HOTR: Five more airlines under court restructuring or ceasing operations

By the Leeham News Staff Aug. 31, 2020, © Leeham News: The Smartwings Group is the latest airline to file for a court restructuring. LNA’s monthly tracking of failed carriers adds Virgin Atlantic, EasyFly, Go2Sky, ExpressJet, and the… Read More

Restoring capacity with the A330ceo or A330neo, Part 6, Wrapup.

Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction   July 23, 2020, © Leeham News: Over the last four weeks, we analyzed the venerable Airbus A330, to see if the present low fuel and lease prices make the recent A330neo version… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Do I get COVID in airline cabins? Part 11. Wrapup.

July 18, 2020, ©. Leeham News: It’s time to wrap our Corner series about flying during the COVID-19 pandemic. We started the series on the 8th of May. A lot of knowledge has been gained since, about COVID-19… Read More

An economic crisis on top of a medical one: Why airline traffic won’t fully recover until the mid-late 2020s

Open To All Readers By Judson Rollins Introduction July 13, 2020, © Leeham News: As the world waits for the COVID-19 storm to abate, questions are growing over the duration of a demand downturn for airlines. Many journalists… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Do I get COVID in airline cabins? Part 10. Trans-Atlantic trip.

By Vincent Valery     July 10th, 2020, © Leeham News: In our Corner series about flying during the COVID-19 pandemic, we look at a trip undertaken last week by a member of the LNA team, Vincent Valery. Vincent, who… Read More

Restoring capacity with the A330ceo or A330neo, Part 4

Subscription Required By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction   July 9, 2020, © Leeham News: Last week, we started the analysis of restoring capacity with the Airbus A330-300 or the A330-900 when reopening international traffic after the COVID-19 lockdown. As we… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Do I get COVID in airline cabins? Part 9. Stay hydrated.

July 3, 2020, ©. Leeham News: In our Corner series about flying during the COVID-19 pandemic, we examine how cabin humidity affects the risks of getting COVID-19. The extensive research around the seasonality of flu infections gives us… Read More

HOTR: Aircraft lease rates, values continue to plunge in virus environment

By the Leeham News Staff June 30, 2020, © Leeham News: Fifteen year old aircraft values and leases plunged compared with six month ago, according to the latest analysis by Ishka. Ishka is an aircraft appraisal and consultancy…. Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Do I get COVID in airline cabins? Part 8. Boarding and deboarding.

June 26, 2020, ©. Leeham News: In our Corner series about flying during the COVID-19 pandemic, we look closer at the boarding and deboarding part. We have identified it as possibly the most troublesome part of a flight… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Do I get COVID in airline cabins? Part 7. Effects of prevention.

June 19, 2020, ©. Leeham News: In our Corner series about flying during the COVID-19 pandemic, we look at opening up traveling and how re-emerging infection clusters can be handled. With a four-month pandemic history, several studies now… Read More