The world is on pause. Around the globe, 210 countries are battling COVID-19 at different stages of severity. Wuhan, China, where the cases of a “pneumonia with unknown cause” were first
reported to the WHO just over 100 days ago,

The Cargo Crane spreads its wings by deploying parent company Lufthansa’s passenger aircraft which have had their seat pallets removed in order to transport urgent consignments from China
to Europe. The passenger to cargo conversions complement the carrier’s own freighter

… states Steven Verhasselt, VP Commercial Liege Airport in this guest article. Mr. Verhasselt stresses in his contribution that LGG has erected a pop-up handling facility as reaction to
increased freighter flights and steadily rising volumes, in order to cope

Liege Airport’s volume, and especially March’s, was up compared to last year. This is due to additional ad-hoc flights and some clients upgrading their schedules, even if a few flights
were diverted to other airports. And, no, the latter was

Lufthansa has decided to terminate all operational activities of its 2002   incepted, low-cost subsidiary, Germanwings, and to considerably reduce its own passenger fleet as
traveling came to a halt, needing years to reach pre-Covid-19 levels. Meanwhile, talks are taking place

Airlines are increasingly tending to ban short-nosed species such as bulldogs, pugs, dwarf rabbits, or flat-faced Persian cats from air transport. The carriers’ rebuttal is due to
numerous deaths occurred during flight and blamed on the airline by infuriated pet

There is still some good news coming from the aviation industry in these rather gloomy, Covid-19 dominated days. For example, a recent announcement by specialist HiSERV, one of Europe’s
fastest growing ground support equipment (GSE) rental companies. Its electrically-driven ground