Shomporko Desk:-Air Canada is reporting a $1.75 billion loss in its most recent quarter as incomes dove 89 per cent due to the grounding of maximum flights because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Montreal-based airline says it lost $6.44 per diluted share, contrasted and overall income equaling $1.26 per share or $343 million every year earlier.
Incomes for the three months finished June 30 were $527 million, down from $4.74 billion in the second quarter of 2019. Passenger incomes tumbled to $207 million while cargo incomes increased 52 per cent to $269 million.
Air Canada was expected to lose $1 billion or $3.96 per share on $436.3 million of revenues, according to financial markets data firm Refinitiv.
The country’s largest airline says it has access to $9.12 billion of cash after raising $5.5 billion in new equity, debt and aircraft financings since March.
It cut spending in large part by reducing management and front-line workers to save $1.3 billion, permanently retiring 79 aircraft representing more than 30 per cent of its overall fleet, suspending some domestic routes and cutting its network capacity by 92 per cent.
“As with many other major airlines worldwide, Air Canada’s second-quarter results confirm the devastating and unprecedented effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and government-imposed travel and border restrictions and quarantine requirements,” stated CEO Calin Rovinescu.
“Canada’s federal and inter-provincial restrictions have been among the most severe in the world, effectively shutting down most commercial aviation in our country, which, together with otherwise fragile demand, resulted in Air Canada carrying less than four per cent of the passengers carried during last year’s second quarter.”
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News source: The Canadian Press
