Norwegian competition prompts US approve Aer Lingus join AJBA The United States Department of Transportation (DoT) announced tentatively approving Aer Lingus to join the oneworld alliance’s Atlantic… ByRytis BeresneviciusDecember 22, 2020
Loyal Wingman completes autonomous high-speed taxi test The Royal Air Force (RAAF) and Boeing completed the first high-speed taxi test of the Loyal Wingman, the… ByGabriele PetrauskaiteDecember 21, 2020
SIA delivers first vaccine shipment to Singapore Singapore became the first country in Asia to receive the delivery of Pfizer vaccine. Singapore Airlines (SIA1) (SINGY) (SIA)… ByElžbieta VišnevskytėDecember 21, 2020
Saudi Arabia bans international flights, land & seaport operations Saudi Arabia decided to ban all international flights as well as suspend entry to the country via all… ByGabriele PetrauskaiteDecember 21, 2020
After 9-month pause Emirates Airlines to return A380 to Brazil operations In response to the expected increase in the demand for seasonal air travel to Brazil in the early… ByGabriele PetrauskaiteDecember 21, 2020
Ryanair flight FR4371 diverts due to medical emergency A Ryanair flight that was on its way from Seville, Spain to Manchester, United Kingdom, was forced to… ByRytis BeresneviciusDecember 21, 2020
Multiple countries ban UK flights due to new virus mutation A new, more infectious strain of the COVID-19 virus forced multiple governments worldwide to impose temporal flight bans… ByGabriele PetrauskaiteDecember 21, 2020
Qatar Emiri Air Force performs impressive “elephant walk” Very popular in the United States, the exercise known as the “elephant walk” consists of rolling a large… ByClément CharpentreauDecember 17, 2020
AirBridgeCargo’s first B777 freighter starts cargo services Russia’s cargo airline AirBridgeCargo, which is the part of Volga-Dnepr Group, starts cargo carriage services with its first… ByVytė KlišauskaitėDecember 17, 2020
What is COMAC C939 and when will it fly? Chinese manufacturer COMAC has already tested the C919 and started working on the CR929. The next logical step… ByValius VenckunasDecember 16, 2020
Turkish Air Force capability threatened by US sanctions After the dispute between Turkey and the United States about the procurement of the Russian S-400 missile system,… ByClément CharpentreauDecember 16, 2020
Oman Air flight WY655 declares emergency and diverts A Boeing 737-900ER of Oman Air, registration A4O-BY, was carrying out flight WY655 from Muscat International Airport (MCT),… ByClément CharpentreauDecember 16, 2020
TBT: First submarine to be sunk by an aircraft During the First World War, two engineering wonders were used for the first time on a large scale:… ByClément CharpentreauDecember 15, 2020
Irkut MC-21 conducted first flight with Russian PD-14 engines The first prototype of the new Russian airliner MC-21-300 fitted with Aviadvigatel PD-14 engines successfully finished its first… ByValius VenckunasDecember 15, 2020
Emirates Premium Economy: no better time for introduction? The long-awaited new product on Emirates aircraft, a Premium Economy cabin, is finally here. The cabin was teased… ByRytis BeresneviciusDecember 14, 2020
First shipments of Pfizer’s vaccine land in Canada On December 13, 2020, the first batches of COVID-19 vaccines arrived at Mirabel International Airport in Montreal, Canada. “The… ByElžbieta VišnevskytėDecember 14, 2020
Experts: Ryanair’s debt to triple to €1.2 billion, recovery in 2022 Irish low-cost airline Ryanair would face three times higher debt by the end of the financial year of… ByGabriele PetrauskaiteDecember 14, 2020
Top 10 most produced jet airliners Some passenger aircraft were more popular than others, and more of them were manufactured. But which jet airliners… ByValius VenckunasDecember 11, 2020