Airbus has announced that its teams in Nantes, France, have completed the manufacturing on the very first A321XLR’s Centre Wing Box. The Centre Wing Box (CWB) has now been delivered to Hamburg in Germany, marking the first major component of the newly developed aircraft to be delivered, 16 months after the first metal cuts were
Recordings of the final minutes of the Sriwijaya Air 737 flight that crashed into the Java Sea in January have now been recovered and downloaded, according to Indonesian investigators. The recordings themselves, nor the information they contain, have not yet been released to the public. However, Indonesia’s air accident investigator, the KNKT, has confirmed that
A UK-based start-up airline named flypop has officially signed a lease deal for multiple A330-300 aircraft with Irish aircraft lessor Avolon. The new airline has not announced how many aircraft are covered under the lease agreement, however did say that it engaged in lengthy discussions with a number of lessors before deciding upon Avolon, given
Airlines have been forced to ground dozens of Boeing 737 MAX jets due to newly located production problems resulting in possible electrical faults, according to Boeing and the US Federal Aviation Administration. About 90 737 MAX jets across 16 airlines are reportedly affected by the grounding order, which pertains to certain aircraft that were built
LATAM Airlines Brasil has announced it will this week retire all 11 of its Airbus A350-900s from its fleet by the end of April 2021, as the airline continues to navigate out of insolvency. The move was announced by LATAM Brasil CEO Jerome Cadier, who stated that the move would not result in any immediate
Vietnam may soon welcome vaccinated tourists, as well as citizens stranded abroad and foreign investors, under a proposed vaccine passport program, officials have said. The country has had in place a range of restrictions on its borders since March 2020, in order to curb the spread of COVID-19, however the Vietnamese Ministry of Health (MoH)
