COVID-19

While many MRO providers have started to furlough, lay-off or short-time workers, the full impact of the crisis is yet to be felt, with many analysts

The single-aisle market will be severely affected but less so than widebodies.

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Spirit Airlines is planning to operate around 550 daily flights in July—an aggressive restoration of more than 80% of last year’s scheduled capacity.

Austria’s Ryanair subsidiary Laudamotion plans to become a wet-lease carrier; however, it will have to implement several survival measures deemed necessary to face post-COVID-19 competition.

Spanish LCC Volotea expects in the next few days to continue restarting commercial flights in several countries and to create 200 additional jobs.

Iberia is to retire its fleet of Airbus A340s this year, several years earlier than planned, as it seeks to right-size its fleet amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Delta Air Lines plans to continue reshaping its network by adding 1,000 daily departures in August, building on a similarly sized expansion of July’s timetable, before “taking a pause” and evaluating fall demand trends, CEO Ed Bastian said.

Airports across Poland have convinced Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to relax air travel restrictions put in place at the height of the COVID-19 crisis as of July 1.

Austrian Airlines hopes to be operating at least a basic hub again at Vienna by the end of July.

Japan Airlines (JAL) intends to raise another ¥300 billion ($2.8 billion) in financing to help it operate through the COVID-19 crisis.

Cathay has gained short-term relief through government support but now must turn its attention to reassessing business and fleet plans.

Post-pandemic regulations could also lead to changes in the way airports manage passenger flow.

The situation calls for companies and leaders that can act fast and think ahead.

Textron plans to lay off nearly 2,000 employees at its TRU Simulation + Training, Textron Aviation and Industrial divisions to cut operating expenses as it restructures in response to challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, the company said in a Securities & Exchange filing June 18.

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An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to Carrier Air Wing 11 operating from the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) crashed in the Philippine Sea on June 18.

MESA AIRLINES permanently removed two (of 59) CRJ900s from its capacity purchase agreement with AMERICAN AIRLINES.

QANTAS has canceled all international flights until late October (with possible exception of transTasman Sea routes) due to extended closure of

EMIRATES is adding scheduled service to 10 more cities: Colombo (from June 20), Sialkot (June 24), Istanbul (June 25); Auckland, Beirut, Brussels

JETBLUE AIRWAYS is adding 30 new domestic routes to serve leisure market, which it says is showing some signs of strength as business travel is facing

With the support of a newly appointed associate administrator, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has expressed confidence that his agency can achieve an accelerated return to the Moon’s surface with human explorers by 2024.

Air-service incentives were a big deal before the COVID-19 pandemic decimated demand.

Qatar Airways Group CEO Akbar Al Baker has told both Airbus and Boeing the carrier will not be taking any aircraft this year or next due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to UK-based Sky News.

Qantas has canceled all international flights until late October, with the potential exception of routes to and from New Zealand.