A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on April 22 to deliver a seventh batch of the company’s Starlink communications satellites into low Earth orbit.
Military secrecy—not poor U.S. Air Force planning—is behind the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) critical assessment of the acquisition strategy for the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said on April 20.
Italian aircraft-interiors specialist Aviointeriors has unveiled two social-distancing seat designs, aimed at safeguarding against COVID-19 contamination, which could be available within a short time frame.
Wizz Air expects to enter new markets in Europe and increase the scale of its planned Abu Dhabi venture once travel restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 crisis have been eased, the Hungarian airline’s founder and CEO József Váradi has said.
Customers are still taking delivery of the business jets they have ordered, but new sales have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and will take time to recover, according to the head of Brazilian manufacturer Embraer’s private jet business.
Indian Ocean-based Air Mauritius has been placed into administration as travel restrictions and border closures in all its markets have led to a complete erosion of the company’s revenue base.
When life gives you lemons, the adage goes. And when the planned kickoff of the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, was canceled because of COVID-19, the service decided to make lemonade, turning the launch into a five-day virtual event.
Italy’s Piaggio Aero Industries and Piaggio Aviation have again extended the deadline for parties to submit expressions of interest to purchase the businesses, which have been operating under extraordinary administration under the Piaggio Aerospace brand.
Several European environmental groups have complained that governments are providing airlines with financial bailouts during the COVID-19 pandemic without having them signed up to measures to improve their environmental performance.
Etihad Airways, which owns 21% of Virgin Australia, has said it was unable to provide further funding to prevent the airline’s entry into administration but remains open to discussions on a possible relaunch.
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Boeing is reorganizing top managers and their duties, the company said late April 21, in what is the first headquarters overhaul under relatively new CEO and president David Calhoun.
