The world's largest cargo plane - the Ukrainian Antonov An-225 Mriya - has been brought back into service to assist with intercontinental transport of vital medical equipment and PPE during the Covid-19 crisis.
Just days after Airbus announced a 35 per cent drop in deliveries for the month of March, Reuters has reported that company chief Guillaume Faury will be looking into multiple customer requests to defer deliveries.
British Airways stored its 11 Airbus A380 jets at the Châteauroux-Marcel Dassault Airport in France because of a lack of space at its base at London-Heathrow.
A new Boeing report reveals a drastic drop in commercial and defence deliveries for the first quarter of 2020.
The number of passengers at US airports has fallen to less than 100,000 a day, a drop of 96 per cent from last year and on a par with levels last seen in 1954.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released revised figures showing that the COVID-19 crisis will see airline passenger revenues drop by $314 billion in 2020, a 55% decline compared to 2019.
