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Governments across Europe must coordinate their response to preserve the continent’s single market and its benefits, two airline associations have urged.

GOL says it plans to resume growth after COVID-19 crisis passes.

The Panama-based carrier will reduce capacity by at least 80%.

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

More international carriers are making sweeping capacity reductions.

The LCC reports falling load factors nearing 50% as a result of COVID-19-fueled demand decline.

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, US president says: “We’ve told the airlines we’re going to help them.”

The three global airline alliances—oneworld, SkyTeam and Star Alliance—have jointly called on governments around the world to “evaluate all possible means” to support the industry amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.

Ryanair expects “the majority” of its fleet will be grounded while Finnair and SAS are among the latest airlines to stop almost all flights. Air France is also grounding its entire Airbus A380 fleet and KLM its entire Boeing 747 fleet.

Local services account for 88% of the carrier’s passengers and the airline said demand is rising on some of its domestic routes.

US Department of Transportation rejection puts the planned partnership in doubt.

Demand for long-haul travel grounds to a near halt.

Australia’s main international gateways are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

Rwanda’s government recently agreed to sell a 49% stake in national carrier Rwandair to help boost connectivity to the Central African country.

This week: Etihad Airways is launching a new service to Vienna; leisure carrier Condor is introducing long-haul flights from Dusseldorf; and Eastern Airways is once again operating its own scheduled network of routes.

The LCC continues to seek out new routes despite the 737 grounding and COVID-19 pandemic.

Passenger figures for February show how COVID-19 is affecting the country.

Airlines are being tasked with helping enforce President Donald Trump’s new policy.

Asunción, the capital and largest city of Paraguay, is the country’s main gateway with LATAM Airlines Group the largest airline in the market.

Singapore Changi Airport reports dramatic drops in passenger numbers.

Abu Dhabi airline is confident China demand will recover by summer.

Carriers on both sides of the Atlantic are assessing the potential impact of the temporary travel restrictions to the US from more than two-dozen European countries in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.

Kuwait Airways and Jazeera Airways, both based at KWI, will be affected most.

Fifteen airports and five destinations have been shortlisted in this year’s Routes Europe Awards.

The launch of JC International Airlines, Lanmei Airlines and Cambodia Airways in recent years is fuelling rapid growth of the country’s aviation market.