The Advertising Standards Authority has told Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) that its “Jab & Go” advert must not run again in its current form. The watchdog received a large number of complaints about the campaign which told customers “vaccines are coming” and encouraged them to book flights in order [read more]
US airframer Boeing has committed to producing aircraft by 2030 that are ready to fly on 100% sustainable fuel to address aviation role in the challenge of climate change. Boeing is pioneering making sustainable jet fuels and has already conducted test flights using 100% sustainable fuels. According to studies, using [read more]
Richard Wood (60) has been fined £3,400 by Caernarfon Magistrates for landing at RAF Valley in Anglesey last year during the Coronavirus lockdown. Wood flew his aircraft, a Pilatus PC12 turboprop (N412MD), from Fairoaks in Surrey to RAF Valley in a bid to “go to the beach” in May last [read more]
The Government of Norway has said it will support and contribute to the capital of Norwegian Air Shuttle just two-months after it refused further support for the struggling carrier. Since then the airline has entered a restructuring process under an “examinership scheme” in Ireland and a “supplementary reconstruction” process in [read more]
Boeing has ended 2020 with a torrid looking order book that saw it have net orders for -1,026 aircraft, no, the minus is not a typo! The Seattle based airframer was impacted largely loss of orders for the Boeing 737 Max which over the year saw a net loss of [read more]
There has only ever been two fatal accidents involving Supersonic Transport (SST) aircraft and in a bizarre twist of fate, despite happening 27 years apart, they happened less than 4 km apart. Two supersonic airlines have been built and flown, The anglo-french designed Concorde and the Soviet Tupolev TU-144, dubbed [read more]
The Airport Operators Association (AOA), which represents UK airports, has warned that airports may have to close without government assistance following the removal of safe travel corridors. Some of airports in the UK have seen an almost complete drop in traffic as a result of the Coronvirus pandemic and even [read more]
Scotland’s Court of Appeal has rejected both grounds of appeal that were lodged by the family of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi following a review found that there may have been a miscarriage of justice. Former Libyan Intelligence Officer al-Megrahi is the only man ever convicted of the 1988 bombing on Pan Am [read more]
Norwegian is to end its trans-Atlantic and Asian long-haul network as part of its restructuring process resulting in over 1,000 job losses at Gatwick Airport. The airline group which has been struggling to weather the pandemic is closing Gatwick based Norwegian Air UK which operated flights to the US, Singapore, [read more]
Due to the global pandemic Airbus found it had a problem with delivering aircraft dipping to just 14 deliveries in April 2020 so in a bid to keep deliveries flowing, Airbus developed an e-delivery system to help speed up aircraft deliveries. The system, which allows customers to receive their aircraft [read more]
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