Swissport, dnata, Worldwide Flight Services and Menzies, which oversee more than 90% of cargo handling at UK airports, have written to Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, warning that the ground handling industry is close to collapse.

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Menzies Aviation has halved its global workforce, laying off 17,500 staff.

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Airbus, Heathrow Airport and Rolls-Royce have called on the UK government to provide financial assistance to Virgin Atlantic Airways.

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Scandinavian Airlines, the flag carrier for Norway, Denmark and Sweden, is to receive financial assistance from the governments of all three nations. Denmark and Sweden have each pledged $300m, while the carrier is set to benefit from a quarter of Norway's 6bn krone ($582m) industry-wide rescue package.

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Delta Air Lines, the world's largest carrier by revenue, has had its credit rating downgraded to junk' status by Standard & Poor's. The carrier is understood to have stored more than 600 airliners due to COVID-19.

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Rather than lay off parts of its workforce, KLM has reduced the hours of all staff in what its chief executive, Pieter Elbers, describes as "a more balanced approach."

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International Consolidated Airlines Group's (IAG) cash costs run at around €60m (S65m) a day.

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