Coronavirus

VIRGIN AUSTRALIA entered voluntary administration in order to recapitalize business and will work with workers, suppliers and partners to emerge as
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
By mid-April, a White House-sponsored airlift to deliver urgently needed medical supplies to combat the COVID-19 pandemic had completed 45 flights.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bradley Perrett
A Japanese choice of U.S. partners for development of the Next Generation Fighter has been reported by a second major Japanese newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun, following an article along similar lines last month.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Adrian Schofield
All Nippon Airways (ANA) Holdings has significantly cut its estimated profit for its fiscal year that ended March 31, attributable to a decrease in revenue linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Icelandair Group is to issue new shares and press ahead with union and supplier negotiations as part of its financial restructuring triggered by the COVID-19 outbreak.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
The South Korean finance ministry has reiterated that spending shifts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic will not delay deliveries of Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightnings to the country.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Victoria Moores
Emirates' latest COVID-19 safety measures give a shocking glimpse of what post-lockdown travel could look like, with ground and cabin crew wearing full protective clothing and a ban on large items of hand luggage.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
The Securities Investors Association (Singapore) (SIAS) has submitted a list of queries to the board of Singapore Airlines (SIA) prior to the carrier’s emergency general meeting (EGM) on the S$15 billion ($10.5 billion) cash call proposal to raise funds for the airline amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
Taiwan’s China Airlines has come to an agreement with its union to begin salary cuts for all employees starting from May 1 as its interim Q1 figures show revenue dipping amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Airlines & Lessors

By Linda Blachly
How the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry will fare in the aftermath of the COVID-19 impact on commercial aviation is far from clear. But most
Sustainability

By David Casey
As airlines and airports around the world respond to the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, Routes looks at the current state of the global aviation market.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
Welcome to Routes’ weekly look at how the Middle East and African aviation markets are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, helping you understand the schedule changes and manage the impact so we can navigate through this crisis together.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
The airline will continue to serve Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Moores
The European Commission has approved a Danish state guarantee of up to €137 million ($149 million) for Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), ruling that the funding is in line with EU state-aid rules.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Virgin Australia has entered voluntary administration and the airline’s management is proposing to keep as much of the airline intact as possible when it reemerges under a new ownership structure.
Airlines & Lessors

By Michael Bruno
Practically everyone in commercial aerospace is scrambling to figure out how deep, and how long, COVID-19 will affect industry. Two longtime aerospace experts from consultancy Roland Berger, Manfred Hader and Robert Thomson, join Aviation Week senior business editor Michael Bruno on Check 6 to discuss what may occur.
Air Transport

By William Garvey
As one of the solons correctly noted, “A time of crisis is a time for innovation.” Well, this is that time,
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
Space-based ADS-B provides another way to measure the status of commercial aviation.
Airlines & Lessors

By Michael Bruno
The coming weeks and months will be full of big announcements about business changes. Here are three factors affecting A&D supply chains.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

With so much going on within the aviation sector we want to know your views on the key topics and stories.
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By Guy Norris
As the airframers go, so goes the aircraft engine industry.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) granted Hawaiian Airlines a waiver to temporarily cease flying to eight mainland markets, agreeing that travel restrictions imposed by Hawaii’s governor make most service to the mainland unfeasible.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
Porter Airlines, joining its larger Canadian rivals, will tap the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program to bring some staff back to the payroll
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick, Chen Chuanren
Haeco Cabin Solutions, responding to a surge in cargo demand as passenger-aircraft belly capacity has been reduced during the coronavirus pandemic, is fast-tracking development of several products designed for carrying freight in passenger cabins.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Norwegian Air Shuttle said its pilot and cabin crew subsidiaries in Sweden and Denmark were filing for bankruptcy, in the latest casualty of the COVID-19 crisis.
Airlines & Lessors