Airlines
IATA Warns About Airlines’ Growing Cash Crisis
Airlines stand to burn a total of $77 billion during the second half of the year.

The International Air Transport Association on Tuesday sounded another alarm about the world’s airlines’ ability to overcome accelerating cash burn, estimated now to total $77 billion during the second half of the year. According to IATA chief economist Brian Pearce, the median airline can operate for roughly 8.5 months with the cash it controls, a rapidly eroding position that marks only a modest improvement over the period before governments injected their first tranche of aid.