June 9, 2020

Airlines: Post-crisis, big fleet cuts loom

Even as flying starts to become a thing again, if slowly, airlines are still making decisions about how many of their planes to return to service, and how many to retire early, waiting for new demand and new planes to rebuild their fleets. We’ve reported earlier on some specific airline decisions, including the world-wide trend toward the final wind-down of the four-engine era, with rapid retirements of A340s, A380s and 747s from passenger service, and airline decisions to drop older…

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Airlines: Post-crisis, big fleet cuts loom

Even as flying starts to become a thing again, if slowly, airlines are still making decisions about how many of their planes to return to service, and how many to retire early, waiting for new demand and new planes to rebuild their fleets. We’ve reported earlier on some specific airline decisions, including the world-wide trend toward the final wind-down of the four-engine era, with rapid retirements of A340s, A380s and 747s from passenger service, and airline decisions to drop older…

Read More