COVID-19

A group of 13 U.S. Senate Democrats accused Delta Air Lines and JetBlue Airways of exploiting a workaround to the CARES Act’s prohibition on employee pay cuts by reducing hours in lieu of pay rates.

EASYJET plans to restart operations on June 15, principally on domestic routes with a minimal number of international routes.

ISTAT has committed $500,000 to support registered non-profit, non-governmental organizations that are directly responding to the COVID-19 pandemic

RavnAir Alaska, a regional carrier that before the COVID-19 crisis had provided connectivity throughout the state of Alaska prior to shutting down in April, appears to have a way forward that will allow it to resume operations this summer.

Ecuador’s flag-carrier TAME is to be liquidated as part of a series of measures the country is taking to rebalance the economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Among its many financial ravages, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has exposed the vulnerability of fee-based business models for providing air traffic services.

Alcohol wipes have been identified as a possible cause of wires shorting out on aircraft, causing at least one in-flight smoke event, a NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) report reveals.

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DELTA AIR LINES sold six CFM56-powered A321-200s (8036/8200/8207/8227/8859/8914) to Altitude Aircraft Leasing, and leased them back; Alititude was

NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission team is relaxing previous plans to descend to the surface of its target, called Bennu, to gather surface pebbles and soil for return to Earth, in part due to work constraints imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.

RPI UK says production has returned to 90% since reopening after COVID-19 lockdown; it aims to be at 100% by end of June (order book full until

HÉROUX-DEVTEK had C$50.7m net loss aon C$613m sales for year ended March 31 vs C$26.2m net income on C$484m a year ago. It says gross profit as a

IATA says an initial sample of financial data for 1Q20 shows an industry-wide EBIT margin of -10.5% of revenues; year-over-year global base pax yields

TAME, Ecuador is expected to be liquidated. It currently has three ATRs, two E190s and one each A320 and A319.

IATA reports worldwide airline share prices rose 3.2% in April vs March 2020; prices have dropped 47.9% since start of 2020.

Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines has taken the next steps to receive €767 million ($833 million) in financial assistance from the state to survive the COVID-19 crisis.

Alaska’s ‘national airline’ expects to exit Chapter 11 and be acquired.

FRANKFURT—The German government is in the final stages of negotiating a support package for Lufthansa that would give the airline access to around €9 billion ($9.9 billion) in new liquidity, coming just in time to avoid a possible insolvency process.

Ecuador’s president has revealed that loss-making national carrier TAME is to be liquidated, but essential routes that do not have a private sector operator will continue.

Following Air France’s decision to retire its Airbus A380 fleet immediately, Routes assesses the impact on the carrier’s network.

Welcome to Routes’ look at how the Asia-Pacific 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.

Routes' latest update on how airlines and airports across the Asia-Pacific region are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

How many aircraft will need to be stored long term, converted or parted out?

EASA has set out guidelines for flying in the COVID-19 era that include a requirement for passengers and crew to wear face masks at all times.

The COVID-19 pandemic could be the push the industry needs to get the FAA to update outdated aviation maintenance training regulations. The pandemic