A group of 13 U.S. Senate Democrats accused Delta Air Lines and JetBlue Airways of exploiting a workaround to the CARES Act’s prohibition on employee pay cuts by reducing hours in lieu of pay rates.

RavnAir Alaska, a regional carrier that before the COVID-19 crisis had provided connectivity throughout the state of Alaska prior to shutting down in April, appears to have a way forward that will allow it to resume operations this summer.

Ecuador’s flag-carrier TAME is to be liquidated as part of a series of measures the country is taking to rebalance the economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Among its many financial ravages, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has exposed the vulnerability of fee-based business models for providing air traffic services. 

Alcohol wipes have been identified as a possible cause of wires shorting out on aircraft, causing at least one in-flight smoke event, a NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) report reveals.

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NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission team is relaxing previous plans to descend to the surface of its target, called Bennu, to gather surface pebbles and soil for return to Earth, in part due to work constraints imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines has taken the next steps to receive €767 million ($833 million) in financial assistance from the state to survive the COVID-19 crisis.