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British Airways owner cuts capacity as quarantines increase

Air
Rob Gill
22 October 2020

British Airways’ owner IAG is planning to further cut back capacity for the rest of 2020 due to the “high uncertainty of the current environment”.

British Airways and other IAG carriers cut capacity to just 33.5% of 2019 levels

IAG, which also owns Iberia, Aer Lingus and Vueling, plans to run capacity in the final three months of the year at “no more than 30%” of the levels it operated during the same period in 2019.

The company had already announced that it would be cutting fourth quarter capacity by around 60% due to the “levelling off of bookings following the reintroduction of quarantine requirements by many European governments”.