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European Parliament temporarily suspends the EU rules on airport slots:
https://www.aviation24.be/organisations ... gh-24-oct/

Press release EU: "...On 26th March, the European Parliament has voted in favour of COM/2020/111. This amendment to Regulation EEC 95/93 will stop air carriers from operating empty flights during the pandemic. The temporary suspension means that airlines are not obliged to use their planned take-off and landing slots to keep them in the next corresponding season. The 'use it or lose it' rule will be waived for the whole summer season, from 29 March until 24 October 2020. The proposal was adopted with 686 votes in favour, no votes against and 2 abstentions..."

Full text of the amendment:
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https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content ... 2020PC0111
NL:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content ... 11&from=EN
FR:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content ... 11&from=EN

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Iran too has suspended air services, this hasnt been mentioned in media or aviation circles but FR24 shows it.

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The European Commission has proposed to make €75 million from the EU budget available to help Member States repatriate EU nationals and to increase the budget of the RescEU medical stockpile.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/pressco ... /ip_20_535

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Hi,

For Qantas exit if the B744er this wknd !

The Jumbo will become rare soon...

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Ethiopian seems to keep business as usual !

https://www.theafricareport.com/25202/e ... -standing/

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Daily review:

Air Seychelles has suspended all flights across its regional network due to the outbreak of the coronavirus.

AirBaltic may have its share capital raised by the government, to help mitigate the challenges during the pandemic.

American Airlines will suspend 60% of its capacity in April 2020 and is planning to suspend up to 80% of its capacity in May 2020. Hawaii flights will be impacted.

Avianca begins B787 cargo operations with the passenger plane to help mitigate losses during the pandemic.

CanaryFly has temporarily ceased operations until 31 May 2020 due to government restrictions.

El Al grounded all passenger flights from 26 March until 04 April 2020 due to the impact of the pandemic. The carrier is seeking state aid of US$200-300 million. Also, around 5,500 of its 6,300 employees would be placed on unpaid leave until 31 May 2020.

Ellinair announced the temporary suspension of its domestic flights from 31 March until 30 April 2020 in response to the travel restrictions. International flights were suspended on 16 March.

Embraer will temporarily suspend its productive activities, during the period from 23-31 March 2020, which may be extended. This measure applies to all the company’s branches in Brazil.

Flybair to delay the start of operations by two months to July 2020 due to the current market environment.

Harbour Air (will temporarily suspend regularly scheduled flights beginning 28 March until 04 May 2020.

Indonesia National Air Carrier Association says Indonesian airlines have started taking efficiency measures amid challenging times caused by the pandemic by laying off employees.

MEA Middle East Airlines says it’s losing nearly US$1 million every day since the suspension of its flights on 18 March 2020.

Pobeda has suspended all flights from 01 April to 31 May 2020 to help mitigate effects of the pandemic. Not likely to return to OST soon...

REX Regional Express obtains regulator approval to share services with rivals Virgin Australia and Qantas on 10 important regional routes during the pandemic.

Rolls-Royce has now decided to significantly reduce all but essential activity within its UK Civil Aerospace facilities for one week from 27 March 2020.

Spirit Airlines expects to reduce capacity from its original plan by approximately 45% and 75% in April and May 2020, respectively.

TAAG has suspended all scheduled domestic and international operations for 15 days from 20 March 2020.

Thai Airways International to get government funds to help bail out the carrier due to effects from the pandemic.

Tsaradia has suspended all flights in light of the restrictions due to the coronavirus.

Turkish Airlines has suspended its flights to New York as of 27 March 2020, amid the global coronavirus outbreak.

United Airlines now plans to reduce domestic capacity by 52% in April 2020, meaning total scheduled capacity cut for the month will be 68% including 90% international capacity reduction.

Yakutia hopes it can delay lease payments as a measure to help the airline retain cash during the decrease in traffic due to the drastic downturn.

