The World of Aviation

This week saw some pretty extreme highs and lows, with two unfortunate plane crash incidents, as well as some major moves in the industry’s recovery prospects. In this episode of the World of Aviation Podcast, host Adam Thorn and reporter Hannah Dowling reveal exactly what we know so far.

Airlines in Europe will soon have to start paying additional taxes for significant contribution to carbon emissions and air pollution, as part of the European Commission’s Green Deal. Proposed early last year, the EU will begin phasing out emission allowances for airlines, which will be officially announced 14 July, according to an unidentified source who

London’s Heathrow Airport will take part in a trial that would see fully vaccinated travellers entering from countries on the UK’s ‘amber list’ be fast-tracked through the airport’s screening process, in a move that hopes to kickstart the UK’s aviation industry. From next week, vaccinated travellers on selected flights from Athens, Los Angeles, Montego Bay

An Antonov An-26 passenger aircraft has crashed in the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far east, with all 28 people on board feared dead, according to local authorities. The Soviet-era twin-engined turboprop aircraft, registered RA-26085, was performing flight PTK-251 from regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to a small village in the peninsula’s north, Palana, when it is said

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has said it will continue to search the ocean floor for the remains of the Boeing 737-200 freighter that crashed and sank off the coast of Hawaii over the weekend, an incident that saw two pilots miraculously saved from the water. In a statement, the NTSB said it

In total, 5.3 million passengers were carried by Ireland’s budget airline last month, compared to just 400,000 during the same month last year.