The complexities faced by aircraft operators trying to navigate ongoing Covid-19 travel restrictions were highlighted by an April 4 incident in which 10 passengers landing at Marseille in the south of France on a chartered Embraer Legacy were denied entry to the country after local police ruled that their trip breached the country’s strict lockdown rules. While the details of how the flight was managed have proved hard to confirm, it seems clear that the wasted trip could have been avoided with more thorough planning.
The Coronavirus impact on the aviation Industry
Apr 14, 2020 - 4:29 PM
Michigan-based Avfuel has joined the ranks of aviation companies that have turned their attention to producing personal protective equipment (PPE) for the medical community in the fight against Covid-19.
Apr 14, 2020 - 1:43 PM
New York-based aircraft decontamination specialist Aqueous Solutions has expanded its offerings from the metro-NYC area to provide nationwide emergency disinfecting service for Covid-19. Approved by the CDC and the FDA for use against the virus, the company’s contamination service cleans and disinfects aircraft and airport locations such as FBO terminals and hangars using a unique electrostatic fogging and spraying system.
Apr 14, 2020 - 12:50 PM
The aviation industry is increasingly becoming concerned that the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (AATF) is in danger of depletion as an unintended consequence of the recently adopted CARES Act and the ongoing ramifications of Covid-19 restrictions.
Apr 14, 2020 - 12:08 PM
Boeing reported a 66-percent decline in first-quarter commercial airplane deliveries compared with the same period in 2019 due primarily to the continued grounding of the 737 Max and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, which saw the company cease production at its factories in the Puget Sound area in late March and Charleston, South Carolina, in early April.
Apr 14, 2020 - 11:15 AM
Despite a 37 percent year-over-year uptick in preowned helicopter sales and a smaller 8 percent rise in units sold in the first quarter, the market is expected to swing lower from the “double whammy” effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and sliding oil prices, according to rotorcraft broker Aero Asset’s Preowned Helicopter Market Trends report.
Apr 14, 2020 - 10:19 AM
An NBAA webinar yesterday explored how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the submitting of documents on aircraft transactions to the FAA Civil Aviation Registry.
Apr 14, 2020 - 9:52 AM
The International Air Transport Association has revised upward expected 2020 passenger revenue losses for the world’s airlines due to the Covid-19 pandemic from $252 billion to $314 billion, the group reported Tuesday. Speaking during IATA’s weekly conference call on the effects of the crisis on the air transport industry, chief economist Brian Pearce explained that the assumptions used to arrive at the earlier figure hinged on traffic statistics from the last week of March, when the world’s airlines witnessed roughly a 65 percent decline in capacity.
Apr 13, 2020 - 11:45 PM
The Covid-19 crisis has forced both helicopter operators and aviation regulators to make significant changes with regard to air ambulance transports. The majority of these involve relaxing the regulatory framework for aircraft modifications used to abate transmission of the virus between passengers/patients and crew as well as changing operational procedures with regard to the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and aircraft decontamination.
Apr 13, 2020 - 2:44 PM
Emirates Airline plans to restart operations from Dubai International Airport’s Terminal 3 to accommodate additional repatriation flights to Jakarta, Tunis, Algiers, Manila, Tapei, and Chicago, supplementing recently relaunched operations to London and Frankfurt scheduled to continue until April 19, the airline said Monday.
Emirates has scheduled the first of the newly announced repatriation flights for April 15 to Jakarta and Manila. The Manila service involves two flights, the second of which the airline has scheduled for April 16.
