France has so far lost 100 million passengers and 700,000 flights as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, air traffic management organization Eurocontrol said Oct. 20.
Boeing’s latest 20-year Pilot and Technician Outlook leaves reasons to be hopeful despite the COVID-19 pandemic, say officials at JSfirm.com, which provides an aviation job website.
The heads of IATA and Airlines for America (A4A) painted a sober picture of the state of the airline industry, conceding the COVID-19 crisis is unprecedented for commercial aviation and warning of a potentially slow recovery.
Oneworld carrier Finnair has finalized plans to cut approximately 700 jobs—over 10% of its workforce—in response to the COVID-19 downturn, although this figure is fewer than the 1,000 originally anticipated.
Daily passenger throughput at U.S. airports reached one million people on Oct. 18 for the first time since mid-March, marking a symbolic turning point in the airline industry’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aircraft lessor GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) and California-based investment-management firm PIMCO are partnering on a new aircraft-investment project, which will initially focus on narrowbodies.
There is promising new science on the horizon as NASA’s nimble Osiris-Rex sample return spacecraft prepares for a daring brief encounter on Oct. 20 with its distant target, the primitive asteroid Bennu.
Cathay Pacific predicts that its passenger capacity will still be less than half pre-COVID-19 levels in 2021, even assuming best-case outcomes prevail.
Chinese LCC Spring Airlines will take delivery of up to seven Airbus A320 family aircraft by the end of 2020, increasing its fleet by about 7% as it expands its business by redeploying international capacity to domestic routes.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Flight services provider DroneUp has announced a pilot program with Walmart and Quest Diagnostics to deliver COVID-19 test sample collection kits by drone.
