[Coronavirus] SWISS supports the FDFA’s unprecedented repatriation operation and is also offering cargo-only flights
SWISS is supporting the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) in its current unprecedented repatriation operation. As The Airline of Switzerland, SWISS will...
Ryanair to operate limited schedule for the coming days to keep skies open
All of the team at Ryanair are working hard to provide repatriation and rescue flights for many EU Governments. Ryanair is also offering aircraft...
Air Belgium operates two special flights from Dakar and Banjul to Brussels
On 25 March 2020, Air Belgium is operating two more repatriation flights for stranded passengers in Banjul and Dakar, which are due to arrive...
Aeromexico will use Boeing 737 and 787-9 passenger aircraft for cargo
Due to the health contingency and, supporting the continuity of economies and businesses, Aeromexico will use part of its grounded fleet for cargo-only through...
The new Alitalia public company will be much smaller, with only 25-30 aircraft
"Alitalia is strategic and will become the flag carrier again". But the newco will start from a small size, just a quarter of the...
[Coronavirus] Thai Airways suspends most of its network until 31 May
Thai Airways International Public Company Limited (THAI) today announced that due to the ongoing global outbreak of COVID-19, several countries in Europe and Asia...
[Coronavirus] Etihad is temporarily suspending all flights departing Abu Dhabi effective immediately
The UAE Government has made the decision to bring forward the date of suspension for all inbound, outbound, and transit flights to Abu Dhabi....
Air Dolomiti guarantees a minimum flight schedule from Italy to Frankfurt
Air Dolomiti, the Italian airline of Lufthansa Group, announces that it has planned a minimum schedule of flights from Italy to Frankfurt.After the temporary...
[Coronavirus] Austrian Airlines extends temporary cessation of flight operations until April 19, 2020
• All scheduled flights will be removed from the booking system
• Short-time work: all of the approx. 7,000 employees have been put on short-time...
Five years ago, a Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed in the French alps, deliberately caused by the co-pilot
Exactly five years ago, a Germanwings Airbus A320 (D-AIPX) operated flight 4U9525 between Barcelona, Spain and Dusseldorf, Germany. 100 km north-west of Nice in the French...
[Coronavirus] A picture is worth a thousand words (part two): Passenger planes crowd runways
Airlines are forced to reduce flights amid travel restrictions and a huge drop in demand as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Passenger...
[Corornavirus] Alitalia organises non-stop cargo flights from China to import medical supplies
Alitalia has organised, in coordination with the Italian Department of Civil Protection, the first of a series of cargo flights from China with the...
[Coronavirus] KLM starts the summer schedule with 57 destinations
Due to the corona crisis, KLM will start the summer schedule with a significantly reduced network. From 29 March until and including 3 May,...
Corendon will cancel all travel until June 1, 2020
Corendon has today decided to cancel all its vacations with departure until June 1, 2020. This decision is the result of current travel advice...
[Coronavirus] Eurowings further reduces flight programme
• Focus on the return of holidaymakers abroad
• fuselage program at the airports of Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Stuttgart
• Germanwings and Eurowings Europe...
Serve Air Cargo Boeing 727 suffers a hydraulic issue just after take-off Kinshasa N’Djili Airport (DRC)
On 21 March, a Serve Air Cargo Boeing 727 performed an emergency landing at Kinshasa's N'Djili Airport (Democratic Republic of the Congo) after a...
[Coronavirus] Singapore Airlines cuts 96% of its capacity; 138 aircraft grounded
Singapore Airlines will be cutting 96% of the capacity that had been originally scheduled up to end-April, given the further tightening of border controls...
Emirates temporarily suspends most passenger operations by 25 March
Since the COVID-19 outbreak began, Emirates and dnata have been adapting operations in line with regulatory directives as well as travel demand.The airline has...
[Coronavirus] Alitalia operates more special flights and increases scheduled ones to repatriate thousand of Italians stranded abroad
New Alitalia special flights, in collaboration with the Crisis Unit of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and more scheduled services to repatriate thousands...
Lufthansa Group publishes flight schedule for returnees
Lufthansa Group Airlines' flight schedule geared to returnees
Return flight schedule initially valid until 19.4.
Lufthansa Group provides 920,000 face masks to health...