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• Reality Begins To Sink In For Airline Investors And Employees After United Warns Of 36,000 Looming Layoffs 09 Jul 2020 10:57 Forbes 15,000 United Airlines flight attendants, like these two walking through a terminal at the San ... [+] Francisco International Airport earlier this year, are among the 36,000 United workers targeted for layoffs that could begin Oct. 1. (Yichuan Cao/ …
• Int'l pilots body offers to help with Pak aviation issues 09 Jul 2020 10:36 The News International KARACHI/LAHORE: The International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Association (IFALPA) has written to Prime Minister Imran Khan, suggesting only independent international bodies such as IFALPA, IATA and ICAO can help effectively address the problems …
• Airbus records 196 deliveries, 298 net orders in H1 09 Jul 2020 10:30 Trade Arabia Airbus delivered 36 commercial aircraft in June, representing a slight increase compared to 24 in May and 14 in April and bringing the total for the first half of the year (H1) to 196 deliveries. In H1 2020, Airbus booked a total of 298 net commercial …
• This loophole allowed airline firms to both fire workers and scam $338 million in bailout funds 09 Jul 2020 10:18 Raw Story Three airline industry companies slated to receive $338 million in public money designed to preserve jobs in the hard-hit industry have laid off thousands of workers anyway, according to Treasury disclosure filings and public layoff data. The largest …
• Cairns Airport eyeing two new domestic destinations 09 Jul 2020 10:17 Mercury
• Rolls-Royce warns of 'historic shock' to aviation 09 Jul 2020 09:52 The Telegraph “We started this year with positive momentum and strong liquidity, and acted swiftly to conserve cash and cut costs to protect Rolls-Royce during the pandemic.” Lower demand for its engines knocked £1.1bn off Rolls’s revenues in the first half of the year. …
• Birmingham Airport boost as Flybe routes snapped up by airline 09 Jul 2020 09:31 Birmingham Mail Birmingham Airport has received a boost with the confirmation a number of Flybe routes have been snapped up by a new airline. Blue Islands, a Channel Islands-based carrier, will take over a number of routes which belonged to the doomed airline Flybe. Flybe …
• Viasat eliminates Ka-band speed limits for business aviation in-flight connectivity 09 Jul 2020 09:17 Telecompaper Viasat removed internet speed limits delivered to the aircraft across all of its business aviation Ka-band service plans. In addition, the company doubled its minimum committed internet speed to the aircraft for the same Ka-band service plans. The move, an …
• Integrated testing system for COVID-19 to be trialled at an international airport 09 Jul 2020 09:07 Travel Daily News Technology Vicky Karantzavelou / 09 Jul 2020 09:34 35 TSS has taken the LAMP testing a step further by integrating the results into iWarrant, a secure, smartphone- based, immutable application, providing a digital certificate to be used through check- …
• Coronavirus: Jobs loss warnings, aviation 'ignored' and anger in Leicester 09 Jul 2020 08:23 BBC Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Thursday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST. 1. We can't protect every job, says chancellor The chancellor has warned that the government will not be …