The World of Aviation

Budget US carrier Frontier Airlines has backtracked on its decision to implement a ‘COVID recovery fee’ on all customer bookings, in order to “avoid misinterpretation”, following heavy public backlash to the policy. The Denver-based airline quietly begun to add a US$1.59 fee on top of all passenger fares in May. The policy went largely unnoticed

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has successfully completed its eighth flight on the Red Planet, as the space agency continues to push the rotorcraft to test the upper extent of its abilities. In its eighth flight, Ingenuity flew further than engineers at NASA’s California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory expected to be possible, as the helicopter again defied

In an open letter to the US Department of Justice, numerous aviation associations have called for heightened policies and “stricter legal enforcement” against unruly passengers onboard, as violent instances continue to become more common. The open letter, addressed on 21 June to Attorney General Merrick Garland, noted increasing concerns over a growing number of unruly

In order to compensate the families of the victims who died in the two fatal 737 MAX crashes of 2018 and 2019, the US Justice Department has opened a US$500 million fund. On Monday, Boeing and the US Justice Department opened the fund as part of a settlement agreed upon in January, giving a total

  Chicago-based United Airlines announced on Tuesday that all crew members travelling to high-risk countries will be required to have the COVID-19 vaccine. Flight attendants will need to be fully inoculated against COVID-19 by 31 July, while pilots have an additional day, until 1 August, to receive their vaccine, in order to perform flights to

The press service of the European Union Council stated on Monday that seven non-EU countries sided with EU members’ decision to ban Belarusian airplanes from their airspace. “The Council Decision decided to strengthen the existing restrictive measures in view of the situation in Belarus by introducing a ban on the overflight of EU airspace and on