The Dutch government has given the go-ahead for a €3.4 billion ($4 billion) bailout to help KLM weather the COVID-19 crisis after a pilots union agreed to conditions set by the government, removing a last-minute obstacle to the funding.

With work reduced to documentation, it is not clear how the group is preserving corporate knowledge for a possible restart.

Global business aviation activity was down 15% through most of October compared to a year ago, spurred by leisure demand in the charter market, according to WingX Advance data. 

The Corporate Angel Network raised $275,000 in a virtual auction through sponsorships, auction items and donations, it announced.

American Airlines will expand its current pre-flight COVID-19 testing program in November to include customers headed to a handful of additional Caribbean and Latin American countries, part of an effort to increase options for travelers seeking to avoid onerous quarantines upon arrival. 

Portuguese wet-lease specialist Hi Fly has announced it is phasing out it’s single Airbus A380 at the end of the lease term later this year.

Stuart Beech is an Airbus A380 senior first officer with British Airways who last flew in early April, before the airline stored its A380s at Chateauroux Airport in central France because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Swiss regional carrier Helvetic Airways believes its wet-lease business will increase as airlines come to renew their regional fleets but find themselves short