Aviation Daily Roundup: October 14

Greek regional airline Sky Express has placed a firm order for four Airbus A320neos as the carrier prepares to expand into the international market.

Air traffic controllers (ATCs) are participating in a general strike in Greece expected to last for 24 hrs. over Oct. 15-16.

UK transport secretary Grant Shapps has said uncertainty still remains over the future legal framework for UK-EU flights, as the UK nears the end of its Brexit transition period.

Nigeria has ratified four bilateral air service agreements (BASAs)—with India, Morocco, Rwanda and the U.S.—and is pressing ahead with plans for a new cargo airport in the southeast of the country.

Two representative unions have signed agreements with Airbus’ management team, marking significant progress in an effort to avoid forced layoffs at the OEM’s commercial aircraft business in France.

As Boeing’s second century is recorded, historians will debate whether the company suffered hubris or at times was just overconfident.

Southwest Airlines’ pilots are not pleased with CEO Gary Kelly’s proposed plan to avoid furloughs in 2021 in exchange for a 10% companywide pay cut.

The scale of the COVID-19 epidemic on the UK’s air traffic has been laid out in a report by Eurocontrol, the European air traffic control organization.

WestJet, citing a lack of demand exacerbated by a local travel bubble, will suspend fights to Charlottetown, Fredericton, Moncton, and Sydney, effective Nov. 2, wiping out 100 weekly flights and 80% of the airline’s capacity in Canada’s Atlantic region.

ATR is pursuing hydrogen propulsion as the most feasible path to substantially reducing the carbon emissions of its regional aircraft.