With coronavirus taking an increasing toll in Brazil, the country’s airlines have had to follow their peers around the world and ground progressively more aircraft.
De Havilland Aircraft of Canada expanded its “simplified package freighter” conversion program to its legacy Dash 8s, announcing Transport Canada approval and a launch customer.
SIA Engineering (SIAEC) has remained profitable, even as mass aircraft groundings and disruptions plague the Singapore air hub amid the COVID-19 crisis.
A jump in retirements of older passenger aircraft linked to the coronavirus pandemic will boost not just legacy conversion programs such as the Boeing 767, but also emerging ones, including the Airbus A321, Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) president Rich Corrado said.