While most large U.S. carriers plan to be 20-30% smaller by year end, Southwest Airlines is bucking the trend.

Southwest Airlines plans to shrink its headcount through employee buyouts, as it seeks to align staffing levels with the decline in demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emirates Airline would welcome a partnership with a large U.S. airline, but alliance-related politics and a long-simmering but recently solved row over subsidies continue to present major hurdles, Emirates president Tim Clark suggested.

The field of suitors for Virgin Australia has narrowed to two, with Bain Capital and Cyrus Capital Partners shortlisted by the administrator as the preferred bidders.

Welcome to Routes’ look at how aviation markets in the Middle East & African are recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.

As airlines and airports around the world respond to the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, Routes looks at the current state of the global aviation market.

Southwest Airlines has said it received its second disbursement of payroll support from the U.S. federal government, which will enable the airline carrying the most U.S. domestic air passengers to avoid furloughs or shrinking the size of the LCC through Sept. 30.

TAP Air Portugal will operate transatlantic service from June 4 for the first time since COVID-19 travel restrictions were implemented in late March…