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Past month has been in reverse thrust

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Air Transport Digest
 
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK WINS NEAL AWARDS
The Aviation Week Network won a Jesse H. Neal Award on April 17 for Best News Coverage. The Neal judges recognized Safety Editor Sean Broderick and his colleagues on the editorial team for their coverage of the Boeing 737 MAX saga in Aviation Daily and Aviation Week & Space Technology and on the Check 6 podcast. The Neal Awards are the business-to-business equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes. 
 
DAILY MEMO
Guy Norris

After spending most of the past decade accelerating production to keep pace with unprecedented airliner delivery rates the engine makers have spent the past month in reverse thrust.
 
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ANALYSIS
Kevin Mitchell

The airline industry is the one industry upon which virtually every other industry depends to service its customers and grow its businesses.
 
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Programs at Carnegie Mellon University and near-countless robotics startups have caused some to call Pittsburgh, “Roboburgh.” During these trying times, an art installation at PIT dedicated to these autonomous ambassadors, has the bots rooting for us all.
 
Take our fun weekly quiz and test your Airplane Spotting skills. See if you can identify these aircraft by sight. Not everyone will be able to name all five.
 
 
EDITORIAL
Karen Walker

There remain many unan swered questions regarding the COVID-19 pandemic’s long-term effects on society, trade and the global air transport industry.
 
ASK THE EDITORS
The Aviation Week Network has been helping guide our industry through major crises’ since World War I. In that spirit, we have launched our new “Ask Aviation Week Editors” feature.

Readers can submit questions to our global team of editors. If we don’t have an answer, we’ll reach out to our large networks of experts to provide one.

Simply submit your questions via this form and look out for our daily feature of questions and answers coming soon.
 
Virgin Airlines will need government aid to survive,  Lessor reduces Boeing 737 MAX orders due to COVID-19, American Airlines seeks service exemptions from CARES Act terms, Hawaiian Airlines exempt from mainland service, and more. A roundup of Aviation Daily news.
 
POLL QUESTION
Yes, they should receive aid like any other airline
Maybe, as long as the aid is just loans
No, Branson can withstand the crisis
 
CAPA ANALYSIS
The news coming out of China suggests that the country may be the first to emerge from the crisis, and with some of its air transport infrastructure left intact. The outlook for others is not so good, and there will be many more months of pain.
 
FEATURED WEBINARS
 
April 22
8:00 EDT / 13:00 BST / 14:00 CEST
The Air Transport Webinar will feature a fireside chat with József Váradi, the founder and CEO of Wizz Air, one of Europe’s fastest-growing airlines and the leading low-cost carrier in Central and Eastern Europe. 

Váradi will talk with ATW Editor-in-Chief Karen Walker, explaining how he was able to rapidly grow a startup while always ensuring its financial strength, and provide his thoughts on how the air transport industry will restart and what changes will be necessary. Audience questions will be welcomed during the webinar.
 
April 24
10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST
As the world grapples with COVID-19, great minds continue work on technologies that could change life as we know it. But will today’s economic troubles and a slowdown in venture capital investment alter the future by reshaping which innovations come out on top?

On April 24, our panel of experts will spend an hour answering your questions about autonomy, electric propulsion, hypersonics, digitization, machine learning and other game-changing technologies.
 
COVID-19 NEWS UPDATES
 
 
We are committed to action and are introducing more robust ways for you to know, predict and connect as we all navigate the crisis and position for the future.
 
 
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