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Chinese Aviation Industry Recovery Continues To Offer Hope
The latest data indicates that normal life is making a slow but sure return to China. Airline capacity is increasing week on week and most of the airports, including in hard-hit Hubei province, are reopening for business. Do these tiny sparks of hope give optimism to the rest of the world? Let’s take a look.
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How Countries With No National Airline Rescue Their Citizens
All over the world, national airlines are operating rescue flights to bring stranded citizens back to their countries of residence. Flag carriers embark on journeys they would otherwise never fly, like Austrian Airlines did on its historic flight to Sydney last weekend. But what happens to citizens of countries that do not have national airlines? Let’s take a look at North Macedonia as an example.
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Commercial

How Embraer Was Born - The Story Of A Brazilian Startup
Embraer is currently the third-most important plane builder worldwide. Until a few years ago was on a toe to toe battle with Canadian-builder Bombardier both on the commercial and executive markets. Now it is in the middle of a possible merger with Boeing. But, how Embraer was born?
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What If The Antonov AN-225 Was A Passenger Plane?
In a previous article, we asked the question of which was better: an Airbus A380 or an Antonov AN-225? But we focused on the cargo aspect and didn’t consider if the Antonov was converted into a passenger aircraft. What would a passenger version of an AN-225 look like? Where would it fly? And would it make sense for airlines?
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Virus Already Affecting Aviation Suppliers Such As Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce has started to feel the pinch from the current crisis. The engine maker has seen 50% of its revenue vanish overnight, as airlines and aerospace builders stop placing aircraft orders and stop paying rent on engines.
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Airlines

$1.4 Billion Bailout Requested By Virgin Australia
Australia’s second airline, Virgin Australia, has asked the Australian government for an AUD$1.4 billion (USD$860 million) bailout loan. This comes after a flurry of publicity by the airline’s CEO to assure the public that Virgin Australia was financially sound. However, this hasn’t stopped many pundits from raising concerns about the ongoing viability of Virgin Australia.
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United Maintains Cargo Capacity To Connect Military Families
United Airlines is following the lead of other airlines to maintain key cargo links. In recent days, the airline has flown widebody aircraft to key military destinations including Guam and Frankfurt with supplies and mail.
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Happy Birthday Thai Airways - 60 years Of Connecting Passengers In Southeast Asia
Yesterday marked 60 years since Thai Airways first emerged. Since 29th March, 1960, the flag carrier of Thailand has helped passengers connect across the country and beyond.
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LATAM Reduces Its International Operations To Just 5 Routes In April
LATAM Airlines Group will reduce its international operations to just five international routes until 30 April, due to travel restrictions worldwide. The Group temporarily suspended all other international routes, it said in a statement.
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Finnair Unbundles Business Class Fares
From March 31st, Finnair passengers can choose a new fare when traveling with the airline. The flag carrier of Finland is introducing Business Light, which is a lower-priced business class ticket without some of the perks in the all-encompassing offering.
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Royal Air Maroc Will Join The oneworld Alliance As Planned
About a year and a half ago, in late 2018, the oneworld Alliance held a press conference in New York and publicly declared that Moroccan carrier Royal Air Maroc would be joining the team. The process to join doesn’t happen overnight, but finally, the time has come.
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Did American Airlines Just Operate Its Last Boeing 767 Flight?
On March 30th, American Airlines operated what may have been the last revenue flight performed on its Boeing 767 aircraft. The airline was planning to stop flights with the widebody this year. However, with operations facing a period of downtime, this retirement looks to have come early.
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Indian Airlines Move 15 Tons Of Medical Supplies On 62 Flights
The Ministry of Civil Aviation of India has today announced in a press release that over 62 flights have been operated across the nation to supply essential medical equipment. These flights were operated during the five day period from 26th-30th March.
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Qatar Airways Finally Accepts First Boeing 787-9s
In the past week, four Boeing 787-9s have flown from Victorville in California to Doha in Qatar for delivery to Qatar Airways. However, it’s not the first time these aircraft have landed at Hamad International, as they previously made the trip in December before promptly returning to the US. Hopefully, this time, they’re there to stay.
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Where Is Norwegian Storing Its Boeing 787 Dreamliners?
Norwegian is an airline with just two aircraft types. The airline operates the Boeing 737 and 787. It currently has 37 Boeing 787s, with a further three aircraft awaiting delivery.
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Air Transat Finally Retires Its Last Airbus A310
Air Transat flight TS765 from Porto, Portugal, touched down at Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday morning. The Airbus A310 carried Canadian citizens that had been stranded in Europe due to travel restrictions, on what was to be its last passenger flight before retirement.
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Wizz Air Rescuing Hungarians Through First Transatlantic Flights
Repatriation flights continue to operate around the world with some truly unique and irregular routes. Early this morning, we saw some Wizz Air repatriation flights depart from Budapest towards Keflavik in Iceland. However, KEF is merely a technical stop as the two narrowbody Airbus A321s of the Wizz fleet refuel and continue on.
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Want To Earn Frequent Flyer Miles From Home? S7 Has The Answer
Russian carrier S7 Airlines is giving its frequent flier members a chance to earn miles at home. As governments and health agencies around the world encourage people to social distance and avoid nonessential travel through April, S7 is giving passengers a reward for staying home.
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Airports

Israeli Airport To Become Plane Parking Facility Amid Travel Ban
As airlines around the world reduce services, and in some cases ground their entire fleets, Israel has offered to help out. As the coronavirus impacts the airline industry with a crisis like they have never seen before, the State of Israel has offered one of its airports as a parking facility for grounded aircraft.
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What Will Happen To Hub Airports With The Rise Of Ultra Long Haul Travel?
The past few years have seen the rapid rise of ultra-long-haul routes connecting distant parts of the world nonstop. While these routes cut down travel time for passengers, they also pose a threat to the traditional hub-and-spoke model. So what will happen to hub airports in the future?
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Tegel airport operator plans temporary closure to cut costs
Berlin’s airports operator is preparing a temporary closure of the Tegel airport, and requires fresh capital to deal with the fallout of the coronavirus crisis. FBB has proposed the Tegel closure to save costs amid a sharp decline in flights.
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Brussels South hopes to resume commercial operations on may 3
Brussels South Charleroi Airport has unveiled plans to partially resume commercial operations on Sunday, May 3.
The airport suspended commercial operations on March 24 meaning that it is currently only handling health, government and maintenance flights.
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Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death I Shall Fear No Evil For I am 80,000 feet and Climbing.

- sign over the entrance to the SR-71 operating location on Kadena AB kinawa.

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