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Due to a reduction in travel demand UA has announced that it will ground a number of it's planes and reduce pax capacity 20% on international and 10% on U.S. routes in April. UA will also freeze hiring through June 30 and offer employees voluntary unpaid leave.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/trave...ce/4954094002/
JetBlue has announced it also plans to reduce capacity by an "initial 5%" in the near term" B6 is also looking at "including reducing hiring for both frontline and support center positions, considering voluntary time off programs as appropriate, and limiting non-essential spending."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/04/busin...rus/index.html
Alaska has offered their fee free change/cancel (depending on your ticket) which allows either a change or getting a credit certificate without fee for bookings made through 31MAR and for travel this year and a bit beyond. We are actually offering massive OT right now to deal with the call volume - we can't keep up - so no offers of time off at this point. No capacity changes announced to date. Hopefully the future bookings will come in with this guarantee and it won't affect us long term.
LH, because of "dwindling" demand has decided to temporarily (through May 31) ground its entire fleet (14) of A380's. LH is also offering employees unpaid leave.
https://airlinegeeks.com/2020/03/08/...us-a380-fleet/
I truly hope the A380 grounding is "temporary" and not permanent! Way more business seats to roll the dice on. ^_^Quote:
Originally Posted by Migflanker