Coronavirus

Their customers are grounded, but airlines are working to keep them loyal.

Ask the Editors: Airlines will be in cash-preservation mode as long as they can, so this year and 2021 could be tough for maintenance.

The defense sector is faring well in the COVID-19 crisis, but gargantuan new levels of government debt signal trouble ahead.

The IFC/IFE sector is reeling along with all aviation. Analysts and executives see sunnier days eventually, but also darkening clouds.

NORWEGIAN AIR SHUTTLE disclosed aircraft lessors AERCAP (15.9%), AVOLON (5.5%), BOC AVIATION (12.7%), DP AIRCRAFT IRELAND (5%) and MG AVIATION (11%)

EMIRATES is looking to cancel five of its remaining eight A380-800s on order, according to unconfirmed media reports.

AMERICAN AIRLINES is considering replacing some of its 47 777-200ERs with 787s; it has 25 787-9s on order.

AAR plans July 24 to close its 188,000 sq ft narrowbody heavy maintenance facility (269 employees) at Duluth International Airport, MN, which supports

BOEING established Confident Travel Initiative team to work with airlines, global regulators, industry stakeholders, flying passengers, infectious

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.