Air Transport

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) urged governments in Africa and the Middle East (AME) to implement alternatives to quarantine on arrival that would allow economies to re-start while avoiding the importation of COVID-19 cases.

This webinar took place July 2, 2020 Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, the airlines formulating Alaska Air Group, have been addressing the challenges

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Unstable approach set up fatal accident as pilots did not act on multiple cues.

United Airlines will add close to 25,000 flights in August, as it cautiously restores capacity in response to steadily increasing domestic travel demand.

AIR TRANSAT, Canada took delivery of new GTF-powered A321LR (9419) on lease from AerCap.

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BBAM mandated Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group to provide financing for three A321-200s and one 737-900ER leased to Delta.

WASHINGTON—A U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report on the Boeing 737 MAX’s certification underscores the inadequacy of communication between Boeing and the FAA that helped set the stage for two fatal accidents and the model’s ongoing grounding.

These corridors are a key feature of the agency’s first concept of operations, ConOps 1.0, for urban air mobility.

LONDON—Ryanair’s UK pilots have reached an agreement with the airline that will avert most of the 330 threatened job losses.

BLACKROCK, NY acquired 5.5m preferred shares of GOL, Brazil, increasing it ownership to 5.25% of the total preferred shares.

AMERICAN is reducing planned long-haul international capacity for winter 2020-summer 2021 to be about 25% vs 2019.

VIVA AEROBUS, Mexico took delivery of its first 240-pax A321neo (9487) with GTFs; it has 42 more on order.

Andrew Hoad, Mike Humphreys and Paul Nolan were appointed Non-Executive Directors of Aerfin, UK.

A huge hole in airline efforts to reassure passengers and crews that flying is safe was exposed this week during a US Senate hearing on the pandemic

EASYJET has begun process to close bases at Stansted, Southend and Newcastle, according to news reports out of UK.

Annual airshows in Farnborough or Paris have been a staple of the aerospace industry for generations.

LONDON—UK-based lessor and asset management specialist Falko Regional Aircraft will add 11 Bombardier CRJ900 regional jets to its portfolio in a sale and leaseback deal with Delta Air Lines.

LYON, France—Airbus’ announcement June 30 that it would cut 15,000 positions in response to the current crisis has caused an uproar in France, where 5,000 cuts are planned.

Aeromexico became the latest Latin American airline to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S., as the region’s carriers struggle to remain solvent in in the absence of federal government support.

Lufthansa has teamed up with two medical companies to offer COVID-19 testing at its Frankfurt and Munich hubs, which may avoid 14-day quarantine

IATA reports year-over-year global pax traffic decreased 91.3% in May on 86% lower capacity; cargo traffic fell 20.3%.