Last week saw Iran release its final report into the passenger jet it accidentally shot down in January last year, while the number of US domestic travellers hit its highest level since March 2020, a key sign that confidence is returning to the market. In this episode of the World of Aviation Podcast, host Adam
The last-ever Airbus A380 to roll off the production line has completed its first flight, 16 years after the model made its debut.
Boeing has found another manufacturing fault in some of its 787 Dreamliners, and will begin carrying out inspections on flight deck windows. The embattled US planemaker has said it has already begun testing the cockpit windows in a limited batch of aircraft, after it learned that a supplier had altered its production process. As such,
Canada hopes to introduce new protocols and safeguards to air incident investigations, following its long-standing criticism against Iran’s investigation of the Ukrainian airliner downed by Iranian forces in January 2020. Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 was shot down on 8 January 2020 by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards shortly after take-off over Tehran, in an incident labelled
Irish aircraft lessor AerCap’s acquisition of rival GECAS could reduce competition in the market and make aircraft leasing more expensive, the IATA has warned. Alexandre de Juniac, director general of the International Air Transport Association, has shared his concerns over the recently announced US$30 billion acquisition of engine maker General Electric’s aircraft leasing unit GECAS
Canadian authorities have criticised the final report released by Iran’s civil aviation body into the Ukranian passenger plane that was accidentally shot down over Tehran on 8 January 2020. Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 was shot down by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards shortly after take-off over Tehran, in an incident labelled by Iranian authorities as a
