Airbus cuts jet production to cope with coronavirus crisis
PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus on Wednesday cut production across the board to absorb the hit to manufacturing from the coronavirus crisis. In its largest ever…
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25 Million Jobs at Risk with Airline Shutdown
Geneva -The International Air Transport Association has released new analysis showing that some 25 million jobs are at risk of disappearing with plummeting demand for…
IATA Releases 2019 Airline Safety Report
Montreal – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced the release of the 2019 Safety Report showing continuing improvements in airline safety compared to 2018…
Airbus provides update on March commercial aircraft orders & deliveries
Business impacted by COVID-19 pandemic 21 net orders and 36 deliveries in March 2020 290 net orders and 122 deliveries in Q1 2020 Production rates…
Boeing Delivers First CH-47F Chinook to Royal Netherlands Air Force
-Aircraft is first of 20 CH-47F Chinooks to be delivered to RNLAF -Netherlands is one of eight NATO nations to operate the heavy-lift helicopter…
Leasing company Avolon cancels order for 75 Boeing 737MAX jets, 4 Airbus A330s
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Aircraft lessor Avolon on Friday announced the cancellation of an order for 75 Boeing 737 MAX planes that were due to be…
Airline crisis forces Airbus to consider A320 output cuts
PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus is studying a sharp cut in output of its top-selling A320 plane series amid an industry-wide slowdown triggered by the coronavirus…
Airbus built BepiColombo mission will make a fly-by past Earth
03 April 2020 – The Airbus built BepiColombo mission will make a fly-by past Earth on 10th April 2020 as it continues on its epic…
US Air Force and Boeing agree on final KC-46 RVS 2.0 design
ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) — The Air Force and Boeing reached two agreements April 2 to implement a final KC-46A Pegasus Remote Vision System design, known…
IATA – Passenger Demand Plunges on COVID-19 Travel Restrictions
Geneva – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic data for February 2020 showing that demand (measured in total revenue passenger kilometers…
IATA – Air cargo growth slumps in February as COVID-19takes hold
Geneva – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released February 2020 data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in cargo tonne kilometers…
China’s domestic aviation recovers, but only mildly, from virus shutdowns
BEIJING/SYDNEY (Reuters) – China’s domestic flights rose by about a fifth in March from the previous month, the aviation regulator said, but that was still…