Month: April 2020

On Monday, Airbus said it would give furlough to some 3,200 production and production-support workers at its aircraft wing production site in Broughton, Wales. The announcement came after the plane maker’s chief executive, Guillaume Faury, warned the company was “bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed”. An agreement was reached between the company and its employee … Read more

Although it is the centre of German aviation, the global pandemic that has caused a great reduction in traffic has also hit the Frankfurt Airport hard. In March alone, the airport’s passenger traffic dropped by over 60%. However, its cargo operations are still fully functional. A once busy airport with aircrafts arriving and departing in … Read more

British low-cost airline group EasyJet has recently decided to postpone the delivery of 24 airbuses due to the current coronavirus pandemic which has caused the business of air transportation to plummet than anyone could have suspected or predicted drastically. On Thursday, 9th April, a meeting was held with shareholders after the airline’s founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou … Read more

One of the major carriers in the United States, American Airline, relay their apology to their pilots after mistakenly offering them thousands of voluntary leave options as part of the company’s plan and effort to lower and cut the costs to fight the on-going crisis brought by the novel coronavirus that significantly affected the travel … Read more