British low cost airline easyJet has said that 727 of its UK-based pilots are at risk of redundancy, equivalent to about one-third of its pilots in the country, union BALPA said in a statement.

Norwegian Air Shuttle, whose financial difficulties have been exacerbated by the coronavirus shutdowns, announced it had canceled an order for 92 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft and 5 Dreamliners, AFP reports.

Starting on Tuesday, a new train service will connect Berlin and Dresden with Prague, Vienna and Graz, restoring the historic Vindobona service. The new connection is a cooperation between Deutsche Bahn (DB), Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) and Czech Railways (CD), news wires reported.

German airline Lufthansa said on Thursday that it would have to cut 22,000 full-time jobs as it forecasts a muted recovery in demand for travel following the coronavirus pandemic, news wires reported. The group will operate about 100 less aircraft after the crisis, leading to "a total of 22,000 fewer full-time positions in the Lufthansa Group, half of them in Germany". The posts make up 16% of the Lufthansa Group's total workforce of 135,000.

The United States will permit Chinese passenger air carriers to operate two flights per week after Beijing said it would ease coronavirus-related restrictions to allow in more foreign carriers, the US Transportation Department said on Friday.

The airline sector, deeply affected by the pandemic measures, cannot fully recover before 2023 and it will face radical structural changes, a global rating agency Moody's said on late Thursday.

Border closures do little to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the European Union’s public health agency said, as EU states weigh lifting some travel restrictions imposed at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe.

The US government late on Friday accused the Chinese government of making it impossible for US airlines to resume service to China and ordered four Chinese air carriers to file flight schedules with the US government.

New direct high-speed services will soon start running from the northern city of Turin to the southern tip of the country, the Local reported. The services will be provided by state railway company Trenitalia and its rival Italo as well.

Berlin's Tegel Airport is unlikely to survive the coronavirus pandemic, after the operator decided at a meeting on Wednesday to close the ageing facility provisionally from 15 June, a city finance ministry spokeswoman said. It is unclear whether the airport will ever reopen.