IATA and Airports Council International (ACI) have reiterated pleas that any new biosecurity measures in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic should be supported by scientific evidence and be consistent globally.

Air France has definitively ended Airbus A380 operations, bringing forward an existing plan to phase out the superjumbo following the coronavirus outbreak. 

Singapore will gradually allow passengers to transit through Changi Airport (SIN) again starting from June 2. 

BEIJING—The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is requiring airlines, both Chinese and foreign, to apply for approval of their schedules for international flights from month to month.

It will be a long time before air travel returns to pre-crisis levels, but international services will take far longer than domestic to restore.

Alitalia has said that from June 2 nonstop Rome-New York service will be resumed alongside direct flights to Barcelona and Madrid as it plans to operate 36% more flights in June than in May.

Welcome to Routes’ weekly look at how Europe's aviation market is responding to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, helping you understand the schedule changes and manage the impact so we can navigate through this crisis together.

Betting on a speedy recovery of its aviation sector, Vietnam is said to be going ahead with a VND11 trillion ($472 million) project to build a third terminal (T3) at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN).