Airlines for America (A4A) announced that its member carriers will be “vigorously enforcing” face covering policies for both passengers and customer-facing employees. The A4A added that Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines will be implementing new policies surrounding face masks….
Delta Air Lines this week said its Delta Flight Products subsidiary has designed and is manufacturing a custom plexiglass safety barrier especially for airport check-in lobbies, departure gates and Delta Sky Club counters. The new barriers are already being tested at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL), a Delta hub, and…
Recovery in air travel in the United States will likely start with more point-to-point travel, with hubs taking a longer time to return to previous levels of passenger traffic, predicts William Swelbar, chief industry strategist for Delta Airport Consultants and research engineer for MIT International Center for Air Transportation. Swelbar…
…car employees who have seen their pay shrink as their work hours have been reduced. The lunches went to support the employees who work for the airlines operating out of Green Bay—Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, American Airlines and the rental car companies–Budget, Alamo, Enterprise, National and Avis. “Between both…
…in negative net bookings,” says Swelbar, chief industry strategist for Richmond, VA-based Delta Aviation Consultants. “Probably as close as the industry came to a V-shaped recovery was with the SARS outbreak. But that was primarily a China-centric event and an international issue for the airlines. This pandemic impacts all domestic…
