Commercial
- With so many aircraft grounded, Finnair ordered 500 wooden “corona chocks” from a local carpentry shop – Bloomberg
- Airbus achieves the world’s first fully automatic refueling contacts – Airbus
- Boeing plans to limit scarce N95 masks for plant workers – Bloomberg
- Employees on 737, 747/767, 777 programs, fab and support teams will resume work as early as April 20 and 21 – Boeing
- Government aid to airlines is getting more expensive by the day – WSJ
Business
- JetNet iQ: Covid-19 could halve 2020 bizjet deliveries – AIN
- Cessna Skycourier completes ground engine tests – AM&D
Airlines
- For those who were holding out hope that US DOT would be rational with minimum service exemptions… hope is gone – DoT
- AirAsia announces resumption of domestic flights subject to approval from authorities – AirAsia
- U.S. carriers aren’t just reducing schedules, they’re flying their smaller jets more too – TPG
- Two private groups consider bid for Virgin Australia – Reuters
- Cathay Pacific to lay off US cabin crew, furlough pilots in Australia and UK – Reuters
Social
- Small plane makes emergency landing on Quebec City highway – CBC
- EAA: Fate of AirVenture 2020 likely to be decided in May –Twitter
UAM
- Aviation regulators, listen: we need drone delivery. Now! – Urban Air Mobility News
- Drone delivery doubled in the last two weeks – Brandon Donnelly
- Covid-19: Zipline pushes the FAA to bring extensive medical drone deliveries to USA – Urban Air Mobility News