Brazil lobbied airlines in the country to maintain minimum air connectivity to all states during the pandemic.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law a sweeping $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package, including up to $58 billion in financial aid to help airlines blunt the financial impact of the COVID-19. pandemic.
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Because of the Covid-19 pandemic: Air traffic 95% suspended in Africa [/ b]

Air traffic has been cut 95% in Africa due to the coronavirus epidemic and the airlines are at risk, the African Airlines Association (Afraa) said on Thursday. "Today, 95% of the African air fleet is grounded due to the pandemic, except cargo flights," said Abderrahmane Berthé, secretary general of Afraa, which has 45 member airlines on the continent.


https://translate.google.fr/translate?h ... 28-03-2020

Worst Scenario, in France ( i guess)!!!

Covid-19: French air traffic could lose 65 million passengers in 2020 (IATA)

According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), companies operating in France could lose 12 billion dollars in turnover in 2020. This loss of activity threatens 318,000 jobs and 28.5 billion dollars in contribution to the French economy, explains IATA.

For info Air France / HOP / Transavia, it is 52 million pax, in 2019 https://www.air-journal.fr/2020-01-09-t ... 17465.html

https://translate.google.fr/translate?h ... 43491.html
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Today in the early morning the Belgium Defence Airbus A321 with 18 crew from the Belgian Air Force and the
Medical Component brought back 84 nationals from Belgium and several other European countries from Bamoko Mali.

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To see the traffic of flightradar24 currently, we are far from confinement.
And it's not just repatriation flights or cargo ...
As we said in french...on n'est pas sorti de l'auberge !

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nordikcam wrote: 28 Mar 2020, 17:46 To see the traffic of flightradar24 currently, we are far from confinement.
And it's not just repatriation flights or cargo ...
As we said in french...on n'est pas sorti de l'auberge !
Some airlines still operating sheculded flights, but it will decrease, from the next week ;), as more and more countries put confinement rules.

Air France should cut all domestic flights, next week, till at least may 2020. Paris Orly will close. More and more French airports are closing. At Roissy we will close the Terminal 1 / Terminal 2C / 2A / 2E gates M (S3).

Only 2F (Air France domestic and UE flights), 2D (because Belavia and Bulgraria Air still serving CDG) and 2E gate K will be open, at least till 6 April 2020. After, probably more terminals will close.

Yesterday, at the work, i saw an Emirates B777-300ER A6-ENM parked at the cargo ramp, at Paris CDG. But no pax, only Emirates containers unloaded and loaded. Aircraft was using the Emirates flights numbers normaly used for the DXB CDG service. But flight wasn't listed on Paris Aeroports website.
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rwandan-flyer wrote: 28 Mar 2020, 18:24
nordikcam wrote: 28 Mar 2020, 17:46 To see the traffic of flightradar24 currently, we are far from confinement.
And it's not just repatriation flights or cargo ...
As we said in french...on n'est pas sorti de l'auberge !
Some airlines still operating sheculded flights, but it will decrease, from the next week ;), as more and more countries put confinement rules.

Air France should cut all domestic flights, next week, till at least may 2020. Paris Orly will close. More and more French airports are closing. At Roissy we will close the Terminal 1 / Terminal 2C / 2A / 2E gates M (S3).

Only 2F (Air France domestic and UE flights), 2D (because Belavia and Bulgraria Air still serving CDG) and 2E gate K will be open, at least till 6 April 2020. After, probably more terminals will close.

Yesterday, at the work, i saw an Emirates B777-300ER A6-ENM parked at the cargo ramp, at Paris CDG. But no pax, only Emirates containers unloaded and loaded. Aircraft was using the Emirates flights numbers normaly used for the DXB CDG service. But flight wasn't listed on Paris Aeroports website.
If it is "probably" or if it is "next week" then there is no emergency. It is not your fault, of course, rwandan-flyer ... yet I feel a slight runaway of the problem ... even at Boris or at Donald's, that is to say! But maybe I'm wrong. In the meantime the Covid19 can still clearly travel in the lungs of a passenger ...while it is said that 2/3 of humanity is confined ... strange! :roll: :roll:

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Decisions to close an airport an airport, are made several days in advance, based on airlines capacities and Air traffic forecasts. Most of projections at this time are based on repatriations flights

In addition, by announcing the closure several days in advance, it enable to the last passengers to organize themselves, to back to the home.

Look at the mess, when Morocco has closed its borders, without warning anyone.

