Airlines in a Crisis

It's not a crash / downturn / new normal for a business started now. They don't have a lot of parked planes they have to pay for or staff costs for people that have nothing to do, or now massively oversized other fixed costs for an airline 4 times what they are flying. Their start out cost base will be where other airlines are trying to get to through negotiating pay and lease reductions. And what for established airlines will just be a (partial) future return to normal will for them be a giant upswing. Add in a bit of what others can't do because it isn't like it used to be and you could be on to a winner. Something for CoVid19 times like optional social distancing through middle seat free. Flexible changes instead of outright refunds. Remember they don't have a massive presale either of seats that may or may not be taken up, so they should now that they who book now knows the pandemic story. New airlines now have a massive selection of used and new planes fro...

Norwegian came out with its plan to serve the norwegian market with norwegian package hollidays at the same day as the government opened up for travel within the Nordic countries. Only work related for now but this government have proved so wobbly when it comes to standing by its decisions that anything could happen. actually most countries governments have in this crisis proved that any reopening schedule tends to be fast forwarded as the lightest political pressure appear from all sorts of groups. This means an airline like Norwegian that have and still should serve an international market need to be planning far ahead to take advantage of all planned opening dates for borders and relaxation dates for quarantines. In addition to having contingency plans for when these move forward. As they also should have plans for if they get more restrictive again. If something is announced by any of the countries they could fly to Norwegian as an airline should within hours come up with a pla...