Boeing announced on Tuesday that it had received 82 orders for new aircraft in February, and completed 22 deliveries. February also brought the cancellation or conversion of 51 aircraft orders, with net cancellations coming in at 31 jets. A majority of these cancellations were made up of embattled Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, with WestJet, Copa
Engine-maker General Electric is nearing a US$30 billion-plus deal to combine its aircraft leasing business with Irish aircraft lessor AerCap Holdings, according to sources familiar with the matter. It comes as the latest move in a string of decisions by the industrial conglomerate to restructure its once-sprawling operations. Though details of how the deal would
The world’s busiest international passenger airport, Dubai International Airport, has begun using iris scanners as a contact-free method of identity verification on all passengers, according to a report by the Associated Press. While the airport has been testing such biometric technology as a means of passenger identification for many months, the program has been hurried
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised that even those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 should continue to avoid non-essential travel. The US airline industry has pushed back on the guidelines, and reiterated that air travel poses very little threat of COVID transmission due to the air filters used onboard commercial
Here’s to a good news week! In this episode of the World of Aviation Podcast, host Adam Thorn and reporter Hannah Dowling delve into the current status of aviation’s post-crisis recovery, as well as the updated information on the United 777 that dropped engine parts over Colorado. Then the team discusses the FAA’s new testing
In this cross-posting with The Conversation, aviation historian Janet Bednarek explores how people may end up living in airports, and why it happens more often than you might think. In January, local authorities arrested a 36-year-old man named Aditya Singh after he had spent three months living at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Since October, he
