Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
Lessor Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has received 53 “rent deferral requests” from its customers, representing around 16% of the company’s annual revenue.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Air Iceland Connect, Icelandair’s regional subsidiary which operates flights within Iceland and to Greenland, is to be integrated into Icelandair.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lee Ann Shay, James Pozzi, Lindsay Bjerregaard
Aviation Week MRO editors discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the aviation aftermarket—and how some schools and companies are adapting. Don

By Karen Walker
Airlines, especially US carriers, are going to have to tread a fine line in asking customers to accept vouchers for future travel instead of refunds
ATW Opinion

By Ben Goldstein
A group of nine U.S. Senators urged U.S. carriers to issue full cash refunds to customers for all flight cancellations made during the COVID-19 crisis.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

VOLARIS, Mexico now plans to cut capacity by 80% in April (vs original schedule) due to COVID-19.
Air Transport

US DOT reports fuel cost for US scheduled airlines was $1.81 per gallon in February vs $1.98 in February 2019.
Air Transport

Patrick Edmond
The eruption of the Indonesian Mount Tambora in 1815 propelled enough volcanic dust into the atmosphere to visibly darken the sun and cool the global climate in the subsequent months, leading 1816 to be described in contemporary accounts as “The Year without a Summer.”
Aircraft & Propulsion

TUI

TUI received German government approval for €1.8b bridging loan from the KfW to increase its financial resources to €3.1b.
Air Transport

PASSUR AEROSPACE responded to request by IATA and developed ITOP Global Contingency Portal (GCP) to provide airlines with real-time sharing of
Air Transport

AVION EXPRESS plans to begin using its A320s and A321s for all-cargo operation, carrying 17 and 24 tonnes respectively.
Air Transport

CLIVE DATA SERVICES says year-over-year air cargo volumes dropped 23% in March.
Air Transport

AMERICAN is now expected to retire 76 older 737-800s, nine A330-300s and 20 E190s, in addition to 51 757s/767s that were previously identified, due to
Air Transport

Patrick Edmond
A virus-driven temporary cut in air traffic is no substitute for lasting emissions-reduction measures, and this is still the time to consider what a sustainable post-COVID-19 airline industry should look like.
Sustainability

By Victoria Moores
UK-headquartered Acro Aircraft Seating has appointed former Collins Aerospace and B/E Aerospace executive Neil Cairns as its new CEO.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Adrian Schofield
Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA) have made further cuts to their summer international schedules as demand continues to fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airlines & Lessors

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s only LCC Pobeda announced Apr. 1 that it will suspend all regular flights until May 31.
Airlines & Lessors

By Tony Osborne
Air navigation service providers (ANSPs), particularly those that are privately owned, are taking tough steps to ensure they can survive the slump in air traffic caused by the coronavirus crisis.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bradley Perrett
Chinese flights are carrying light loads and earning low yields, but the government wants the industry to fly as much as possible.
Airlines & Lessors

By Michael Bruno
Astronics, the already embattled provider of aircraft seat technology and other interior products, is “adjusting its workforce” to align with a dropoff in demand due to the coronavirus and sudden economic slowdown.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Adrian Schofield
Airlines with strong domestic networks before COVID-19 could see a faster rebound than those relying on international connections.
Airlines & Lessors

AIR ICELAND CONNECT has been integrated into ICELANDAIR; however, its AOC will remain separate. It has five Dash 8s.
Air Transport

By Chen Chuanren
In its 2019 annual report, released Mar. 30, China’s largest airline said that despite cutting frequencies internationally and domestically, it has
Airlines & Lessors

AWIN Knowledge Center

By Alan Dron
The liquidators of Air Italy, which collapsed in February, have received several “expressions of interest” in assets of the failed airline.
Airlines & Lessors