Six
months into 2021 European
air traffic is less than half the volumes of mid-June
2019. But
air cargo continues to soar up 16% over volumes two years ago with a fraction
of the cargo-carrying aircraft in service from the June
2019 timeframe . . . Brussels
Airlines is back over the Atlantic
with flights to New York and
Washington, D.C. beginning
this week. Route to New York’s JFK will operate on Mondays, Fridays
and Sundays, using an Airbus A330-300.
Flights go to four a week July 1. Route out of D.C.’s Dulles will
operate four times per week, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays
. . . Bailouts
appopin’—SAS gets
€300 million from Denmark
and Sweden awaits EU rubber
stamp after losing €240 million first quarter .
. . Meantime Aeroflot Group
lost €280 million in Q1 . . . China
Southern Airlines receives US$156 million cash injection
from state owned parent . . .
Despite already having been cancelled twice due to outbreaks Hong
Kong and Singapore
will try again with a travel bubble due to launch in July
. . . Elsewhere Hong
Kong Airlines plans to ground most of its fleet of planes
and use those still flying to carry cargo, grounding its entire fleet of
A320s with only eight A330 jets to continue flying. Carrier has long felt
the cash squeeze enhanced now by bankrupt stockholder, Mainland China conglomerate
HNA Group .
. . The BIFA Freight Service
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