Routes speaks to Morten Mortensen, director of airline sales and route development at Copenhagen Airport (CPH).

Administrators in charge of South Africa’s Comair believe there are “reasonable prospects” of saving the company. Routes looks at the airline group’s place in the market prior to the appointment of business rescue practitioners.

Welcome to Routes’ weekly look at how Europe's aviation market is responding to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, helping you understand the schedule changes and manage the impact so we can navigate through this crisis together.

Routes' weekly update on how airlines and airports across Europe are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Betting on a speedy recovery of its aviation sector, Vietnam is said to be going ahead with a VND11 trillion ($472 million) project to build a third terminal (T3) at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN). 

Russia’s largest airline operator, Aeroflot Group, has become the first beneficiary of financial aid from the government to help withstand the economic consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown. 

Among major trends COVID-19 is expected to spur in A&D manufacturing is the big will gobble up others or take back more work.

Ethiopian Airlines is Africa‘s largest carrier and has been through many crises in its 75-year history, including the 2019 crash of one of its Boeing 737 MAXs. Tewolde Gebremariam describes how the airline is facing the global COVID-19 pandemic.