Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways will suspend all passenger flights for 14 days beginning Mar. 25 following a United Arab Emirates (UAE) government directive aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19.
Major aviation training and simulator provider CAE said it is temporarily laying off at least 465 staff starting March 27 and cutting staff manager salaries in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.
The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) director general Andrew Herdman is calling for financial assistance from governments to assist the aviation sector and says the crisis should not be used as an occasion to weed out weaker carriers.
Embraer has placed all employees at sites in Brazil who cannot perform their jobs remotely on temporary paid leave through March 31 because of the virus causing COVID-19, the company said.
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida remained open on March 23 to personnel working on Mars 2020, Commercial Crew and Cargo and other mission-critical programs despite its first confirmed case of the coronavirus COVID-19.
Hawaiian Airlines plans to cut back its international and domestic networks in the wake of a state quarantine directive that will further deflate demand.
Following the closure of borders at home and abroad, Singapore Airlines (SIA) said it will cut 96% of its capacity until the end of April in what it described as the “greatest challenge” SIA group has ever faced.
Airbus is faced with an avalanche of requests for delivery deferrals and is preparing for substantial production cuts as many of its customers struggle with the impact of COVID-19 coronavirus on air transport.