When online canine marketplace PuppySpot found itself impacted by the Covid-19 airline slowdown, it turned to private aviation to deliver baby hounds to their new homes. PuppySpot matches customers with highly vetted dog breeders across the U.S. and commits to safely delivering puppies to their destinations.
The Coronavirus impact on the aviation Industry
May 20, 2020 - 1:04 PM
The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) is asking the FAA to push off until the end of the year certain air carrier training and qualification deadline extensions, as well as certain emergency procedure training requirements, for crewmembers and certain other personnel.
May 20, 2020 - 12:49 PM
With airports experiencing a downturn in traffic due to the Covid-19 crisis, many have chosen to take advantage of the lull by accelerating planned infrastructure projects. Massport, which operates Boston Logan International Airport, has elected to begin a runway rehabilitation project on the gateway’s Runway 9/27, which it originally slated to begin at the end of August, following what would typically be a busy summer travel season.
May 20, 2020 - 12:05 PM
An Embraer Legacy 600 operated by UK-based charter provider Flairjet—a subsidiary of Flexjet Ltd.—was impounded this week and its crew arrested and placed in quarantine after allegedly violating NIgeria’s Covid-19 travel restrictions. According to reports, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority is investigating whether the aircraft, registered as G-ERFX, was engaged in commercial operations despite airspace closure in the country due to the pandemic.
May 20, 2020 - 4:42 AM
Rolls-Royce on Wednesday confirmed plans to eliminate 9,000 jobs from its global workforce of 52,000 people in direct response to the collapse in demand for civil aircraft triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. The aircraft engine maker indicated that the bulk of the cuts will likely be made on the civil aerospace side of its business and mainly in the UK, where much of this activity is concentrated.
May 19, 2020 - 1:10 PM
With many local governments and municipalities issuing stop eviction ordinances intended to provide short-term relief to local commercial businesses during the Covid-19 crisis, NATA sees this as a potential problem situation in the case of airports, one which might cause them to run afoul of their FAA grant assurance compliance.
May 19, 2020 - 11:07 AM
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Tuesday revealed details of its proposed temporary layered approach to biosecurity for restarting passenger flights amid the Covid-19 crisis. IATA has published a so-called roadmap outlining biosecurity protocols such as passenger temperature screening as a more effective alternative to draconian measures such as Spain’s requirement that incoming travelers submit to a 14-day quarantine.
May 19, 2020 - 11:07 AM
As some U.S. states begin to relax and modify their social distancing restrictions amid the continuing Covid-19 pandemic, AOPA has issued a pair of advisory documents to help operators and pilots return to operations as normally and safely as possible.
May 18, 2020 - 11:29 AM
The U.S. congressional delegation from Kansas last week appealed to House and Senate leaders to provide the general aviation community temporary relief from aviation fuel taxes. Congress previously suspended aviation excise taxes, including both the ticket and fuel taxes, for commercial aviation through the end of the year under the CARES Act, but fuel taxes remained in place for private aviation.
May 18, 2020 - 10:56 AM
The Covid-19 crisis is exacerbating the shortage of new aviation maintenance technicians, according to Crystal McGuire, executive director of the Aviation Technician Education Council (ATEC). During a Helicopter Association International (HAI) webinar on May 14, McGuire warned that of the 181 FAA-certified Part 147 aviation maintenance technician schools, half expected graduations to decrease in 2020 by 25 percent and fully 60 percent said enrollment would drop by 28 percent.
