The World of Aviation

The drive for hiring locally acquired pilots is an unconventional move for Cathay, considering they have relied heavily on foreign pilots in the past.

The move follows San Diego International Airport receiving a disturbing call about a crew member who was brutally beaten by a customer on a flight from Sacramento.

The airline’s CEO, Al Baker, told Bloomberg on Monday that if the problem with the aircraft does not resolve quickly, their relationship would be at serious risk.

Host Adam Thorn and reporter Hannah Dowling discuss the global fallout of the Belarus hijacking, and what the next stages of the investigation could look like.

Norse Atlantic Airways, Norway’s newest trans-Atlantic low-cost airline, has come to an agreement with the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) to hire over 700 flight attendants in the US, ahead of its launch later this year. The announcement comes after Norse Atlantic faced backlash in the US House of Representatives and from the Air Line

Willie Walsh, director-general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has said European planemaker Airbus appears too ambitious with its recently-proposed A320 output increase. Last week, Airbus announced it would increase its monthly output for A320 jets from 40 per month, currently, to 45 by the fourth quarter of 2021. Long term, the A320 family