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Jet2 expecting to halve winter 2020/21 capacity

Airline and operator posts £119 million pre-tax loss for six months to 30 September owing to ’unprecedented operational and financial challenges’

Delay in taskforce report threatens Christmas travel, MPs warn

Global Travel Taskforce had been due to report to PM in early November

Jet2 launches winter 2021/22 Iceland programme

Scheduled services available from Manchester and Birmingham, as well as 37 three- or four-night trips from seven other UK bases

Etihad and El Al to explore closer working relationship

Codeshare, greater commercial cooperation and loyalty scheme reciprocity among features of new virtual memorandum of understanding

Norwegian Air seeks bankruptcy protection

Budget airline to reorganise under Irish law

British Airways outlines three-stage Covid testing trial

Carrier teams up with American Airlines and oneworld alliance to roll out three-test scheme to monitor negative Covid status and cut quarantine

UK agrees bilateral Air Services Agreement with US

New deal will replace existing EU arrangement, allowing UK-US travel to continue at the end of the EU transition period

Emirates increases frequencies following UK-UAE air corridor agreement

Emirates confirms bigger aircraft and more frequencies for UK flights

Boeing 737 Max cleared for return to service

US regulators spell out procedures to airlines for Boeing Max reintroduction

EasyJet reports first ever annual loss; predicts quicker recovery for packages

‘EasyJet is strongly positioned to be a leader in the recovery of the European airline’

United Airlines operates first Covid-free flight to London

Transatlantic flight is first in series of Covid-tested services to Heathrow

EasyJet 'keeping a close eye' on govt funding for rivals

‘We will make sure that all the relevant authorities are up to date on what’s going on if we can see that that [competition distortion] is taking place’

JetBlue secures Gatwick, Stansted slots for budget US services

New York-based JetBlue comes step closer to UK services

Aer Lingus gets green light for transatlantic joint venture

Irish carrier gets OK to expand across the pond

Jet2 announces four new Greek routes for summer 2021

The routes will provide more choice from Newcastle and East Midlands

Webinar: Malaysia Airlines' Covid-19 protocols

TTG has teamed up with Malaysia Airlines to bring you a webinar covering everything you need to know to reassure customers they can fly confidently with the carrier

Loganair to resume Teesside-Jersey flights next summer

Twice-weekly route to operate on Saturdays and Sundays, starting 8 May

Korean Air agrees takeover of rival carrier

Asiana Airlines to be swallowed up in consolidation deal

Virgin Atlantic 'ready' for Covid vaccine airlift

Virgin Atlantic offers new vaccine storage and air freight service

Emirates ready to up UK flights to Dubai after travel corridor boost

Carrier says UK government’s decision to add UAE to travel corridor list recognises country’s efforts to contain the Covid pandemic

Shapps hopeful of reducing quarantine by Christmas

Government looking to reduce current 14-day quarantine through ’test to release’ scheme

Sri Lankan Airlines to launch direct London-Maldives link

Carrier’s winter schedule now features a twice-weekly Heathrow-Male service

Dnata’s travel division sees sales plunge by 95%

Parent company Emirates Group still expects a “steep recovery” in travel post-vaccine

Jet Blue chief: Aviation still seen as part of the Covid problem

Robin Hayes tells WTM Virtual a ’common framework’ for Covid travel would be ’immensely beneficial’ and would avoid different rules at each stage of the passenger journey