As initiated and facilitated by the Government of Srilanka, SriLankan Airlines, brought back 829 Sri Lankans who were stranded in India. They have been arriving in the country, as Sri Lanka was going into 48-hour quarantine curfew, since March 20 to 22, 2020. The Airline…

Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) handled 576,000 passengers and 12,115 flight movements in March 2020, a year-on-year decrease of 91 per cent and 67 per cent, respectively. Cargo throughput dropped 12.4 per cent to 378,000 tonnes when compared to the same month last year. As…

Hahn Air has regrouped the departments supporting partner airlines, travel agencies and GDS into new divisions which will include commercial, operations, communications and marketing as well as IT support. The newly formed commercial division will be headed by Alexander Proschka who has been promoted to…

IATA and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) are jointly calling on governments to take urgent measures to facilitate crew change flights for seafarers. Due to the COVID19 restrictions, seafarers are having to extend their service onboard ships after many months at sea, unable to…

Etihad Airways has announced that if current UAE government-imposed travel restrictions are lifted, it plans to operate a reduced network of scheduled passenger services from May 1 to June 30, with the aim of gradually returning to a fuller schedule as and when the global…

IATA is offering free access to online training courses for up to 5,000 aviation workers as part of its efforts to help the industry get through the COVID19 crisis. Current employees, or those who wish to become a part of the aviation or related industries,…

As of today, Vietjet will commence operations with regular daily passenger flights and cargo flights to supply essential commodities and necessities in Vietnam. Following the decision of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV), Vietjet will operate one daily return flight between Hanoi and Da…

To help stranded foreigners return to their home countries during these challenging times, GVK-MIAL’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) evacuated over 3700 passengers with 20 repatriation flights between 25th March – 14th April 2020. Working side-by-side with the aviation community and the respective embassies,…

Qatar Airways has signed an US$ 850 million financing deal with Standard Chartered. The deal involves seven of Qatar Airways' Boeing 787-9 aircraft. Akbar Al Baker, Chief Executive, Qatar Airways Group said, “I am grateful to Standard Chartered for their continued support to Qatar Airways.…

IATA's updated analysis of how the COVID19 crisis will impact airline passenger revenues suggests that a drop of US$314 billion in 2020, a 55 per cent decline when compared to 2019, is now more likely. On 24 March IATA estimated US$252 billion in lost revenues…