Air Belgium has announced that it will soon enter into the cargo business with four A330-200 freighter aircraft. The airline has also said it has ambitions to grow this figure to six freighters in total by the end of 2021. While it has not been confirmed, rumors suggest the initial four incoming aircraft may be
For many months now, industry bodies and airlines have pushed for the introduction of ‘health passes’ and ‘vaccine passports’ to aid in the return of post-COVID international travel. The International Air Transport Association has been running trials in the Middle East and Europe of its own ‘Travel Pass’, which stores verified health information, including COVID
American Airlines has warned 13,000 of its staff that they are at risk of furlough when the extended US financial aid package for airline workers expires on 1 April 2021. The airline has blamed a slower-than-expected rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine as well as the slew of newly-introduced international travel restrictions announced off the back
A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter has crashed in the US, killing all three National Guard members on board for the second time in two weeks. Three members of the Idaho Army National Guard were onboard the UH-60 helicopter when it crashed amid a training exercise, just east of Boise, Idaho. All three members onboard the
Kenya’s national carrier Kenya Airways and Canadian MRO company Avianor have reached an agreement to collectively repurpose the airline’s Boeing 787 cabins into cargo transportation. This joint effort will be the first-ever cargo repurpose of this type to be performed on the Boeing 787. The repurposed cabin has been certified to carry up to 16
Singapore Airlines has welcomed nine ex-SilkAir Boeing 737-800 NGs, donned in Singapore’s iconic livery, to its fleet. It comes as SilkAir officially ceased operations on 28 January, finalising the merger of the regional subsidiary back into its parent airline, which has been in the works since May 2018. As such, SIA is due to absorb
