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Coronavirus has pushed Ecuador to prevent planes from Europe landing. Workers at the Jose Joaquin de Olmedo airport in the city of Guayaquil have parked their cars across the runway. A video footage, filmed from a helicopter, captured the scenes from the air. The vehicles can be seen strewn up and down the ground, leaving […]

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Copenhagen airport is converting two of its three runways as aircraft parking. The operator says it expects an important number of aircraft to be parked at the Danish capital hub “before long”, and that the parking issue is a “pressing challenge”. It will maintain flight access by keeping a single runway, 22L/04R, in operation for […]

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? A Vietnam Airlines A321 has suffered a tire explosion on takeoff at Ho Chi Minh airport on Wednesday morning. The flight number VN920 was due to depart for Phnom Pehn in Cambodia mid-afternoon, but a tire failure meant it couldn’t take off. In an unusual twist, the tire explosion appears to have caused a […]

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Paris CDG airport will close south runways. Paris CDG Airport will close south runways (08LR&26LR) to allow planes to be parked. Paris CDG has 4 runways in total.

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The Australian Government today announced a $A715 million ($423.64 million, €385.34 million, £356 million) package to assist Australian airlines through the COVID-19 crisis. The package will see aviation excise, Airservices Australia charges on domestic operations, and domestic and regional aviation security charges waived by the government. As the fee exemptions are being backdated to 1 […]

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