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American Air CEO Says Bankruptcy Is an Option He Won’t Consider – Bloomberg
We have three related links this week. First, a recap of what American CEO Doug Parker said at an investment conference this week. (United CEO Scott Kirby seems to think the same thing…
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Flight Status – The Washington Post Magazine
It’s a long weekend so we all have more time to kill than usual. So, here’s a nice, long piece looking at the flight attendants who flew R&R flights for Pan Am into and out of Vietnam.
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COVID-19 Outlook for air travel in the next 5 years – IATA
This presentation has all kinds of interesting tidbits around how IATA came to the conclusion that the industry will go back to normal in 3 to 5 years, lagging the rest of the economy. …
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Emirates’ Tim Clark: Coronavirus is a black swan event for the airline industry – The National
I’m a sucker for a CEO interview that actually has substance. Here’s a good interview with the (probably still) outgoing head of Emirates, Sir Tim Clark.
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The Ghost Airline That Has Linked Cairo and Tel Aviv for Decades – Atlas Obscura
I have always been fascinated by Air Sinai, the airline that only exists for political reasons. This story explained more than I knew, including that as of this year, you can …
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A flight attendant is taking surreal photographs that show what flights look like in the middle of the pandemic – Insider
These are some spectacularly-haunting photos of flight attendants working the line right now.
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Dear Frequent Flyers: Please Stop Whining – One Mile at a Time
Some welcome levity on frequent flier program complainers from an unlikely source.
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Impact of COVID-19: Data Updates – A4A
The relatively mundane title belies the true ugliness you’ll find in this report. This is 15 slides of pure airline carnage. Might want to grab a …
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Ethics of Airline Bailouts in Spotlight With Virgin-Qantas Feud – Bloomberg
Quite the brawl going on down under. Virgin Australia wants the government to bail it out. Qantas sees blood in the water and wants no help. There has been talk of letting the airline fail …
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The Case for Shutting Down U.S. Airlines Now – Skift
It should be shut down, but it’s not just the threat of spreading the disease. It’s also the economic carnage of continuing to operate nearly-empty airplanes. I say bring back the CAB, divvy up the routes …
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Wisconsin’s Midwest Express Airlines ends Elite partnership – ch-aviation
Remember how Midwest Express was going to come back with chocolate chip cookies and all? Scratch that. The airline was going to outsource flying to Elite, but that has now fallen apart and descended into lawsuits. Midwest …
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Coronavirus Is Pushing Some Airlines to the Precipice – Skift
The end is near for some. If this continues, there will be a whole lot of airlines either waiting for government bailouts or failing. Outside of Norwegian, it’s hard for me to think of any huge …
