The World of Aviation

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.

United is set to cut the number of May 2020 flights by 90 per cent as it contends with a 97 per cent drop in passenger numbers year to year in April.

The United States Air Force has inked a deal with Boeing for “VC-25B technical publications” – the instruction manual for the two military 747-200B jets collectively known as “Air Force One.”

Boeing will resume all commercial aeroplane production in its Puget Sound-region facilities next week, after suspending operations last month in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.