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Civilian aviation news April 8, 2020

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…

Civilian aviation news April 8, 2020

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…

Civilian aviation news April 8, 2020

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…

Civilian aviation news April 8, 2020

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…

Military Aviation News April 3, 2020

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…

Civilian aviation news April 3, 2020

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…

Civilian aviation news April 3, 2020

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…

Space News April 3, 2020

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…

Boeing KC-46A Pegasus 15-46009 344th ARS USAF

Military Aviation News April 3, 2020

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…

Civilian aviation news April 2, 2020

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…

Civilian aviation news April 2, 2020

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…

Civilian aviation news April 2, 2020

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…

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