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.
Boeing has delivered the first set of reusable 3D-printed face shields to US healthcare authorities, in a bid to curb the spread of COVID-19.
A 64-year-old French pensioner was ejected from the cockpit of a Dassault Rafale-B fighter jet during the course of an aerobatics flight out of Saint-Dizier, in the country’s north-east. An incident report released by France’s Civil Aviation Authority blamed inadequate medical safeguards and safety protocols for the dramatic incident. The 64-year-old defence manufacturing employee was
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for the European Union to close its 26-country Schengen area to non-citizens for at least another five months.
