Coronavirus

With more than three months to go before opening day, the National Business Aviation Association plans to provide an update in early July on the NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition, the world’s largest business aviation show.

EU member states are finalizing a list of countries from which inbound travel will continue to be banned once the region’s borders reopen July 1, using criteria including the health situations in those countries.

IATA is urging governments to replace travel quarantines with multi-step processes that would mitigate the risk of a COVID-19 infected passenger boarding a flight and reduce the chance of any infected person transmitting the disease.

The Indian government has signaled it is willing to discuss establishing bilateral corridors with some countries to facilitate repatriation flights and essential travel.

Early evidence suggests many passengers are not disciplined in following new rules and airlines are not enforcing guidelines enough.

Switzerland’s Kopter Group has resumed flight-test activities in Sicily after a three-month hiatus caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic.

SUNEXPRESS plans to bundle its traffic into single AOC and focus on holiday flights from the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) to Turkey and

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS was directed by Boeing to reduce its 737 (MAX/P-8) production plan for 2020 from 125 to 72 shipsets, comprising 37 shipsets to be

AVIATION CAPITAL GROUP closed 3-year, $600m unsecured revolving line of credit with its parent company Tokyo Century.

TSA screened 607,540 individuals at US airports on June 22; it was first day of >600,000 pax for first time since March 19.

US DOT reports year-over-year US international air cargo traffic fell 21% in April; US-Europe cargo traffic dropped 43.8%.

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About 250 Textron Aviation employees received 60-day layoff notices June 23, including 70 in Wichita, as the company adjusts to the economic uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company told employees.

PARIS—French airlines have warned that after months of COVID-19-related shutdown, the gradual recovery of the air transport sector may prove fatal for some carriers.

Be The Match, a not-for-profit operated by the National Marrow Donor Program, has a particular shortage of volunteer pilots to fly donors or bone marrow and their couriers in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain regions of the U.S. and between Canada and the U.S.

A team of U.S. university researchers have warned that airlines seeking to minimize COVID-19 transmission risk by boarding from the rear of the

Ask the Editors: Airbus is focusing on extending the A220’s longer routes while Embraer struggles with bundling and pricing for the E2.

AUSTRIAN plans in July to deploy 36 aircraft (about 50% of fleet), including three 767s (to serve Bangkok, Chicago, New York and Washington), A319s

VIRGIN ATLANTIC plans to resume service to 17 additional cities from August 2020 on top of initial restart from July 20-21.

AIR CANADA closed two financing transactions, netting C$1.23b, and has now raised C$5.5b since start of COVID-19 in 1Q20.

KOPTER GROUP (Leonardo), Italy has resumed flight testing at Pozzallo, Sicily of third prototype of SH09 single-engine helicopter, which was suspended

TRU (Textron) is suspending production of commercial air transport simulators and ceasing manufacturing in Montreal. It will continue to support

The virus crisis is putting airlines, MROs and OEMs through a brutal shakeout, from which it is uncertain that many carriers and aftermarket companies

Airbus’ hybrid-electric technology and hydrogen power could pave the way for a greener replacement to its bestselling Ecureuil platform.

Boeing has told its primary 737 supplier Spirit AeroSystems to produce only 72 shipsets this year.