Air France, Lufthansa, Delta, United, American, world’s largest airlines, lost $40bn to COVID-19 since January

Charles Abuede

With the current global travel limitations and lockdown rules across the airline market, which is expected to trigger the airline travellers revenues drop by $300 billion in 2020, the world’s biggest airlines, namely, Air France, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, Lufthansa Group and United Airlines, are seeing stunning misfortunes in their market capitalisation. Very few enterprises have encountered such an extreme impact of the coronavirus pandemic like the airline business.

The combined market capitalization for the five largest airline organisations on the planet plunged by $40.9 billion since January, arriving at an aggregate of $36.9 billion toward the end of last week, according data compiled by BuyShares.

Combined market cap plunged by half amid COVID-19 outbreak

Data from YCharts and MacroTrends revealed that in January, the consolidated market capitalization of Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, Lufthansa Group, United Airlines, and Air France, as the world’s five biggest open carrier organisations by revenue, added up to $77.8 billion.

Consequently, after the Black Monday crash, this figure halved to $25.3 billion in the third week stretch of March, indicating a 67 per cent fall since the start of the year. The downsizing pattern continued in the following two months of April and May with the joint market cap tumbling to $25 billion toward the end of May.

However, this figure expanded by almost $12 billion over the most recent two months, coming to $36.9 billion in the third week stretch of July. Nevertheless, the worth of the firms’ market cap by this time represents a 52 per cent dive contrasted with January figures.

Meanwhile, gathered data show the market cap of Delta Air Lines, as the world’s biggest airline by revenue, stumbled by 54 per cent in the midst of COVID-19 emergency, tumbling from $35.5 billion in January to $16.5 billion in the third week stretch of July.

Also, the combined estimation of portions of American Airlines, the second-biggest airline by income, and the leading carrier by flown passenger kilometres remained at $4.8 billion a week ago, representing a 58 per cent fall since the start of the year.

In a similar trend, United Airlines have seen a 57 per cent drop in market capitalization in the most recent seven months, with the value plunging from $19.3 billion in January to $8.2 billion a week ago. More data from YCharts and MarketTrends indicates that the three biggest aircraft in the United States lost a sum of $36.7 billion in combined market capitalisation in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.

Two largest European airlines lost $4.1 billion in market capitalization

The world’s third-biggest carrier by revenue, Lufthansa Group, has moreover seen a significant fall in the total value of shares in the last seven months. In January, the market cap of Europe’s biggest carrier remained at $7.42 billion. After the Black Monday Crash, the absolute estimation of the organisation’s shares faltered to $4.49 billion, indicating a 40 per cent drop within a quarter. Statistics further revealed that Lufthansa Airline’s capitalization added up to $5.51 billion toward the finish of last week, showing a 25 per cent drop since the start of the year.

Air France, as the world’s fifth biggest flyer by revenue, lost $2.2 billion in market cap in the midst of the COVID-19 emergency. In January, the total value of the organisation’s shares remained at $4.2 billion, but fell below $2 billion by the end of last week. It was revealed in the data that the two biggest European airline firms on the list lost $4.1 billion in combined market capitalisation since the start of the year.