As airlines cautiously reopen their doors to global travel, Qatar Airways confronts a future business blueprint with entangled unavoidable negative impacts and not-bads. Summer Journalism Fellow Hypatia Wu highlights how the Qatari giant is facing a major pullback on expansion efforts and increasingly fierce competition from its Middle Eastern rivals.
Read MoreLast March the Icelandic company Wow Air cancelled its flights and announced the cessation of its operations. The breakdown means the loss of more than a thousand jobs, and, according to the country’s Central Bank, may greatly impact the nation’s economy.
Read MoreAirplanes, against popular sentiment, are remarkably safe forms of transport: in 2016, there were 37,000 deaths by car in America alone, compared to zero by air travel. In fact, this is the first passenger death to occur on a U.S. plane in nine years. Yet, Southwest will not be unaffected by this tragedy.
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