Delta announced that it would suspend flights to eleven United States airports. The suspension for the US airports will come into effect on July 8, 2020. The following airports will no longer be served by DL: Aspen, Colorado (ASE) Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (AVP) Bangor, Maine (BGR) Erie, Pennsylvania (ERI) New Bern/Morehead/Beaufort, North Carolina (EWN) Flint, Michigan…
The U.S. Transportation Department plans to issue a revised order in the coming days that is likely to allow some Chinese passenger airline flights to continue, government and airline officials said. On Thursday, China said it would ease coronavirus restrictions to allow in more foreign carriers, shortly after Washington said it planned to bar Chinese…
On Tuesday, Delta Air Lines (DL) retired its MD-88 and MD-90 aircraft earlier than previously planned. The carrier accelerated the retirement schedule of both aircraft as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Greece has suspended flights to and from Qatar after 12 passengers arriving from Doha to Athens tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The Greek civil protection authority said 12 out of 91 people on a Qatar Airways flight that arrived on Monday had tested positive for Covid-19. “Following these epidemiological facts, flights from and to…
Airbus signalled it would sue airlines refusing to honour contracts in the face of the coronavirus crisis. The warning by Chief Executive Guillaume Faury in a news interview came as Airbus announced May deliveries well below normal, despite a partial recovery to 24 jets. Planemakers and lessors have received multiple requests from airlines to delay…