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LATAM Airlines posted a $769.6m loss in Q2, the company said on Monday, as South America’s largest carrier continued to navigate a bankruptcy brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Total revenues in the second quarter of 2021 hit $888.7m, down 62.5% from 2019, the year prior to the pandemic, the company said. “This decline ... was explained by a 77.4% decrease in passenger revenues and a drop of 22.4% in other revenues, but partially offset by cargo operations,” the company said in a statement accompanying its Q2 results. LATAM filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States in May 2020, a process that is still ongoing. At the time, it was the world’s largest airline to take such action because of COVID-19. The company said costs related to the restructuring, including lease renegotiations, had contributed to the loss. LATAM’s operating expenses also fell 46.5% from the same period in 2019, as operations remained well below pre-pandemic levels, the results showed, reducing fuel costs, wages and benefits. LATAM, headquartered in Santiago, also operates in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, as well as having international operations throughout Latin America, Europe, the United States and the Caribbean. <br/>

American Airlines sued website publishing system Joomla and host CloudAccess on Sunday in Manhattan federal court for allegedly allowing a counterfeit website to steal user credentials for the airline's site. Unknown parties misused American's trademarks and copyrights to trick consumers into believing americanairlines.joomla.com was the real website for the airline's cargo services, and Joomla and CloudAccess never responded after American told them about it, according to the complaint. American declined to comment. American's attorney Daniel Filor of Greenberg Traurig didn't immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did CloudAccess or Joomla's owner Open Source Matters Inc. The complaint said that Joomla provides free software for creating and launching websites hosted on CloudAccess' platform. According to American, Joomla allowed a user to create the fake American website without verifying whether the person was affiliated with the company, and Joomla "would have quickly realized that the person creating the account was not affiliated with American" if it had "made any effort to do so." The airline said the Joomla site collects usernames, passwords, and email addresses from consumers who think they are signing into an account to track American cargo shipments, which can be sold to hackers or used to access to their American accounts and others with similar login credentials. American said it told Joomla and CloudAccess about the fake site as early as last December, but they never responded. The website is still active.<br/>

Cathay Pacific is planning to cut the checked baggage allowance for its cheapest economy tickets from 30kg to 23kg, while all other cabin classes will be getting substantial luggage weight upgrades. Sources said the changes were formulated in an effort to convince passengers to shell out more, including for economy tickets offering greater flexibility, rather than instinctively opting for the cheapest fare – a move that may prove unpopular in some quarters. However, the changes will also position Cathay favourably compared to some global rivals – such as Singapore Airlines and Emirates – by offering a more generous baggage allowance for almost all fliers. Currently, economy, premium economy, business and first class tickets come with baggage allowances of 30kg, 35kg, 40kg and 50kg, respectively. Economy class is further broken down into three types of fares: “save”, “core” and “flex”, all of which enjoy the 30kg baggage allowance. While the latter two tickets are more expensive – with flex fares sometimes more than twice as much as save ones – they also offer travellers more flexibility.<br/>