Then you have set up a new organization, for the airport. Because even if an airport is closed to the public, there are still staff working (technicians, safety & security staff, pharmacy, nursery, cleaning staff, air traffic controllers, ...). Companies have to make new work planning in order to maintain a presence of staff, based on Airport needs, beacause you can have cargo, Sanitary Evacuation, and sometimes organ transplant flights.

You can't do this in 24 hours, before the airport closure. There are meeting several days before, the closing. There is no manual to close an airport, during a health crisis, like this.
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Still astonishing to see the number of flights and airlines to/from EU, Russia to Thailand and Vietnam, its like a joke on one hand the warnings and fear mongering and then to see this, so many regular repatriation flights?

Interestingly Qatar Airways has now been denied permission to operate to Islamabad after 29 March, looks like someone brought it to Pakistan govt. attention that this airline was planning to fly what appeared to be a regular service under the guise of repatriation throughout the travel ban period of two weeks in the country.

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AMS Amsterdam Schiphol Airport 18L/36R, aka the Aalsmeerbaan, is used as parking area as from 28th March.

https://nieuws.schiphol.nl/extra-parkee ... smeerbaan/

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globetrotter wrote: 28 Mar 2020, 20:48 Still astonishing to see the number of flights and airlines to/from EU, Russia to Thailand and Vietnam, its like a joke on one hand the warnings and fear mongering and then to see this, so many regular repatriation flights?

Interestingly Qatar Airways has now been denied permission to operate to Islamabad after 29 March, looks like someone brought it to Pakistan govt. attention that this airline was planning to fly what appeared to be a regular service under the guise of repatriation throughout the travel ban period of two weeks in the country.
France had over 130 000 people stranded oustide France, last week. it's like, if you have to repatriate the entire population of Anderlecht to Belgium, as quickly as possible. 60 000 are still stranded.

It's probably the biggest air lift in the French history, you can't imagine. You have to find crew, who wants to be on these flights, they are volunteers, because most of them are already in partial unemployment, since last week. You have to talk with authorities to get all authorisation. It's not the same thing to operate a flight, when a country has closed its boarders and its airports and when a country has its borders and airports open


I remmember when Singapore Airlines made its last flight to Paris, 2 weeks ago. They were 60 cabin crew in the plane (vs 20 pax) to fly back to SIN. Some cabin crews were in Paris since 2 days. But the crew who has performed the SIN CDG flight, flown back to SIN on the same aircraft, the same day. They just spent 2 hours at the Airport lounge. The flight to SIN was performed by another crew

Qatar Airways is operating special flights, from some Asians Countries to Paris via Doha, to bring back French people (request from the French Gov)

A7-BEC B777-300ER Denpasar Doha Paris CDG on 28Mar2020: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/a7-bec

A7-AEE A330-300 Kathmandu Doha Paris CDG on 28Mar: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/a7-aee

A7-BEB B777-300ER Denpasar Doha Paris CDG on 29Mar2020: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/a7-beb

And i said, yesterday, some airlines peforming cargo flights with passengers aircraft sill using the same flights numbers, that the commercial flights.
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rwandan-flyer wrote: 29 Mar 2020, 10:02 France had over 130 000 people stranded oustide France, last week. it's like, if you have to repatriate the entire population of Anderlecht to Belgium, as quickly as possible. 60 000 are still stranded.
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Austrian Airlines is operating a Boeing 777-200ER to Sydney to repatriate citizens, airline longest flight ever

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Air Nostrum ceases operations (March 29 2020)

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The company announced that its last flight was Nantes Madrid at seven in the afternoon on Saturday, March 28 2020 and that it would temporarily stop flying until further notice due to restrictions on national and international mobility.



According to its president Carlos Bartomeu, the company that in the last 25 years has operated uninterrupted, 24 hours, 365 days a year, has operated more than two million flights with approximately 90.6 million passengers transported, temporarily ceases operations due to to causes of force majeure, and it does so to guarantee the survival of the company.

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On Monday 30/03 SN is planning a flight to Yaounde, booked as SN1053 in the cargo section of the BRU website. Guess they did the numbers and found a profit on the bottom line.

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