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Nine Democratic US senators on Tuesday urged the chief executives of 11 major airlines to issue full cash refunds to customers canceling flights during the coronavirus pandemic after Congress approved $25 billion in cash grants for the hard-hit industry. “We believe your company has a moral responsibility to provide real refunds, not travel vouchers, to …

British airlines are asking thousands of staffers whom they’ve temporarily put out of work to lend a hand at special coronavirus hospitals. Virgin Atlantic and easyJet are making the request to workers at the behest of the UK’s National Health Service, which is building three field hospitals to treat coronavirus patients, officials said Monday. The …

A Vietnamese airline seeking business during the coronavirus slowdown is offering passengers a novel perk — an insurance plan that will pay them up to $8,570 if they catch the deadly bug after flying with them. Vietjet’s “Sky Covid Care” insurance is provided free of charge for all eligible passengers — regardless of their age …

American Airlines plans to cut 75 percent of its international flights through May 6 and ground nearly all its widebody fleet. The move comes as carriers across the globe are feeling the pain as travel demand withers because of the coronavirus outbreak and the companies respond by scrapping flights and ditching financial forecasts. Shares of …

Australian airline Qantas is forcing most of its employees to stop working as the coronavirus pandemic threatens to gut its finances. Australia’s flag carrier and its budget subsidiary Jetstar will “stand down” two thirds of their 30,000 employees until at least the end of May to preserve jobs for the long term, the company said …