The Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) is coordinating with the volunteer organizations Angel Flight West and Central to create a distribution system to ensure personal protective equipment (PPE) reach remote hospitals, primarily in Colorado, but also in Nebraska and Kansas.
The Coronavirus impact on the aviation Industry
Apr 20, 2020 - 9:49 AM
Boeing used a BBJ from its corporate fleet for its first transport mission supporting aid for the Covid-19 pandemic, delivering more than half a million masks from China to New Hampshire. The Boeing 737-700 transported 540,000 medical-grade masks in a donation organized by First Robotics founder Dean Kamen.
Apr 17, 2020 - 11:02 AM
About 30 days into the biggest spanner-in-the-spokes that the business aviation industry has yet faced, signs of hope that at least the worst of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic might be peaking are what many are looking for these days. Pressures to return to some semblance of a “new normal” life have been building, as we individually and collectively learn to adjust to a very different world of work and life.
Though aircraft traffic is down substantially worldwide, GDP growth forecasts for key economies are grim, and U.S. unemployment has skyrocketed, there a silver lining to all of this disruption. In fact, there is never a better time to reimagine, restructure, and retool an organization as there is right now. Capital remains cheap, and talent (an oh-so-tight resource up until very recently) is suddenly and widely available.
For those with a longer-term view of their business aviation enterprise, now is an excellent time to innovate and to consider investments while others are hunkered down—think airplanes, competitors, technology startups, tooling, facilities, and airport property.
As an industry, I am confident that business aviation will bend but not break—and come out the other end even stronger for the exercise. When? As a public health crisis, let’s defer to the medical experts on the front lines of searching for the blessed vaccine, which can’t come soon enough.
Apr 17, 2020 - 10:49 AM
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has designated the $10 billion in funds set aside for commercial and general aviation airports under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Airport Grant Program. It announced funding awards a little more than two weeks after the CARES Act became law.
Apr 17, 2020 - 9:33 AM
Worldwide business jet flights dipped by as much as 79 percent in the first two weeks of April, according to new statistics published by data analyst WingX. For the U.S., the latest numbers indicated a worsening situation as data released by the company last week covering the first seven days of April showed a 60 percent drop compared with the same period in 2019.
Apr 17, 2020 - 7:30 AM
Boeing plans to resume production of commercial airplanes in a “phased approach” at its Puget Sound-region facilities starting April 20, the company said on Thursday. The re-start of production activities at plants in Renton, Everett, Auburn, and Frederickson will come a week after a partial resumption of mainly defense program-related work and involve 27,000 employees.
Apr 16, 2020 - 6:42 PM
Ross Aviation has added aircraft cabin disinfecting services at some of its FBOs, in light of the current Covid-19 pandemic. While the Denver-based company has ramped up its infectious disease safety precautions chain-wide, it has retained aircraft cleaning specialist David Allen Certified to advise and train its staffers on the disinfection process, starting at its facilities in Scottsdale, Arizona and Sarasota, Florida.
Apr 16, 2020 - 4:29 PM
To help ease operational difficulties for its customers amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Avfuel has waived the initial training subscription fee for its FAA-approved Part 139 line fuel safety and supervisory courses through June 30. The offer gives Avfuel customers free access to all of the online Avfuel Training System content for a year upon new initial sign up.
Apr 16, 2020 - 12:41 PM
NBAA has formed a partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA) to ensure hospitals can tap into the Humanitarian Emergency Response Operator (HERO) database to coordinate Covid-19 assistance capabilities. Now 15 years old, the NBAA HERO database serves as a compilation of people, aircraft, and other resources that are available to assist with disaster response and has been used for efforts such as the 2010 Haitian earthquake and numerous hurricanes.
Apr 16, 2020 - 11:52 AM
Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways plans to start scheduled passenger services on May 1 under a reduced schedule to remain in place until June 30, subject to the status of United Arab Emirates travel restrictions, the company announced Thursday. Meanwhile, Etihad has revised the launch date of its inaugural service to Vienna from May 22 to July 1.
