Companies across a wide swath of industries have found ways to give back to communities in their time of need amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

OPEC and its allies this weekend agreed to cut production next month by nearly 10 million barrels per day, a move aimed at shoring-up sagging oil prices amid the global response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Flight attendants for American Airlines told Cheddar of frantic attempts to collect as much personal protective equipment as they can despite promises from the carrier to provide masks, gloves, and hand sanitizers for its employees.

A sweeping agreement between OPEC+ hit a roadblock in the late stages of negotiations as Mexico, another non-OPEC member that, like Russia, has partnered the alliance in previous production reductions, refused to accept the proposed cut.

The countries reportedly agreed to a cut of 10 million barrels per day for two months. However, the alleged scale of the cut varied widely, from as little as 2 million barrels a day to as much as 20 million barrels a day.

Just weeks after convincing Congress to allocate $50 billion in taxpayer money to prop up ailing airlines, the commercial airline industry is now fighting rules that require its companies to pay cash refunds to the tens of thousands of passengers whose flights have been canceled as a result of the novel coronavirus.

President Trump, in spite of his well-documented falsehoods, and mischaracterizations, has so far avoided the bipartisan perception of a “credibility gap” that bedeviled President Lyndon B. Johnson during the Vietnam War era.

The Transportation Department on Tuesday finalized guidance requiring airlines to maintain a minimum level of service to be eligible for some $50 billion in federal aid that was included in the $2 trillion relief package that President Trump signed March 2

American Airlines late Monday said that it will begin offering only 13 daily flights from John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia, and Newark Liberty airports — down from 270 flights at the same point last year.

Saudi Arabia has called an emergency virtual meeting of OPEC and its partner Russia for Monday, fueling hopes that the two leading members of the coalition known as OPEC+ will agree to slash oil production in response to swooning global demand.