Aviation Daily Roundup: April 22

Lufthansa Group is continuing its management realignment prompted by challenges posed during the COVID-19 crisis.

Etihad Airways, which owns 21% of Virgin Australia, has said it was unable to provide further funding to prevent the airline’s entry into administration but remains open to discussions on a possible relaunch.

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Rarely have production-rate changes been so highly anticipated as the expected news from Boeing.

Indian Ocean-based Air Mauritius has been placed into administration as travel restrictions and border closures in all its markets have led to a complete erosion of the company’s revenue base.

China’s Tongcheng Group will merge its airline Air Travel with its travel agency business, taking another step toward reproducing the successful formula of rival Spring Travel.

Boeing is reorganizing top managers and their duties, the company said late April 21, in what is the first headquarters overhaul under relatively new CEO and President David Calhoun.

German regional carrier Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter filed for self-administered insolvency April 22 after it lost its only wet-lease contract with Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings.

Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines plans to reduce its fleet by 20 aircraft, or 25%, from 80 aircraft as a result of travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Italian aircraft-interiors specialist Aviointeriors has unveiled two social-distancing seat designs, aimed at safeguarding against COVID-19 contamination, which could be available within a short time frame.

Several European environmental groups have complained that governments are providing airlines with financial bailouts during the COVID-19 crisis without having them signed up to measures to improve their environmental performance.

Delta Air Lines posted its first quarterly loss since 2014, as the coronavirus crisis battered air travel demand around the world.

Wizz Air expects to enter new markets in Europe and increase the scale of its planned Abu Dhabi venture once travel restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 crisis have been eased, the Hungarian airline’s founder and CEO József Váradi has said.

ZIPAIR Tokyo has filed an application with the U.S. Transportation Department to launch nonstop flights to the U.S. later this year.

Air France-KLM is in advanced negotiations with the French and Dutch governments for state and state-backed loans that would enable the group to face the expected liquidity requirement in the third quarter of this year, according to group executives.