Air Transport

DELTA CARGO is launching charter service for transporting goods (packages to pallets) from 13 US airports to >70 available international destination

India has dramatically tightened its restrictions for international travelers, including a ban on entry from European nations.

Following increased government travel restrictions and massive drop in demand because of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 virus, Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines and Ryanair subsidiary Laudamotion have decided to suspend all operations from Vienna this week.

A recommended fuel-coupling modification to reduce electrostatic charge risk on Airbus A220s is being mandated by regulators, with EASA adopting an airworthiness directive (AD) issued by Transport Canada (TC).

Air New Zealand intends to reduce its workforce by up to 30% in response to network cuts caused by the COVID-19 crisis.

Korean Air has begun using grounded Airbus A330 passenger aircraft for some cargo-only flights and intends to extend this initiative to more destinations.

Italy plans to nationalize Alitalia in a bid to save the already-bankrupt airline as part of a €25 billion ($27.8 billion) economic support package aimed at helping the country recover from the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis, Italian media reported.

SWISS says it is grounding about half of its fleet and taking further precautionary action to safeguard liquidity and revenues over the coming months

FINNAIR is cutting capacity by 90% and will temporarily operate only 20 routes; it expects substantial loss in 2020.

INTL AIRLINES GROUP plans to reduce capacity by 75% in April/May and announced suspension of planned executive changes at IAG (Willie Walsh will

EASYJET is undertaking significant cancellations and is parking a majority of its A320 Family aircraft.

U.S. airlines stripped their international schedules to skeletal levels over the weekend, parking their widebody fleets and signaling difficult decisions ahead over reining in labor costs.

AIR FRANCE-KLM GROUP is cutting capacity by 70-90% and as a result, Air France will ground its entire A380 fleet and KLM its entire 747 fleet. It has

AMERICAN is reducing international capacity by 75%; it is projecting 20-30% drop in domestic capacity in April/May.

ETIHAD AIRWAYS has suspended service to several cities and reduced frequencies to others; it says future changes to the route network may occur due to

SAS has halted most of its traffic (essentially cancelling all flights) and invoked temporarily reduced its workforce by 90%.

AIR NEW ZEALAND is cutting capacity by 85% over coming months and placed itself into a trading halt.

HAWAIIAN AIRLINES is suspending service to Australia and New Zealand.

UNITED AIRLINES is cutting capacity by 50% in April/May and is expecting load factors of 20-30% during period.

UKRAINE INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES is suspending all international service and will operate all-domestic network.

VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS is reducing its schedule by 80% and will be parking 75% of fleet by March 26 (85% in April).

NORWEGIAN is reducing its schedule by 85% and furloughing 7,300 workers; most of fleet will be parked.

US DOT has denied antitrust approval to proposed joint venture between HAWAIIAN AIRLINES and JAPAN AIRLINES.

HEAVILIFT, Papua New Guinea leased ex-Czech Airlines ATR 72-500 (761) from Nordic Aviation Capital.

EUROATLANTIC AIRWAYS, Portugal agreed to lease two 787-8s from AerCap for delivery in early 2021.