Aviation Daily Roundup: April 2

Boeing is offering a voluntary layoff plan in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis and acknowledges its product portfolio may change—and likely decrease—as the coronavirus pandemic drives a historic halt across aerospace and aviation.

Air New Zealand has cut its domestic capacity by 95% as new COVID-19 restrictions prevent most travel in its local market.

Emirates Airline will restart some passenger services in the coming week, the company’s chairman said April 2.

Lufthansa is in talks with the German government about various forms of financial assistance in the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

The pot of $25 billion in federal workforce grants being doled out to U.S. passenger carriers would provide them enough liquidity to ride out the COVID-19 crisis until year end, a team of Moody’s analysts have concluded.

Welcome to Routes’ weekly look at how the Middle East and African aviation markets are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, helping you understand the schedule changes and manage the impact so we can navigate through this crisis together.

It will be “virtually impossible” for regional airlines to survive the COVID-19 crisis without government support, ExpressJet CEO Subodh Karnik has told Routes.