The Pentagon could help the U.S. government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic through logistics and planning support, a DOD spokesman said.

Brussels Airlines has stressed that “all its efforts” will go into resuming operations on April 20.

Cathay Pacific is preparing to operate a “skeleton” passenger flight schedule for April, reducing capacity around 90% after travel demand plummeted. 

Increasingly strict border and quarantine requirements are curtailing international air travel across Asia as governments across the continent ramp up their response to the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis.

As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, Airbus has decided to “temporarily pause production” at its French and Spanish sites for four days, starting Mar. 17.

IATA expects the global airline industry to need $150-200 billion in various forms of government financial assistance to survive the current COVID-19 crisis, the association’s director general and CEO Alexandre de Juniac said Mar. 17. 

LCC Cebu Pacific (CEB) and Philippine Airlines (PAL) will suspend flights as quarantine measures are ramped up across the Philippines following the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.

More international carriers are making sweeping capacity reductions.