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TAP Air Portugal has accessed €499 million ($590 million) from an EU-approved financing agreement with the Portuguese government.

The European Commission (EC) is hoping to rollout a simple color-coded map showing risk levels to overcome the current patchwork of COVID-19 travel restrictions and better-inform the traveling public.

France will focus on investing in hydrogen technology as part of a broader post-COVID-19 economic relaunch plan with the government planning to have a hydrogen-powered aircraft ready for 2035.

AirAsia is hoping to raise MYR2.5 billion ($602 million) by the end of the year while the fate of its Japanese operation is unclear after it was put under review.

At the official opening of the final week of the Virtual World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2020 yesterday, International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Secretary General Dr Fang Liu said that information and communications technologies are critical to aviation’s role in global UN Sustainable Development Goal attainment and to how air transport will build back better post-COVID-19.

UK logistics company Stobart Group has confirmed that it is in early talks to sell regional airline Stobart Air and aircraft-leasing business Propius, with lessor Falko Regional Aircraft among those showing an interest.

Several modifications still undefined as regulators finalize requirements for 737 MAX return to service.

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Brussels Airlines has had to scale back its plans to restore flights in the light of Europe’s stuttering recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two major UAE carriers announced diverging approaches to the future of staff salaries Sept. 6.

The Icelandic parliament has agreed to guarantee up to 90% of a $120 million credit facility for Icelandair to help the airline weather the COVID-19 crisis.

The European Commission has approved a €199 million ($236 million) grant from the Italian government to Alitalia, aimed at offsetting losses caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, although two earlier state-aid investigations are continuing.

Jordan has always been a tough location in which to operate. One young airline fighting to make its mark in the local market is Fly Jordan Airlines.

Ghanaian carrier, Africa World Airlines, is looking to consolidate Accra as a regional hub for west Africa once the Covid-19 crisis has abated.

Etihad Airways has entered a codeshare agreement with Abu Dhabi’s first low-cost airline, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi.

CemAir has welcomed 80 South Africans home from Iraq and Jordan on a special repatriation flight which touched down at OR Tambo International Airport on Wednesday morning.

Reopening borders will be the key to international recovery, but most countries are reluctant and criteria are uneven, airline CEOs say.

As reported by Arabian Aerospace at the weekend, Dubai's hybrid carrier Flydubai has begun its process of redundancies.

After “losing family members” last week in the shape of new hires and pilots underway in training or type rating conversions, Emirates has held the first wave of mass redundancies today.

The AACO 53rd AGM due to be held in Beirut on 28-30 October 2020 will now be behind closed doors.

Qatar Airways has announced it is currently the largest passenger airline, and the largest cargo airline in the world as well its airport hub, Hamad International Airport, being named the third best airport in the world.

Air Lease Corporation chairman Steven Udvar Házy is encouraging Boeing to publicly refer to the 737 MAX by its more formal numerical designations, such as the 737-8 and 737-9, calling the name “MAX” a “clear liability.”