Icelandair Group has appointed three financial advisors to strengthen the company’s long-term capital, after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the airline to cut its flight schedule to just 10% of normal operations.
Howmet Aerospace, formerly the aviation and defense-focused assets under the Arconic brand, said April 6 it will work to save about $100 million in costs as its OEM customers halt production of large commercial aircraft due to COVID-19 fallout.
Lufthansa decided April 7 to make deep cuts to its future fleet, repositioning it to becoming an airline around 20% smaller than before the coronavirus pandemic crisis.
Alaska Airlines plans to maintain flights to all points it currently serves in Alaska as well as bringing forward the launch of seasonal routes to Dillingham (DLG) and King Salmon (AKN) after the demise of RavnAir Alaska.
The government of Latvia has tentatively approved a €36.1 million ($39 million) treasury loan for Riga-based airBaltic and could make further funds available if the COVID-19 crisis continues.
Israel’s Ministry of Finance has rejected El Al Israeli Airlines’ request for a $350 million state loan to sustain it through the COVID-19 global crisis.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s updated guidance on aviation-specific loans available via the $2 trillion stimulus package indicated that applications will start being accepted soon but leaves several large questions about the $46 billion program unanswered.
Turkish Airlines has canceled all remaining domestic flights, which means the carrier has no scheduled passenger flights until April 20, according to CEO Bilal Eksi.
Eurocontrol’s member states have agreed to let private jet operators and airlines defer the payment of up to €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) in air traffic control fees in the coming months.
Eurocontrol’s member states have agreed to let airlines defer the payment of up to €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) in air traffic control (ATC) fees in the coming months.
Discovered on Dec. 28, 2019, the puffy greenish Comet Atlas C/2019 Y4 rapidly brightened in the northern night sky near the Big Dipper as it raced toward the Sun.
The first aircraft carrier equipped to embark an F-35C, the USS Carl Vinson, completed its 14-month maintenance period at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (IMF) in Washington state, a hot spot for the novel coronavirus.
President Donald Trump on April 6 signed a new national space policy directive reaffirming U.S. commitment to the commercial use of resources in space and encouraging international support for the policy.
IATA plans to hold a series of regional meetings with governments and other stakeholders to determine under what conditions air traffic can be resumed once the coronavirus crisis is under better control.
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has joined a chorus of Democrats calling for the removal of Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly over remarks to sailors on the coronavirus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt that referred to the fired captain of that aircraft carrier as “naive or stupid.”
The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) has extended the temporary ban on all international flights to the country from April 6 to April 18 as part of efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
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The Malaysian Aviation Commission (MAVCOM) is urging aviation stakeholders to only seek financial help from Malaysia’s government “as a last resort” with fiscal resources stretched amid the COVID-19 crisis.
