Retrospective of 2020 in aviation: plane crashes, coronavirus, canceled flights, bankrupt airlines

By Sorin Rusi Last updated Dec 29 2020

2020 has not been an easy year for aviation and tourism. It started with a tragic plane crash in Iran, continued with a huge pandemic crisis with the new coronavirus, followed by many months of crisis with canceled flights and bankrupt airlines, and the end comes with the first vaccine shipments for COVID -19.

In 2020, aviation has moved from crowded airports and a prosperous period to pandemic survival techniques. At the same time, it went from the crisis of pilots and navigators to massive layoffs due to the crisis generated by the pandemic with the new coronavirus.

But let's review the most important events in aviation and tourism recorded in 2020.

Retrospective of 2020 in aviation

January 2020

08.01.2020 - Plane accident: A Boeing 737 Ukraine International Airlines crashed in Iran
13.01.2020 - Airlines: Bankruptcy of Ernest Airlines
16.01.2020 - Airlines: Launch of Animawings
25.01.2020 - Airplanes: The first flight operated by Boeing 777X
27.01.2020 - Plane accident: A McDonnell Douglas MD-83 Caspian Airlines arrived on a street in Iran

February 2020

04.02.2020 - Airplanes: The 350th Airbus A350 XWB was delivered to Air France
05.02.2020 - Plane accident: a Boeing 737-800 Pegasus aircraft crashed in Istanbul (Spectacular images)
05.02.2020 - Airlines: Air France, KLM, Delta and Virgin Atlantic launch one of the most important partnerships from the world
09.02.2020 - Flights: Speed record on the route New York - London
09.02.2020 - Plane accident: The Boeing 737-500 UTair went off the runway in Usinsk
11.02.2020 - Airlines: The bankruptcy of Air Italy
12.02.2020 - Airlines: Atlasglobal bankruptcy
12.02.2020 - Furtuna Ciara: Dash 8-400 FlyBe landed spectacularly at London-Heathrow
13.02.2020 - Airplanes: Airbus Maveric presentation
14.02.2020 - Airlines: The new Aegean livery
16.02.2020 - Skytrax Awards: TOP 5 best airlines in the world
18.02.2020 - Airplanes: The first ATR 72-600 TAROM was delivered
19.02.2020 - Airports: Syria's Aleppo Airport has been reopened to air passenger traffic
23.02.2020 - Airports: Fire at Otopeni Airport

March 2020

05.03.2020 - Airlines: Flybe went bankrupt
07.03.2020 - Airlines: Aegean Airlines buys 25% of Animawings
11.03.2020 - Triggering the pandemic of coronavirus (Covid-19)
11.03.2020 - Coronavirus: The United States restricts travel to / from Europe
16.03.2020 - Flights: Air Tahiti Nui operated the direct Papeete-Paris flight (the longest flight in the world, with a length of 15715 kilometers)
24.03.2020 - Flights: EL AL operated the Perth - Tel Aviv flight (first commercial flight between Australia and Israel)
28.03.2020 - Airplanes: Qantas retracts Boeing 747-400
29.03.2020 - Plane accident: An aircraft crashed on the runway of Manila airport and caught fire! (video)
29.03.2020 - Flights: Austrian Airlines operated the Vienna - Sydney flight (the longest in the company's history)
29.03.2020 - Flights: SWISS operated the flight Santiago (Chile) - Zurich (Switzerland) (the longest in the company's history)

We can say that the year 2020 was extremely difficult and difficult for aviation and tourism, but not everything was so black, not for everyone.

How was 2020 for you?

5 Comments

Gigi Berlogea says NOTHING years ago

09.02.2020 - Flights: Speed record on the route New York - London

I laughed. Concorde flies at Mach2 speeds on this route in less than 3 hours, but you say that 4 hours and 56 minutes is the record. Interesting.
1. Sorin Rusi says NOTHING years ago
  
  I don't think you read the information carefully. It's a speed record for the Boeing 747-400. But these are details. Stop reading on the diagonal 🙂
Sorin Rusi says NOTHING years ago

All the details are in that article :). For the part with CONCORDE, read this too https://airlinestravel.ro/top-10-cele-mai-rapide-zboruri-comerciale-din-istoria-aviatiei.html
Gigi Berlogea says NOTHING years ago

I don't think I didn't read the information carefully, but the information is not written carefully. It reads: "A Boeing 747-400 from British Airways set a new speed record on Sunday." Do you think it is understood that it is the record for that plane on that route? To me, that's not how to straighten basil somehow. And the rest of the article doesn't understand that either.
Moreover, it is not a record only for 747-400 on the route London - New York but for all subsonic planes. If specified, it was something else entirely. Otherwise, as stated in the article and the fact that it is not specified that it is a record for subsonic aircraft, the information is erroneous. The record for commercial flights between London and New York belongs to Concorde and will remain standing for many years.

But these are details. Please do not write diagonally and assume your mistakes.
1. Sorin Rusi says NOTHING years ago
  
  Mr. Gigi, thank you for your vigilance. We assume when we are wrong. Not the case now, but if you say so, then so be it :). I will complete it so that everything is very clear

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