Coronavirus

BOEING flew a Dreamlifter from Hong Kong to Greenville, SC in partnership with Prisma Health, Atlas Air and Discommon (importer of record for the

AVIATIONMANUALS published White Paper offering guidance for properly updating FBO Operations Manuals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

AIRBALTIC modified its 5-year Destination 2025 CLEAN business plan by incorporating impact of COVID-19 crisis; new plan foresees reduced fleet for

DELTA CARGO received FAA approval to utilize overhead bin space of widebody aircraft to carry cargo; it is studying possibility of removing seats.

Virgin Group founder Richard Branson has rejected media reports that he plans to sell UK long-haul carrier Virgin Atlantic, but the search for further investment continues.

While demand for business and military MRO remains strong, commercial and component MRO are seeing major disruptions.

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury gave a dramatic warning to employees that heralds potentially deeper production cuts than initially planned.

The British government has approved trials to use a fixed-wing UAV to fly medical supplies from the UK mainland to the Isle of Wight.

The Dutch government plans to provide €2-4 billion ($2.2-4.4 billion) in COVID-19 crisis-related financial assistance to KLM, following on France’s pledged €7 billion to help Air France and the Air France-KLM group.

Norwegian Air Shuttle said it expects to remain grounded until April 2021 as it set out a debt-for-equity conversion plan to avoid running out of cash by mid-May.

MOSCOW—Irkut Corporation has resumed the flight trials of its new MC-21 narrowbody aircraft in Zhukovsky, near Moscow. The flights were suspended on

Welcome to Routes’ look at how the North American aviation market is responding to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, helping you understand the schedule changes and manage the impact so we can navigate through this crisis together.

Wizz Air will restart operations from its Vienna base May 1 and is emerging from the crisis as a “structural winner,” according to the Central and Eastern European ULCC’s deputy CEO.

A growing number of airlines are asking for payment deferrals in an effort to preserve liquidity.

LONDON—Smaller European regional carriers that have government participation or serve niche markets are the airlines most likely to emerge from the

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New LCC Air Arabia Abu Dhabi (AAAD), received its Air Operating Certificate (AOC) from the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) April 23, allowing it to start operating from the UAE capital.

Mexico City-based ULCC Volaris will cut capacity by 90% in May, as it braces for the COVID-19 pandemic to peak across Latin America in the coming weeks.

Getting the spacecraft and technicians to the Tanegashima Space Center for launch preparations was extra challenging due to travel quarantines, workplace shutdowns and health issues stemming from COVID-19.

The French state will grant Air France-KLM a total of €7 billion ($7.6 billion) in loans to help it weather the COVID-19 crisis, and longer-term may consider increasing its stake, the Franco-Dutch airline group said April 24.

Aeromexico plans to slash its capacity by 80% in the 2020 second quarter (Q2) while working to convince Mexico’s government of the country’s airlines’ need for financial aid as credit markets tighten during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The world’s largest defense contractor has issued another round of accelerated progress payments to its supply chain.

Certificated repair stations located on airports are among the U.S. aviation contractors eligible for payroll support established by the COVID-19 pandemic relief act, the U.S. Treasury confirmed, but the department has not weighed in on off-airport shops.

Western Australia’s Perth Airport (PER) has seized some of Virgin Australia’s parked aircraft to ensure that the airline can pay money owed to the airport.

The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) wants the federal government to require passengers and crew members wear masks at all times while in airports and onboard aircraft.