The World of Aviation

United Airlines management and its labour unions are warning of massive layoffs if Washington doesn’t inject billions to the airline industry by the end of this month.

Boeing has closed the company’s Everett facility, located just outside of Seattle, Washington, for two weeks.

Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson has vowed to invest £215m into his struggling business after coming under fire from swathes of the UK media for not doing more to help.

The United Arab Emirates has announced it will suspend all passenger flights, including Dubai and Abu Dhabi airport transit, from 25 March.

New analysis shows more than a third of the world’s airline activity has been drastically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the start of the crisis, more than 37 million seats have been cut as travel restrictions prevent airlines from operating at full capacity.

US evangelical aid organization Samaritan’s Purse sent a field hospital and medical personnel to Verona on March 17 with a Douglas DC-8-72 built-in 1969.