Sports travel is shaping up to be the fastest-growing sector in the air charter industry for 2021 because of a packed calendar of scheduled and rescheduled high-profile events, according to Chapman Freeborn, an air charter broker.
The second flight test of the Kratos-built X-61 in July at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, came eight months after the debut flight of the first Gremlin UAS, which validated the operating system but ended in a crash when the recovery parachute failed.
Nearly a quarter of staff at London Gatwick Airport could lose their jobs under a drastic restructuring plan, after COVID-related airline network cuts left the South London airport operating at just 20% of its peak-season capacity.
AirAsia Group Berhad is preparing to rely on its six airlines’ domestic markets for revenue in the remaining months of 2020 after the LCC group had “stabilized” in the second quarter following the outbreak of COVID-19.
Worldwide turboprop utilization in July reached its highest levels so far in 2020, with 85,574 multi-engine flight hours and 61,510 single-engine flight hours, according to Aviation Week Intelligence Network flight tracking data.
Croatia Airlines has been working to renegotiate an order for four Airbus A320neos, but nearly a year’s worth of talks have stalled in light of the COVID-19 crisis.
Virgin Atlantic’s creditors have voted in favor of the UK long-haul carrier’s £1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) restructuring plan, ahead of two key court hearings to finalize the process on Sept. 2 and Sept. 3.
Germany’s air transport association BDL warned returning to mandatory quarantine for passengers flying in from countries defined as high-risk in the current COVID-19 pandemic would cripple the recovery of air transport in the country.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on almost every aspect of the aviation sector, but the coronavirus does not appear to have dented the industry’s determination to drive down CO2 emissions and its desire for operations to be more environmentally responsible.
The continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have forced Indian Ocean carrier Air Austral to extend its suspension of services to most destinations until “at least” Sept. 30.
