The World of Aviation

Boeing has announced it has fired 65 employees in the last 10 months over racist, discriminatory or otherwise hateful conduct, as shareholders push for greater accountability following recent social justice movements. CEO Dave Calhoun said that Boeing has taken a “zero-tolerance approach to behaviour that is contrary to our values”. “There is no place for

A branch of one of the US’ most prominent flight attendant unions has called out aviation veteran David Neeleman’s latest start-up airline venture over its hiring policy. Neeleman’s latest airline, Breeze, has reportedly teamed up with Utah Valley University in order to recruit a team of solely junior part-time flight attendants, ahead of the carrier’s

London City Airport revealed on Friday that it has quietly rolled out the use of virtual control tower technologies, with all air traffic operations being controlled remotely, 145 kilometres away. London City, the first international airport to introduce remote air traffic control operations, announced that it has successfully had the systems in place and operational

The US Federal Aviation Administration has launched an audit into Boeing’s internal processes, particularly in relation to minor design changes on its aircraft. The decision was made off the back of the ongoing 737 MAX electrical fault problems, that now impacts 109 MAX aircraft around the globe, 71 of which are based in the US.

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter was unable to take off for its fourth test flight on Mars on Thursday due to technical difficulties, however NASA is confident the fourth flight can be completed on Friday. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in southern California, data received back from Ingenuity on Thursday morning shows it did not

The strong result was driven by new orders for 39 new commercial aircraft orders and 40 helicopters, including two Super Puma Family rotorcraft and 1 H160.