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Ryanair expects “the majority” of its fleet will be grounded while Finnair and SAS are among the latest airlines to stop almost all flights. Air France is also grounding its entire Airbus A380 fleet and KLM its entire Boeing 747 fleet.

Local services account for 88% of the carrier’s passengers and the airline said demand is rising on some of its domestic routes.

US Department of Transportation rejection puts the planned partnership in doubt.

Demand for long-haul travel grounds to a near halt.

Australia’s main international gateways are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

Rwanda’s government recently agreed to sell a 49% stake in national carrier Rwandair to help boost connectivity to the Central African country.

This week: Etihad Airways is launching a new service to Vienna; leisure carrier Condor is introducing long-haul flights from Dusseldorf; and Eastern Airways is once again operating its own scheduled network of routes.

The LCC continues to seek out new routes despite the 737 grounding and COVID-19 pandemic.

Passenger figures for February show how COVID-19 is affecting the country.

Airlines are being tasked with helping enforce President Donald Trump’s new policy.

Asunción, the capital and largest city of Paraguay, is the country’s main gateway with LATAM Airlines Group the largest airline in the market.

Singapore Changi Airport reports dramatic drops in passenger numbers.

Abu Dhabi airline is confident China demand will recover by summer.

Carriers on both sides of the Atlantic are assessing the potential impact of the temporary travel restrictions to the US from more than two-dozen European countries in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.

Kuwait Airways and Jazeera Airways, both based at KWI, will be affected most.

Fifteen airports and five destinations have been shortlisted in this year’s Routes Europe Awards.

The launch of JC International Airlines, Lanmei Airlines and Cambodia Airways in recent years is fuelling rapid growth of the country’s aviation market.

United Airlines is operating under planning assumptions that president Scott Kirby called “much more severe than anything we’ve seen anyone else publish.”

China is next week set to welcome back a further 2 million departure seats to its network as the first market to be affected by COVID-19 coronavirus continues to recover.

Lyon Airport's CCO Pierre Grosmaire explains more about the airport's growth in recent years, having increased passenger numbers from 8.7 million in 2015 to 11.7 million in 2019.

US airlines merged and restructured to be able to withstand an extraneous shock such as COVID-19, Doug Parker says.

Norway's mature domestic market means the airline is looking abroad for expansion.

Hybrid carrier airBaltic’s strong return to growth since 2016 is helping to drive traffic in the Baltic country.

La Aurora International Airport serves Guatemala City, the capital of Guatemala, with Avianca the largest provider of seat capacity in the country’s market.

Norwegian and Air France are altering their networks in response to the demand slump caused by the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus.