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The retirement will accelerate the airline’s strategy to simplify and modernize its fleet, while continuing to operate newer, more cost-efficient aircraft. “We’re making strategic, cost-effective changes to our fleet to respond to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic while also ensuring Delta is well-positioned for the recovery on the backside of the crisis,” said Gil West, Delta’s Chief Operating Officer. “The 777 has been a reliable part of Delta’s success since it joined the fleet in 1999 and because of its unique operating characteristics, opened new non-stop, ultra-long-haul markets that only it could fly at that time.” Last month, Delta…
Boeing has been joined by the other mega-sized aircraft builder, Airbus, with financial woes. According to industry analysts, the cash-flow and demand problems will result in deep employee cuts in the future. One might say that Boeing welcomes the company since Airbus has been eating into Boeing customer base in the wake of the 737 MAX disaster. Guillarme Faury, CEO of Airbus said; “The survival of Airbus is in question if we don’t act now,” he wrote in a letter to staff sent on April 24th. Airbus was “bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed,” Faury said. “We must now act…
With COVID-19 devastating the globe and drastically reducing passenger flights on an international scale, along with a decrease of cargo flights (which are still considered as essential businesses), The ARK at JFK – which originally opened and operated as an animal reception terminal and quarantine, bio-secure facility – provides an even more critical function now more than ever, when health and hygiene come first and foremost. Most recently, The ARK at JFK expanded its business lines (in addition to animal transport) during the time of COVID-19, by working with the medical community – specifically medical eggs which are utilized in the development and manufacture of flu, MMR and…
With food insecurity at all-time high, particular in the New Jersey and New York areas, hardest hit by COVID-19, United Airline recently donated food that was to be used to serve their customers from Newark Airport. United donated over 15,000lbs. of perishable and non-perishable goods, which was split between their existing local community partners including City Harvest, Food Bank of South Jersey and Community Food Bank of New Jersey. “United Airlines core value is connecting people, uniting the world, and that starts within our local communities,” said Jill Kaplan, President of New Jersey/New York for United Airlines. “As a company,…
During the week of April 27th, 2020 GatewayJFK, a business improvement district in Southeast Queens sent 745 meals from restaurants in their neighborhood to frontline workers at Jamaica Hospital, the MTA, DSNY, Wildcat Sanitation Services, and the NYPD. In addition to donating meals as a way to say “thank you” to frontline workers, GatewayJFK launched their effort as a way to help keep local restaurants open and keep their staff working. To provide the meals, GatewayJFK partnered with 5 anchor restaurants in their neighborhood; Rockaway Plaza Delicatessen, New Castle Deli & Grocery, Boulevard Deli & Grill, Patriots Deli & Grill,…
Alaska Airlines is currently putting its Boeing 737 jets to the test as cargo-only aircraft during this COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement, Alaska Airlines announced its intention to use passenger jets for cargo-only operations. Alaska Airlines is going to use six 737-900s for cargo-only flights. These select flights will be used to carry essential goods like medical supplies and PPE, along with mail and food. The statement said that by filling the aircraft with cargo, it would help make up for the loss in capacity following restrictions imposed by the coronavirus crisis. When speaking about Alaska Airlines plan to use…
With thousands of commercial aircraft in idle condition or in short- or longer-term storage due to the COVID-19 crisis, airlines and MROs are being forced to adapt their workflows to keep aircraft in healthy condition indefinitely until operations can begin returning to normal. Approximately 9,000 aircraft are now in short-term parked status and more than 3,000 aircraft have gone through the process of being put in storage. For American Airlines, which now has approximately 300 idled aircraft parked across its network in Mobile, Alabama; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Roswell, New Mexico, the situation builds on what the airline was…
While running through my usual roster of aviation data and regulatory updates, I came across a website which went chapter and verse on the route changes that almost every airline in the United States is planning to make in the face of greatly reduced traffic. As COVID-19 has been a once-in-a-lifetime health crisis for the political leaders, and health providers with new rules, a new generation of virus, with little reliable information to act on; the scope and duration has also been a hammer-blow to the aviation industry. The airlines are in a state of flux and if the aviation…
Transportation Security Administration officers are following CDC advice and staying home when they are not working at the airport, and a few of them are making good use of their time by keeping busy sewing masks for family, friends and first responders on the front lines of the coronavirus. Supervisory TSA officer Susan Schultz, who works at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, has sewn more than 300 masks, sometimes working until midnight to meet what has become a growing demand for masks in her community. And Justine Waldron, a TSA officer who works at Barnstable Municipal Airport on Cape…
The PANYNJ honors Women Entrepreneurs every year in some meaningful way. This year for Women’s History Month in March the program was to feature an installation at the beautiful and historic LaGuardia Marine Terminal. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift in priorities to keep the travelling public and airport employees safe, they decided to eliminate the physical installation, however they shared with Metropolitan Airport News the content that would have been up for all to enjoy. The women selected to be featured are from Queens and deeply involved in the community as well as their businesses.