Coronavirus

CROATIA AIRLINES received EC approval for €11.7m state aid package for damage caused by COVID-19 pandemic.

AIRE (Aircraft Interior Refurbishment España) was selected by Cebu Pacific to convert cabins of two A330s to carry cargo.

Airlines and airports have renewed their calls for an end to quarantine and other travel restrictions in Europe, backed up new EASA guidelines declaring the current methods as “not recommended.”

WESTJET agreed to sell its nine 737 MAX 8s (delivered 2017-2019) to CDB Aviation for leaseback; first eight are complete.

AAPA estimates year-over-year member RPKs dropped 95.2% in October on 87.3% lower ASKs; enplanements fell 95.1%.

JETBLUE AIRWAYS priced underwritten public offering of 36.5m shares of its common stock at $14.40 per share.

AVIATION WEEK NETWORK projects $52b will be spent on heavy airframe maintenance over next 10 years at 1.3% CAGR.

Europe has failed in its approach to tackling the COVID-19 crisis and should completely rethink its strategy on aviation, the CEO of Budapest, Hungary-based Wizz Air said.

Network airlines with efficient hub structures will be central to the aviation industry’s recovery and lead the rebuild of long-haul traffic, according to KLM CEO Pieter Elbers.

Vietnamese prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s government on Dec. 1 ordered the temporary suspension of international flights to and from Vietnam, a day after the first community COVID-19 case was reported.

Australia’s aviation market has been deeply affected by the coronavirus pandemic, but there is a strong hope that there will be a resumption of air movements in its domestic market before Christmas

The pandemic panic is mostly over in some parts of the world as 2020’s end nears, while in others COVID-19 is rampaging or resurging.

Airlines in Southeast are seeing different fates as their respective governments grapple with various stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

China Express Airlines boosted scheduled capacity by more than 3 million seats in the third quarter compared to the year-ago number.

Routes in Asia and Russia had the greatest nonstop two-way capacity in the third quarter.

Troubled long-haul LCC Norwegian Air Shuttle will seek a five-month protection period for restructuring at a Dec. 7 court hearing as part of the examinership proceedings it initiated in November.

US TSA screened 1.18m passengers on Sunday, November 29 (largest single day since March), down 60% from a year ago.

BOMBARDIER and ALSTOM announced receipt of all regulatory approvals required for previously announced sale of Bombardier Transportation to Alstom

SKYSERVICE, Canada says it sold record seven light jet/turboprop business aircraft over past 12 weeks; it is HondaJet dealer.

HONEYWELL introduced fourth-generation Combined Hydrocarbon Ozone Catalyst (CHOC4) to remove VOCs that can cause "smell-in-cabin" events.

Heathrow Airport (LHR) is compiling a report into the effectiveness of COVID-19 pre-departure testing systems now being trialed by several airlines.

FLIGHTAWARE reports US commercial airlines averaged 16,622 flights per day during Thanksgiving week (Tuesday, November 24-Sunday, November 29), which

CONDOR has concluded its restructuring process as part of the protective shielding proceedings and pronounced itself as a healthy company.

As some hubs in the U.S. lose a certain level of panache during the COVID 19 crisis, Panama’s Copa Airlines believes its long-standing “Hub of the Americas” will become even more strategic in a post pandemic world.

American Airlines chairman and CEO Doug Parker believes the US industry is in “good condition for riding out the crisis.”