In response to COVID-19, Emirates has adopted comprehensive measures from pre-check-in COVID-19 testing process to enhanced cleaning prodesures of aircrafts after each journey to provide better protection to the health and safety of staff and passengers at the airport and on board.

After performing duties as Deputy Chairman and member of the Supervisory Board of airBaltic for three full terms, Kaspars Briškens as of April 25 will leave the position to focus on other professional challenges.

As demand continues to grow to move essential goods around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, Delta is set to increase its cargo capacity by utilizing storage areas in the passenger cabin.

Boeing today completed another COVID-19 transport mission, using a Boeing Dreamlifter to bring personal protective equipment (PPE) from Hong Kong to the United States. Working in partnership with Prisma Health, Atlas Air Worldwide and Discommon Founder Neil Ferrier, the company transported 1.5 million medical-grade face masks bound for healthcare professionals in South Carolina.

No one could have foreseen what the world is going through as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Trying to compare our days with any earlier period in history seems senseless, as so many parameters have changed drastically, whether you take the Spanish flu, the great depression, the globalization of the past decades or the financial crisis of 2008/9 as your point of reference. And yet - however terrible the daily news - you may want to know what's happening in your field of economic activity, if only as some kind of background to the momentous things happening to us or around us.

South Africa's government and specialists appointed to try to save the state-owned airline have agreed to extend a deadline for trade unions to agree staff severance terms, a letter from the public enterprises department showed on Saturday.

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Saturday it has released US$9.5 billion in additional funds from the Payroll Support Program to U.S. air carriers, bringing to US$12.4 billion the total provided to the airline sector hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

El Al Israel Airlines on Sunday extended its suspension of scheduled passenger flights by a week until May 9 but said it will operate a number of special flights to and from the United States and Europe.

Rwanda's RwandAir will cut the salaries of its lowest paid employees by 8% and by 65% for its top earners as it seeks to survive the coronavirus crisis, an internal memo seen by Reuters on Sunday showed.

Virgin Atlantic is still talking with the British government about a bailout package to cope with the devastating effects of the coronavirus outbreak on travel as well as focusing on private sector funding, a company spokeswoman told Reuters.