Despite ongoing challenges and record-low levels of demand for air travel, aviation industry experts expect around 600,000 more skilled pilots will be required over the next two decades. According to a report by travel industry analysis firm Skift, the global pre-pandemic pilot shortage will return shortly after travel demand plateaus at normal levels, with the
Sikorsky and Boeing have released details of their new advanced helicopter for the US Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft competition, known as FLRAA. The aircraft, named DEFIANT X, will be the fastest, most manoeuvrable and most survivable assault helicopter in history. Combined with the team’s unsurpassed experience in mission systems, training and sustainment, it will
US planemaker Boeing has seen firm orders on its upcoming 777X widebody aircraft fall by nearly 40 per cent to just 191 after introducing stricter accounting rules that better assess the viability of orders. Boeing confirmed that under the new rules, 118 orders for the aircraft are no longer deemed firm. It comes as
Indonesian investigators have sent five components recovered from the Sriwijaya Air 737 that crashed in the Java Sea in January to the US and UK for further examination. Flight SJ 182, a Boeing 737-500, crashed into the Java Sea just minutes after take-off from Jakarta on Saturday, 9 January 2021. Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee
Qatar Airways’ cargo division has officially retired all of its A330-200 freighters in favour of the Boeing 777 freighters it took delivery of in January. The retirement was long planned by the Doha-based airline, and was in fact delayed by two months due to the delayed delivery of its 777Fs. According to Qatar Airways chief
Ryanair topdog Michael O’Leary has expressed optimism that Britons will be free to travel for the European summer season despite government advice to the contrary. O’Leary has praised the UK’s efforts in the vaccine rollout, with around 14 per cent of the country’s population having already received the jab. Speaking to BBC Radio 4, O’Leary
