Cathay Pacific is expanding its cold storage facilities at its cargo terminal to allow it to temporarily house more than 8.6 million vaccine doses per day, as the global vaccine distribution challenge begins to ramp up. The terminal’s current capacity is around 7.1 million doses, and a new cold storage room will be added to
Virgin Atlantic’s final Boeing 747 has now left the airline’s fleet after more than 19 years in service with the carrier. The jumbo jet, registration G-VROY, was named Pretty Woman, and took off from London Heathrow earlier this week G-VROY, which has been flying in Virgin’s fleet since 18 June 2001, is headed to Las
The first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has been flown into Singapore from Belgium onboard a Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 freighter. The shipment from Brussels was brought to Singapore onboard flight SQ7979 on Monday evening, and is believed to be the first COVID vaccine shipment to arrive in Asia. Logistics services firm DHL said
Alaska Airlines has come to an agreement with Boeing to restructure the airline’s order to now receive a total of 68 Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft with options for an additional 52 planes. This restructured agreement with Boeing incorporates Alaska’s announcement last month to lease 13 737-9 aircraft. Alaska is scheduled to receive 13 planes in
Air transport in Europe is in the midst of significant disruption as a growing number of countries implement UK flight bans, over fears of a new, mutated coronavirus strain. It is currently believed that the United Kingdom is harbouring a new, more easily transmissible variant of the coronavirus that is spreading faster than previous strains.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has now given pilots and air traffic controllers the green light to receive both the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, following union cries to make the call. The US aviation regulator has specified that pilots and controllers must not fly or conduct safety-related duties for at least 48 hours
