Emirates announced on Monday it had started offering COVID-19 vaccines to its frontline employees, including pilots and cabin crew, while American Airlines has taken a different route. The airline has made both the Pfizer-BoNTech vaccine, and a second vaccine developed by Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm, to all Dubai-based employees. Both vaccines are currently already approved
Ukraine has stated it may resume production of the unique Antonov-74 aircraft after nearly 17 years, in order to supply the plane to the country’s armed forces. The Soviet-era An-74 is a short-to-medium range light transport cargo and passenger aircraft, which made its debut flight in 1979. A total of 62 An-74 aircraft were produced
Divers in Indonesia have reportedly found the casing of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737 that crashed into the Java Sea last week. However, authorities are still searching for the device’s memory unit, according to an Indonesian Navy officer, which is hoped to contain vital information on the cause of
A Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane was seized on behalf of its lessor minutes before its scheduled departure from Kuala Lumpur, following an ongoing dispute. Passengers were left stranded at Kuala Lumpur when the PIA Boeing 777 was seized by Malaysian authorities on behalf of its lessor, mere minutes before its scheduled departure, and already
The US Federal Aviation Administration has finalised provisions around the use of fully automated drones, giving appropriate permissions to the first US company to do so. According to American Robotics, the first US company to be approved to utilise fully automated drones to fly “over people”, the first commercial use of said drones will be
Norwegian Air has announced it will no longer perform its famed long-haul budget routes, with sources suggesting the airline will axe all 37 of its Boeing 787 Dreamliners as the company navigates out of insolvency. The airline, which filed for bankruptcy protections in November 2020, has said it will no longer be performing low-cost intercontinental
