Porter Airlines has once again pushed back its planned operational restart, this time to Nov. 12, as travel restrictions continue to cripple Canada-U.S. travel demand as well as Canadian domestic services.
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.
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.
