The world’s largest all-electric aircraft is about to take to the skies for the first time in a test flight over Washington state in the US on Thursday. The Cessna Caravan, retrofitted with an electric engine by magniX, is expected to fly for 20-30 minutes. Unlike the experimental aircraft that have dominated electric flight so far,

Boeing has announced that it will start involuntary layoffs in the US, with the first set of almost 7,000 job losses to be communicated this week. Combined with the voluntary layoffs already made, this amounts to nearly 12,300 job cuts. There may also be more to follow, as Boeing has previously said 16,000 job cuts

Latin America’s largest airline LATAM has today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US.LATAM airlines along with with its affiliates in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and the US, have applied for the voluntary protection.

Ryanair chief executive has slammed the German government’s decision to grant €9 billion ($9.88 billion) of aid to Lufthansa.

Christopher Nolan crashed an actual Boeing 747 into a building for his new $225 million film, Tenet. The scene, first shown briefly at the end of the latest trailer, was subsequently confirmed as being real by lead John David Washington: “That was a real plane, and that was a real building that they crashed that

Lufthansa will become a partially state owned airline as it comes to an agreement with the German government over the conditions of its funding under the Economic Stabilisation Fund, or Wirtschaftsstabilisierungsfonds (WSF). The package will provide stabilisation measures and loans to the airline totaling up to €9 billion. The bailout will be biggest for an