Coronavirus

The Russian aerospace industry lost two top managers to COVID-19 this week.

Leaders of aerostructures supplier Spirit AeroSystems already are envisioning a dramatically different company as COVID-19 upends commercial air

WASHINGTON—U.S. airlines are struggling to implement consistent aircraft-cleaning processes, with failure to follow key guidance and a variety of

OAG says global capacity has now fallen to 26.6m seats per week vs 109m a year ago; rate of weekly capacity continues to decline, but it does at last

UNITED is making public offering of $2.25b of senior secured notes (secured by first priority security interests in a designated pool of 360 aircraft)

QATAR AIRWAYS plans phased expansion of operations from 30 to 50 destinations by end of May and 80 by end of June.

Rarely are there new ideas in Washington, just new conditions for trying old tricks—and one of the latest is a proposal for the federal government to induce new-aircraft manufacturing in the wake of COVID-19’s devastation throughout aviation.

Three lessors—AerCap, Avolon and Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE)—have released 2020 first quarter (Q1) financial results, revealing the initial impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

TENENCIA (Carlisle Interconnect Technologies) has developed solution to reconfigure passenger cabins for cargo transport with turnkey kit design

BAA TRAINING reopened its flight training base in Kaunas, Lithuania, and resumed Ab Initio flight training operations after COVID-19 distractions.

Qatar Airways plans to more than double the number of destinations it is currently serving by the end of June.

While Hawaiian Airlines plans to delay its Boeing 787 orders due to the COVID-19 crisis, the airline does not expect to have to reduce its current fleet in the medium term.

The Pentagon has awarded 3M a $126 million contract to increase production to 26 million N95 masks per month beginning in October as the novel coronavirus spreads.

As the business aviation sector works to bounce back when COVID-19 travel restrictions begin to lift, in Britain, the industry has a significant additional hurdle to overcome.

CARGO FACTS is reporting that >1,000 passenger aircraft are now in cargo operations; 777s and 787s account for 59%.

AEROLINEAS ARGENTINAS and AUSTRAL are expected to be merged by Argentinan Govt by the end of 2020.

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS lost $163m on $1.1b revenues in 1Q20 vs $163m net income on $2b in 1Q19; it delivered 18 MAX shipsets vs 152 a year ago, and has

SAS secured 3-year, SEK3.3b revolving credit facility that is 90% guaranteed by Swedish and Danish states.

The FAA has named eight companies that will assist the agency in establishing technology requirements for suppliers of remote identification services for small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

Howmet Aerospace, one of the few providers of aerospace forgings, castings and other key aircraft ingredients, still expects to leverage price gains out of embattled aviation OEMs in new long-term agreements (LTAs) even as COVID-19 upends commercial air travel nearer term.

South Africa’s Comair Group, which operates LCC kulula.com and franchise flights for British Airways, has entered business rescue after learning that South African flight groundings may continue until November.

Ask the Editors: The single-aisle market will be severely affected but less so than widebodies.

Eyeing a new era of airport security that promotes touchless screening and healthier travel, U.S. government services giant Leidos has closed its roughly $1 billion acquisition of L3Harris Technologies’ Security Detection and Automation businesses and Leidos leaders see growth potential in a post-coronavirus world.

Greece is to lease Israeli Heron medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air systems to patrol the country’s maritime borders.

Icelandair is planning a new share issuance to boost its liquidity and ensure connectivity to the Northern Atlantic island, while discussions are ongoing regarding a possible government-backed credit line.