Aircraft
Airbus Pauses Most Production Activity in Spain
The move by Airbus to close its Spanish plants follows a government order to cease all non-essential activities across the country.

Airbus will pause all but what the Spanish government considers essential activities at its plants across Spain until at least April 9, the European airframer announced Monday. The move follows a March 29 government announcement of new measures to restrict all non-essential activities across the country in an effort to combat the Covid-19 virus. Spain over the weekend joined the U.S. and Italy among the countries whose Covid-19 case total exceeds that of China. It ranks second in the world behind Italy in the number of deaths reported due to the virus.