It said that was equal to the number of flights United Airlines, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines were required to cancel under Beijing's “circuit-breaker” system. The ruling Communist Party's “zero COVID” strategy aims to keep the virus out of China while other governments are shif...
Canadian airline flights remain far below 2019 pre-pandemic levels. The Canadian airline sector won't fully recover until a COVID-19 vaccine is widely distributed and the general public regains confidence that air travel is safe from the COVID-19 virus. Air Canada projects that it will be ...
COVID-19 Recessions Uncertainty Unemployment 1. Introduction The global pandemic from the spread of COVID-19 has created uncertainty for many as quarantines, hospitalizations, and tragically, related-deaths continue to growth. Travel restrictions have reduced the mobility of individuals across the globe...
President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday announced the cancellation of all flights and closure of all borders to prevent the COVID-19 spread in the country. The president said no passengers would be allowed into the east African country whether by air, water or land starting March 23. Museveni s...
As commercial flights gradually return, belly supply will increase, although not to pre-COVID-19 levels for at least a few years, as the industry is expected stay smaller than before the pandemic for several years. The call: Bring back freighters, carefu...
Air travelers were more likely to book tickets in a shorter time frame, and cancel flights due to a sudden local outbreak, and there could be a reduction in the number of leisure travelers (see Zhang et al., 2021). The suspension of international flights means idle fleet capacities are ...
The airlines said they wanted US and European governments to adopt a co-ordinated Covid-19 testing programme for transatlantic flights, in order to “enhance safety and build confidence in critical transatlantic passenger air services”. “In addition to all the significant and unprecedented actions ...
SYDNEY, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Australia's national carrier Qantas announced on Tuesday that it will cut international flights by 90 percent and domestic services by 60 percent to cope with COVID-19 disruptions. The changes will also affect the company's budget carrier, Jetstar, and will remai...
Even with only 10 percent of its capacity still intact, since March Delta has been providingfree flights to medical professionalson the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis. Delta’s innovative subsidiary Flight Products, who designed and built the new wireless IFEs on the A220 and A...
The COVID-19 pandemic may have upset this trend, however; airlines will need to rethink pricing to fill nonstop flights, potentially reducing the nonstop premium and thereby undercutting demand for connecting flights operating on the same route. Environmental concerns. Passengers on a connecti...