantly decreased, and according to airBaltic's unaudited consolidated financial results for the first six months of 2021, the group suffered loss of EUR 61.5 million. ...

Norwegian Air is on track to leave its restructuring process having raised NOK 6 billion in a “significantly oversubscribed” issuing of new capital perpetual bonds, a rights issue and new shares. The airline, which has closed all long-haul operations due to the Covid-19 crisis in a bid to foc...

The reduction in air travel as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic has sped up work on Delta Air lines’ new terminal at LaGuardia Airport. Following the closure of many routes and the serious fall in passenger numbers, work on the new terminal has progressed so quickly that the new arrivals and d...

Delta Air Lines is ramping up operations in New York with more than 300 daily departures scheduled from its two hubs this summer. Delta senior vice president – air operations, east Henry Kuykendall said that based on current schedules the flights, which will operate out of the city’s John F K...

EasyJet boss Johan Lundgren has referred to the airline’s first half year headline loss before tax of up to £730 million as “better than expectations”. The CEO made the comments about the results for the half year ending March 31, 2021, which showed the airline flew at 14 per cent of H1 20...

Cathay Pacific carried 22,404 passengers in April, a 99.3 per cent decrease on April 2019 before the pandemic struck. However, despite the low numbers the figure still represented an increase of 63.2 per cent on April 2020. This equated to an increase in revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) of ...

United Airlines is growing capacity in time for the summer with 400 additional daily flights and increasing services to Europe. The increase will mean it is United’s largest schedule since before the pandemic, with 80 per cent of its July 2019 schedule being operated, following a 214 per cent i...

Ryanair is hoping to break even in the current year having recorded a full year loss of €815 million in 2021 after undergoing the “most challenging” year thanks to Covid-19. The financial results for the year ending 31 March, 2021, showed it suffered the losses after traffic fell by 81 per ...

Wizz Air UK will be starting operations from its new base at Cardiff Airport on 17 June. The new base will be operating routes to Larnaca, Corfu, Heraklion, Faro, Alicante, Lanzarote, Palma de Mallorca and Tenerife, with flights to Sharm el-Sheikh planned to start in October. (more…)...

EasyJet has added 105,000 extra seats to existing routes to Portugal and Gibraltar following the UK government’s decision to add them both to its travel green list. The airline claims the move means it is now offering 1.65 million seats to European green list destinations once leisure travel is...

Philadelphia International Airport has signed a new agreement with Heathrow Airport to work closely together to support the recovery from Covid-19. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two airports focuses on boosting passenger numbers, implementing innovative measures and increasing...