The FAA has taken the next steps in standing up grant programs to help aspiring pilots, engineers and aviation maintenance technicians, outlining plans to begin collecting applications for the first round of grants in November.

While many airlines around the world are waiting anxiously for international borders to reopen, the immediate concern for Australian carriers is closer to home.

TAP Air Portugal has accessed €499 million ($590 million) from an EU-approved financing agreement with the Portuguese government.

The European Commission (EC) is hoping to rollout a simple color-coded map showing risk levels to overcome the current patchwork of COVID-19 travel restrictions and better-inform the traveling public. 

France will focus on investing in hydrogen technology as part of a broader post-COVID-19 economic relaunch plan with the government planning to have a hydrogen-powered aircraft ready for 2035. 

UK aerospace and trade association ADS is again warning of the dangers of a no-deal Brexit after it emerged that the British government plans to renege on elements of the Withdrawal Agreement it previously struck with the EU.

AirAsia is hoping to raise MYR2.5 billion ($602 million) by the end of the year while the fate of its Japanese operation is unclear after it was put under review.

Ask the Editors: Given current high production rates, it is unlikely there will be a shortage of widebody capacity.