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Status of Level-branded OpenSkies flights
Hello.

I had indeed cited this source on Level (airline brand) yesterday, but admittedly and erroneously did not note the remarks on OpenSkies-operated flights reopened. That said, OpenSkies' operating status seems to be in limbo; IAG had stated it would close the airline in July, but flights operated by the company were either retroactively reopened for reservations, or sales had never stopped, and scheduling and inventories have been continually updated. I say this as since the publishing of the ch-aviation story, Level's reservations have further pushed back availability (as many international borders remain closed) from October 1 to October 25, or the start of the winter IATA schedule.

On one hand, Level's website explicitly states that short-haul, Level Europe-operated flights from Amsterdam or Vienna are terminated, while at the same time lists OpenSkies flights from Orly for sale and continues to list the airline's respective contract of carriage, while removing those of Level Europe. On the other hand, airlines such as Air France, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, and Norwegian continued to list flights operated by aircraft that were publicly announced as retired (in the case of Air France, British and Virgin, their A380, 747, and A340 fleets), or suspended (in the case of Norwegian, to at least March 2021 for its 787 flights) as open for reservation following said announcements, in some cases for several weeks or months.

This is made more difficult to determine since neither Level nor IAG have made a formal announcement on the plans to close OpenSkies being shelved after July (that I could find), or the reopening of reservations for flights operated by the airline, yet also made such announcements for Iberia's Level-branded flights which have already restarted.

Evidently, these are uncertain times, and things can change very quickly as they often did. In the meantime, I have noted the retroactive reopening of reservations of OpenSkies-operated Level flights on the Level and OpenSkies articles, updated most of the potentially outdated statements to September, and will revert any of my removals of its flights from airport destination table lists. Though whether OpenSkies will ultimately restart service or be closed for certain, quietly or otherwise remains to be seen.

In the future however, I suggest editing the corresponding airport articles for changes made to a given airport article's services (e.g. editing ORY's article accordingly after editing EWR's article on an ORY service). ChainChomp2 (talk) 16:24, 17 September 2020 (UTC)