COVID-19

By David Casey
Routes' latest update on how airlines and airports across the Middle East and Africa are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airports & Networks

By Ben Goldstein
The airline will continue to serve Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Airports & Networks

Through the conditions of their support packages to airlines, governments around the world are deciding the industry's fate.
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Moores
The European Commission has approved a Danish state guarantee of up to €137 million ($149 million) for Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), ruling that the funding is in line with EU state-aid rules.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
Australia’s second-largest carrier plans to continue operating a vastly reduced schedule while administrators from Deloitte work to find a buyer for the airline.
Airports & Networks

By Adrian Schofield
Virgin Australia has entered voluntary administration and the airline’s management is proposing to keep as much of the airline intact as possible when it reemerges under a new ownership structure.
Airlines & Lessors

By Michael Bruno
Practically everyone in commercial aerospace is scrambling to figure out how deep, and how long, COVID-19 will affect industry. Two longtime aerospace experts from consultancy Roland Berger, Manfred Hader and Robert Thomson, join Aviation Week senior business editor Michael Bruno on Check 6 to discuss what may occur.
Air Transport

By William Garvey
As one of the solons correctly noted, “A time of crisis is a time for innovation.” Well, this is that time,
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
Space-based ADS-B provides another way to measure the status of commercial aviation.
Airlines & Lessors

By Michael Bruno
The coming weeks and months will be full of big announcements about business changes. Here are three factors affecting A&D supply chains.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

With so much going on within the aviation sector we want to know your views on the key topics and stories.
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By Guy Norris
As the airframers go, so goes the aircraft engine industry.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) granted Hawaiian Airlines a waiver to temporarily cease flying to eight mainland markets, agreeing that travel restrictions imposed by Hawaii’s governor make most service to the mainland unfeasible.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
Porter Airlines, joining its larger Canadian rivals, will tap the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program to bring some staff back to the payroll
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick, Chen Chuanren
Haeco Cabin Solutions, responding to a surge in cargo demand as passenger-aircraft belly capacity has been reduced during the coronavirus pandemic, is fast-tracking development of several products designed for carrying freight in passenger cabins.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Norwegian Air Shuttle said its pilot and cabin crew subsidiaries in Sweden and Denmark were filing for bankruptcy, in the latest casualty of the COVID-19 crisis.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
United Airlines warned of an estimated $2.1 billion pre-tax loss in the 2020 first quarter (Q1) and said it plans to seek up to $4.5 billion in additional loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson is saying Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia will need government support if they are to survive the COVID-19 crisis and keep competition alive in markets that would otherwise become effective monopolies.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon predicts there will be a three-month slowdown for major defense acquisition programs because of impacts related to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Budget, Policy & Operations

NORWEGIAN announced that its pilot and cabin crew companies in Sweden and Denmark filed for bankruptcy due to COVID-19.
Air Transport

AIR NEW ZEALAND is expected to keep its fleet of 16 777s grounded through April 2021.
Air Transport

BOEING resumed military rotorcraft production in Philadelphia after 2-week suspension due to COVID-19 (SPNWS; April 10).
Defense

AVIOINTERIORS, Italy has created two post-Coronavirus seat concepts to promote social separation: Janus triple with middle seat facing backwards and
Aerospace

WHITCRAFT is retooling some facilities to produce ventilators in partnership with University of Connecticut. It says following review of prototype, it
Aerospace

SHARING IN GROWTH (SiG) says seven beneficiaries, comprising EXCEL, HYDE, MARTIN AEROSPACE, NASMYTH BULWELL, NEMCO, PRODUMAX and SL ENGINEERING, were
Aerospace