Air Transport

Operations have returned to normal at Copenhagen Airport after a passenger with suspected coronavirus was taken to hospital after arriving at the airport Feb. 7 with symptoms.

The major Asian airline industry group says some governments in the region have overreacted by imposing sweeping travel restrictions due to the coronavirus outbreak that began in China.

AEROFLOT plans October 25 to begin five-times-weekly Moscow Sheremetyevo-Singapore (A350-900).

SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS added further initiatives to restructuring plan that include significant network changes (it plans to eliminate service to

US DOT says US scheduled pax airlines employed 79,965 full-/part-time workers in December vs 729,693 in December 2018.

LUFTHANSA reduced its A350-900 orderbook in January from 45 to 43 aircraft; 15 have been delivered.

BREEZE AIRWAYS is official name of David Neeleman's new Salt Lake City-based startup to launch services to mid-sized US cities by end of 2020 using

Spirit AeroSystems, the Wichita aerostructures giant whose fortunes are tied to the Boeing 737 MAX, has cut its April 9 quarterly dividend to a penny per share.

In the past two months, Emirates has processed nearly 650,000 refund requests, returning over AED 1.9 billion to its customers.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) urged governments in the Middle 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.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced full-year global passenger traffic results for 2019 showing that demand (revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose by 4.2% compared to the full year of 2018.

A “blip” in activity but no serious impact is expected.

The country’s airlines have halted most of their operations. Three small airlines have stopped flying completely.

A new marker for getting back to normal is 2023, but it remains to be seen whether Boeing can fix itself and also mend the supply chain.

Results of high-and low-speed testing in NASA wind tunnels continue to show promise for Boeing’s Transonic Truss-Braced Wing concept.

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Despite economic uncertainty, trade tensions and headwinds compounded by the Coronavirus outbreak, the Asia-Pacific region—and China in particular—remains pivotal to Boeing’s fortunes and the best hope for offsetting the commercial slowdown, a company executive said.

Minneapolis-based LCC Sun Country expects to have 10 Boeing 737-800 converted freighters operating on behalf of Amazon by the end of this summer, the airline’s president and CEO said at Routes Americas.

Boeing continues to refine its updated 737 MAX fight control computer (FCC) software and proposed simulator training, addressing new issues that have cropped up in testing and pilot evaluations and analyzing the risks of a wiring issue that may require modifications.

Boeing predicts transatlantic passenger air traffic flow to grow 2.8% annually over the next 20 years in terms of RPKs, indicating one of the world’s most popular air traffic corridors still has plenty of room to grow, Routes 2020 Americas delegates heard.

FAA Administrator Steve Dickson has hinted of a new regulatory regime around aircraft certification leaning on lessons learned from the ongoing Boeing 737 MAX debacle.

Spirit Airlines will prioritize increasing network connectivity over adding new destinations in 2020, marking a shift in strategy amid signs of route maturation across its network.

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