Air Transport

IBERIA and VUELING secured syndicated 5-year loans for €750m and €260m respectively; banks involved will ask the Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO) to

UNITED AIRLINES lost $1.7b in 1Q20 (vs $292m net income in 1Q19) on 17% lower revenues. Its total liquidity on April 29 was approximately $9.6b

IATA and UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION warned air capacity for postal services is insufficient and urged governments to support movement of mail by air.

Bill Finn to Chief Risk Officer of Amedeo, Dublin, Ireland.

Daniel Perez to Chief Operating Officer of Amedeo, Dublin, Ireland.

Peter Marwood as Head of Legal and Commercial Contracts of Amedeo, Dublin, Ireland.

Gabriella Lapidus to Chief Commercial Officer of Amedeo, Dublin, Ireland.

GOL lost R$2.3b in 1Q20 (vs R$35.2m net income in 1Q19) on 2% lower revenues. It has R$4.2b liquidity, which was strenthened via several measures

Paul Kent to Chief Commercial Officer-Europe, Americas and Africa, based in London, of BOC Aviation (effective June 1).

ACI says year-over-year pax traffic declined 10.7% in February; cargo fell 0.5%.

Norwegian Air Shuttle has won shareholder approval to convert a large slab of debt to equity, a result that makes the ULCC eligible to receive more financial aid from the Norwegian government.

FRANKFURT—Airbus plans to increase its research into how health-protection technology inside passenger aircraft cabins can be improved, the OEM’s executive vice president of engineering Jean-Brice Dumont told Aviation Week.

Welcome to Routes’ look at how the North American aviation market is responding to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, helping you understand the schedule changes and manage the impact so we can navigate through this crisis together.

The European Commission has approved the French state’s €7 billion ($7.7 billion) package to help Air France-KLM withstand the COVID-19 crisis, saying the plans comply with EU state aid rules and praising the decision to link the funding to environmental targets.

SINGAPORE—The governments of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea are developing guidelines for the resumption of “essential” air travel as well as maintaining smooth and open supply chains with each other.

It is time for the government, airlines, leasing companies, financiers, OEMs and suppliers to join forces.

The Thai State Enterprise Policy Committee (SEPC) has approved a THB58 billion ($1.8 billion) loan for Thai Airways as the debt laden flag-carrier grapples with prolonged travel disruption from the COVID-19 outbreak.

KLM began gradual restoration of its European network with daily E-Jet flights to Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Milan, Budapest, Prague, Warsaw and

Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, Turkish Airlines has taken the decision to temporarily cancel flights to various cities in China, as well as Italy, South Korea and Iraq, which have seen outbreaks of the virus.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic data for January 2020 showing that demand (measured in total revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) climbed 2.4% compared to January 2019.

A Pegasus Airlines flight from Izmir to Istanbul skidded off the runway this afternoon at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport crashing into a road and breaking into three pieces, Turkish media has reported.

The first day of the CAPA Qatar Aviation, Aeropolitical and Regulatory Summit has kicked off on Wednesday 5 February at the Sheraton Hotel in Doha, Qatar.

Qatar Airways is in talks to acquire a 49% stake in state-owned RwandAir.