The airlines closest to bankruptcy are …

« Bloomberg, the US financial group specialising in economic information, has just published a note on the eight airlines most exposed to the risk of financial collapse. In other words, those that are most likely to fail because of their poor balance sheets. Bloomberg uses the Z-scor system, developed by economist Edwaard Altman, a multivariate formula for measuring a company’s financial health (reliability between 72% and 80%).

« The situation in all these countries has a common denominator, » explains the report: « the inability or even indifference of governments to come to the rescue of their carriers, all of which are more or less affected by the paralysis due to the virus.