COVID-19

By Ben Goldstein
With the global recovery in air traffic demand expected to last up to several years, airlines that survive will likely emerge from the COVID-19 crisis as smaller businesses operating leaner and more efficient fleets.
Airlines & Lessors

ACI JET, CA launched mobile Return to Service (eRTS) program for Global, Challenger and Citation business jets that have been sitting in extended
Business Aviation

QATAR AIRWAYS secured $850m financing agreement with Standard Chartered for seven 787-9s to increase its liquidity.
Air Transport

AZUL announced its controlling shareholder (David Neeleman) was forced to sell majority of his preferred shares in airline to repay US$30m loan after
Air Transport

FLYDUBAI split fleet between Al Maktoum (23 737NGs/three MAX 9s) and Dubai Intl. (15 737NGs/10 MAX 8s) to perform maintenance. MAXs are being
MRO

BOEING restarted limited operations at certain sites in Washington State on several defense programs, including the P-8 and KC-46, and some 737 MAX
Aerospace

By Molly McMillin
With a dramatic decline in airline flights during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is becoming challenging for some bone marrow donors in rural areas to travel to distribution sites and for donor stem cells to reach their intended recipients in time for the patient to survive, according to Be The Match.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Lee Hudson
The Department of the Air Force has conducted its first-ever Space Acquisition Council meeting and discussed the need for integration and synchronization across the national security space community, current and projected threats to U.S. interests in space, and the impact of the COVID-19 environment on the aerospace industry.
Space Symposium

By Jens Flottau
Polish Aviation Group PGL officially dropped its bid to buy German leisure carrier Condor amid the coronavirus crisis.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
The European Commission (EC) has given the go-ahead for the Swedish government’s plans to provide SEK5 billion ($500 million) of support to airlines affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines joint-venture airline SunExpress will switch 18 of its Boeing 737-800 passenger aircraft to freight operations while passenger flights remain suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Central and Eastern European LCC Wizz Air has announced 1,000 job redundancies and pay cuts that will last until March 2021, in preparation for the wider financial impact of COVID-19.
Airlines & Lessors

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Kazakhstan airlines have lost KZT235 billion ($549 million) as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic so far, the country’s Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development said April 13.
Airlines & Lessors

IATA is now estimating airline industry will take $314b revenue hit in 2020 (up from $252b) from COVID-19, representing 55% drop vs 2019 (outlook
Air Transport

MTU AERO ENGINES plans April 20 to begin gradual restart of operations in Germany, initially in Munich with about 20% of workforce; restart at MTU
Aerospace

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS is offering $1b of senior secured second lien notes, guaranteed by Spirit AeroSystems North Carolina and secured by certain real
Aerospace

SAFRAN and SEGULA TECHNOLOGIES teamed to adapt Decathalon's Easybreath Subea snorkeling mask for medical purposes and are opening access to files need
Aerospace

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon has issued a $415 million contract for N95 critical decontamination units to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Helen Massy-Beresford
PARIS—Air France-KLM is reportedly hoping to negotiate state-backed loans worth €10 billion ($11 billion) to help it survive the COVID-19 crisis that has cut its activity by around 90%.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
IATA has revised downwards its 2020 economic forecast for the global airline industry.
Airlines & Lessors

By Bradley Perrett
Mitsubishi Aircraft is maintaining flight testing of a SpaceJet prototype at its Nagoya, Japan headquarters as pandemic-control measures prevent activity at its U.S. test base.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Adrian Schofield
Japan’s biggest airlines continue to cut schedules in response to COVID-19 demand drop.
Airports & Networks

By Ben Goldstein
Largest six US airlines would have to pay back about a third of the payroll assistance they will receive in COVID-19 rescue.
Airports & Networks

By Adrian Schofield
Domestic schedule moves toward normalcy as South Korea recovers from COVID-19 pandemic.
Airports & Networks

By Wesley Charnock
How airlines around the world are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airlines & Lessors