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Must elevate the safety messaging to the very top

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Air Transport Digest
EDITORIAL
 
Karen Walker

A huge hole in airline efforts to reassure passengers and crews that flying is safe was exposed this week during a US Senate hearing on the pandemic.
 
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Ben Goldstein

Aeromexico became the latest Latin American airline to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S., as the region’s carriers struggle to remain solvent in the absence of federal government support.
 
 
Alan Dron

UK ULCC easyJet plans to make more than 700 pilots redundant and close three of its British bases as it downsizes in the face of the novel coronavirus crisis.
 
Victoria Moores

Lufthansa has teamed up with two medical companies to offer COVID-19 testing at its Frankfurt and Munich hubs, which may avoid 14-day quarantine requirements.
 
ASK THE EDITORS
Karen Walker

You will see far more contactless systems at airports next time you fly. Airlines will urge passengers to check in remotely, use their mobile phone apps for their boarding passes and print their own checked-bag tags at home.
The Aviation Week Network invites our readers to submit questions to our editors and analysts. We’ll answer them, and if we can’t we’ll reach out to our wide network of experts for advice. Read some of the answers to recent questions from readers.
 
AWIN ANALYSIS
From Ryanair operating 1,000 daily flights as European activity restarts to U.S. DOT report underscores MAX certification shortcomings and more. A roundup of Aviation Daily news.
 
POLL QUESTION
  • Yes, demand will plummet if viral outbreaks return
  • No, stringent safety measures have been implemented
  • Maybe, some regions are better at managing the pandemic than others
 
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CAPA ANALYSIS
ACI, the organisation representing many of the world’s airports, has put out a definitive statement on its position regarding governmental support for airports.
 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
 
Helen Massy-Beresford

European Union member states have set out a list of countries from which they will gradually lift COVID-19 restrictions on non-essential travel, including Australia, Canada, South Korea and China—as long as it reciprocates—but excluding the U.S.
 

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