China will cut air services to every foreign country to a minimum of one weekly flight per airline, as the country tries to avoid re-importing COVID-19.

The European Commission (EC) has issued updated air cargo guidelines, calling on member states and other countries to help facilitate the operations that play an important role in transporting medical supplies and equipment amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Latin American and Caribbean carriers’ attempts to operate vital cargo services or repatriation flights are being hampered because the region’s governments are not reacting quickly enough to the fast-changing COVID-19 situation, IATA said Mar. 26.

A European Union-funded research project to improve aircraft ice protection is preparing upgraded wind tunnels for testing of a hybrid system capable of detecting icing caused by supercooled large droplets (SLD).

LOT Polish Airlines has announced a raft of flight cancellations after the Polish government extended its commercial flight suspension by a further 14 days to Apr. 11.

The virus that causes COVID-19 has disrupted operations at U.S. airport towers, approach control facilities and en route centers.

U.S. Senators and the Trump Administration reached a preliminary accord that would send U.S. carriers $61 billion in grants and loans to survive an extended period of anemic air travel demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.  

The UK government has effectively told the country’s airlines they must exhaust all avenues to shore up their cash reserves and protect their liquidity before turning to the country’s treasury for assistance.