Global air traffic is expected to return to pre-pandemic levels by June of this year, around a year ahead of original predictions, according to airliner leasing specialist Avolon. The Dublin, Ireland-based operation says the sector is set to thrive in 2023 after 2022 saw a 70% recovery of air travel [read more]
Airbus UpNext has begun testing next-level pilot assistant technology on an Airbus A350-1000 aircraft. The wholly-owned Airbus subsidiary is testing a system known as Dragonfly which includes the ability to autonomously divert the aircraft in flight with automatic landing and taxi ability. Airbus says that the technologies were able to [read more]
US aerospace giant Boeing has released the figures for its commercial aircraft orders and deliveries in 2022 showing a positive recovery for the singe-aisle 737 Max product line. In total the company received orders for 561 Boeing 737 Max family aircraft including several new customers including ANA, Delta Air Lines, [read more]
Flights are now resuming after a computer outage with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) caused a nationwide grounding of flights from US airports. American Airlines and United both confirmed to passengers waiting for flights that there was a nationwide system outage and as a result, they have delayed departures. American [read more]
Low-cost airline Wizz Air has confirmed that it will be closing its base at Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) after a year of operations plagued by cancellations, failures and bad press. The two winter routes to Milan and Bucharest will end earlier than planned on 25th January and all further operations from [read more]
Just minutes after completing the first successful launch of a satellite from the UK, news has emerged that an anomaly may have prevented Launcher One from reaching orbit. No details have been confirmed yet but Virgin Orbit tweeted “We appear to have an anomaly that has prevented us from reaching [read more]
Virgin Orbit made history tonight when the rocket “Launcher One” was successfully dropped from its Boeing 747-400 mothership over the Atlantic. The Boeing 747 Cosmic Girl N744VG (formerly known as G-VWOW with Virgin Atlantic) swapped passengers for rockets as it left Spaceport Cornwall, Newquay just after 10 pm this evening. [read more]
Low-cost US carrier Jetblue has confirmed it is launching an all-daylight service between London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) and New York JFK (JFK/KJFK) starting from 25th March 2023. The new flight gives the option for passengers to arrive in the UK from New York on the same day with the 08:30(local time) [read more]
Flights over the festive period from the UK were 49% higher than in the previous period highlighting the continued post-pandemic revival of air travel. According to data from aviation analytics firm Cirium 28,508 flights departed UK airports between the 21st of December 2022 and the 4th of January 2023. Christmas Day itself [read more]
BT Group’s Digital Incubation Team is entering into a deal with Drone safety specialist Altitude Angel with the aim of making a drone superhighway in the UK. The £5m investment will create a unified traffic management system (UTM) known as ARROW. A UTM is the software platform and core infrastructure [read more]
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