Morning Call: Thursday 9 July 2020

Commercial

• Rolls-Royce burns through 3 bln pounds – Reuters
• Air Lease Corporation update on deliveries, sales and new significant financing occurring in the 2Q20 – ALC
• Foreign aircrews, including those for American and United, refusing to fly to Hong Kong over mandatory COVID-19 testing concerns – SCMP

General Aviation

• Jet Linx acquires Meridian – BI

Airline

• How many African airlines will survive COVID? – URMedium
• Virgin bondholders ‘warned’ – AFR
• United Airlines expects “employee separation charges” of roughly $300m in 2Q20 – TPG
• United warns 36,000 employees on furlough – CNBC
  
• Tata Sons in talks to buy out AirAsia India stake at steep discount – Reuters
• American Airlines Abandons Unprofitable International Routes – MotleyFool

Social

• “I lost the entire month of June to COVID” – APA
• ‘A Piece of Cake” – YouTube

UAM

• Introducing The Mindboggling Flying Taxis Of The Future – Forbes
• AIRCRAFT SPOTLIGHT: MONMOUTH AREA FLYING CLUB LOOKS AT ADDING A DRONE TO ITS FLEET   – AOPA Pilot
• DroneUp partners with Virginia’s CIT for last-mile critical drone delivery trials – Urban Air Mobility News

Addison Schonland

Co-Founder AirInsight. My previous life includes stints at Shell South Africa, CIC Research, and PA Consulting. Got bitten by the aviation bug and ended up an Avgeek. Then the data bug got me, making me a curious Avgeek seeking data-driven logic. Also, I appreciate conversations with smart people from whom I learn so much. Summary: I am very fortunate to work with and converse with great people.

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