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Issues extend to everyday business practices, such as using repairs instead of new parts.

Emirates Airline plans to boost its operational workforce by recruiting additional 2,500 staff over the next six months, as pandemic-related travel restrictions ease worldwide with the wider administration of COVID-19 vaccines.

Europe’s airlines are calling for updated travel rules to fit the new recovery phase.

ACI EUROPE reports European airport traffic is down 1.26b pax (62%) so far in 2021 vs 2019, including down 41% in August-October. It is forecasting

WESTJET plans by end 2021 to have restored service to >95 destinations across the airline's domestic/international network.

Long-term retirement totals expected to stay the same, but revised timing could create supply chain issues.

AMERICAN AIRLINES is projecting 4Q21 capacity to be down 11-13% vs 4Q19, but expects robust demand during peak travel periods.

ALASKA AIRLINES says it is operating 85% of its pre-COVID-19 network with operations at its Seattle hub fully restored.

AMERICAN AIRLINES had $169m net income for 3Q21 (vs $425m in 3Q19) on 24% lower revenues vs 3Q19. It says it is continuing to execute on plan to pay

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES posted $446m net income for 3Q21 (vs $659m in 3Q19) on 17% lower revenues vs 3Q19; it says profit was driven by $763m offset of

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES is projecting its 4Q21 capacity to be down about 8% vs 4Q19 and 1Q22 capacity to 6% down vs 1Q19.

ALASKA AIR GROUP had $194m net income in 3Q21 (vs $322m in 3Q19) on 26% lower revenues vs 3Q19.

French airlines are criticizing an aviation agreement between the European Union and Qatar, saying it will intensify competitive pressure for airlines still struggling with the impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

Although the recovery in Latin America from the COVID-19 pandemic may lag other areas of the world, there’s no shortage of ambition among the region’s startup airlines.

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US airlines expand employee vaccine mandates.

After NBAA-BACE was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic, the business aviation community reconvened in Las Vegas.

The Machinists union in Wichita is pushing back on a government mandate requiring employees of government contractors to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as Textron Aviation and Spirit AeroSystems work to comply.

Europe’s travel and tourism industry is calling for a new approach to COVID-19 travel rules in the region, including the elimination of the color-code system introduced in 2020, as European leaders are due to meet in Brussels to discuss the next steps.

Tata Group has won the right to buy Air India, but it faces many challenges to move it toward profitability.

When the next European Council meeting of European leaders convenes in Brussels Oct. 21-22, the agenda will include a discussion of the evolution of COVID-19 travel restrictions.

AirBaltic is requiring all of the airline’s staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by mid-November.

Airline COOs gathered in Brussels praised the EU Digital COVID Certificate but said a lack of coordination in travel rules between countries made flying seem complicated and was still putting off would-be passengers.

More than four in five aviation-related companies recently polled do not require their workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to aviation job website JSfirm.com.

Republican leaders in the U.S. House Transportation Committee have written to President Joe Biden expressing concerns about the administration’s use of airline contracts as “coercive measures” to get carriers to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for their workers.