Aviation
Insight behind the World’s Top 20 Airlines 2020 by OAG
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Insight behind the World’s Top 20 Airlines 2020 by OAG: Take Off provides high-level insight into current airline performance drawing on data from the summer season 2020.
Take Off not only provides data on global rankings, both domestically and internationally, for the Top 20 airlines, but includes data on the number of routes operated (minimum frequency of 1 flight per week), seats, flights, Top 5 airports, capacity trends since the start of the year, and fleet metrics.
The narrative and data, unsurprisingly, are unlike any other year. However, there is, as always, a spectrum of impact. Whilst the Top 20 airlines saw a fall in domestic capacity (seats) of 45% compared to last summer, and international air services reduced by a whopping 82%, some airlines have fared better than others and moved up the global rankings.
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Some highlights:
- Bolstered by the scale of their domestic market and relative control of the pandemic, Chinese airlines China Southern, China Eastern and Air China have seen the least impact and moved up now placing 2nd, 3rd and 6th, respectively.
- Southwest Airlines retains its position as the world’s largest airline, also boosted by its focus on the sizeable US domestic market. Its major US peers, however, have fared much worse as hub operations have been affected by reduced services and consumer preference for direct flights.
- The major US carriers, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Airlines, have all fallen in terms of rankings as a result of the impact on their hub airports and reduced connectivity between international and domestic flights.
- Some airlines have dropped out of the Top 20 airlines in Summer 2020; Emirates and Qatar Airways are two of these, both airlines with no domestic market and reliant on international markets.
- Conversely, five airlines make it in to the Top 20 including Japan Airlines, Aeroflot, LATAM and Air Canada which benefit from sizeable domestic markets which have been relatively less affected.
- The scale of the fleet changes is apparent in the airline orderbooks which have provision for increasing the narrowbody fleet by 44% and the widebody fleet by 19%.
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Aviation
Boeing, Antonov to Collaborate on Defense Projects
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– MOU represents Boeing’s commitment to work with Ukrainian industry
– Includes exploring opportunities for collaborating on in-country support of Unmanned Aerial Systems
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed today by Boeing and Antonov Company to investigate potential collaboration on defense-related projects.
“We’re happy to keep collaborating with the Antonov Company to help Ukraine’s economic development and expansion,” stated Ted Colbert, CEO and president of Boeing Defence, Space, & Security.
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“This agreement demonstrates our ongoing efforts to find more opportunities to work with Ukrainian industry, which was underscored by our signing of the Ukrainian Defence Industry Compact earlier this year.”
The areas of potential collaboration identified in the agreement consist of training, logistical support and overhaul services for tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems utilized by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which includes the ScanEagle. In addition, the companies will also explore opportunities for Antonov to provide engineering support to Boeing.
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“A strong, innovative, and efficient defense industry is key to sustainable economic development and national security, and we are extremely excited to collaborate with Boeing,” said Ievhen Gavrylov, CEO of Antonov Company.
This agreement brings a whole new level of opportunity to implement the latest and most effective solutions – in addition to the possibility of future projects with Boeing in the aerospace and defense industry.”
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