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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released a mandate ordering all Boeing 737 MAX jet operators to conduct additional inspections on its automated flight control system, MCAS. In December 2020, Boeing issued a recommendation that all MAX jets were required to be re-inspected if they had reached 6,000 flight hours, however, the FAA have

European budget airline Ryanair has now officially taken delivery of its long-awaited Boeing 737 MAX 8200, after a near-two-year delay. The 737 MAX jet, donned in Ryanair’s iconic livery, took off from Seattle at 1:00pm PDT and flew nonstop to Dublin in a nine-hour flight. The MAX 8’s published range is normally 3,550 nautical miles,

Cathay Pacific is reportedly working with Airbus in order to certify “reduced crew” single-pilot operations at high-altitude cruise for long-haul flights on the Airbus A350. Under a program named Project Connect, the airline is working with the planemaker to certify the A350 for single-pilot operations in certain circumstances from as soon as 2025, in a

Air Canada announced the initially planned routes for its upcoming Boeing 767-300ER converted freighters, as the airline nears the end of its process to fully convert several of its Boeing 767 passenger jets into dedicated freighters in order to fully participate in global cargo commercial opportunities. When the first converted 767 freighters enter service in

Despite the airline falling victim to what has been labelled by global leaders as a ‘state-backed hijack’, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has said he is confident the airline, and the rest of Europe, will soon return to Belarusian airspace. O’Leary testified before the British Parliament in London on Tuesday regarding the hijacking incident, which saw

Lawmakers in the US and European Union have finally marked an end to their near 17-year long conflict over aircraft subsidies, and introduced a 5-year suspension of Trump-era import tariffs exacerbated tensions. The conflict began in 2004 when the US accused the EU of providing unfair subsidies to European planemaker Airbus, which soon saw the