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. 

When traffic starts to grow again, Europe’s system of hubs and secondary airports may evolve.

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.

The first half of 2020 was an economic catastrophe for the business aviation sector, for air transport in general and for most of the world as well.

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.

A U.S. Air Force F-35A crash-landed at Eglin AFB, Florida, on May 19, four days after the loss of an F-22 at the same location.