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Condor partners with DHL Express for B767 cargo operations

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German leisure charter airline Condor will begin operating four of its Boeing 767 passenger aircraft on behalf of worldwide cargo and logistics company DHL Express. The first cargo flights under the partnership took off this week. The Condor aircraft will be handled at Europe’s largest DHL Express hub in Leipzig and will transport shipments on

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MAX update: United lodges new order, China moves on recertification

United Airlines has announced the order of 25 new Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, and moved up the delivery of existing orders, in a win for beleaguered planemaker Boeing. The airline has placed the new order for delivery of 25 of the fuel-efficient MAX jets in 2023, banking on steadily increasing demand for air travel, particularly

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Four engines for long haul – Boeing 747s will continue to serve as key long-haul aircraft for the foreseeable future. (Delta Air Lines)

Delta returns all pilots to ‘active flying status’

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines has informed staff that it will return all of its pilots back to ‘active flying status’ by October this year, as it banks on increasing demand for domestic leisure and business travel. According to an internal memo sent to staff by Delta senior vice president and chief of operations John Laughter,

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MAX victims’ families renew calls for Boeing CEO to testify in court

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The relatives of the victims killed in the second of two fatal 737 MAX crashes have again demanded that top Boeing executives, including the current and former CEOs, testify in front of a Chicago federal court. In a filing to the court, the families of the victims of Ethiopia Airlines flight 302, the second fatal

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Norwegian cuts order cancellation deal with Airbus, stalemate continues with Boeing

Norwegian Air has officially cancelled all 88 narrow-body jets it had on order from Airbus, mostly made up of A320neo and A321LR aircraft. Under the agreement, Airbus will keep all deposits made on the purchased but as-yet undelivered aircraft, and is entitled to a further $850,000 from the embattled airline. A deal was originally struck

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Air Canada Boeing 787-8. (Air Canada)

Comment: ‘Ambiguous’ Canadian hotel quarantine policy could cause harm

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In this cross-posting with The Conversation, health professors from Simon Fraser University discuss how the Canadian government’s ambiguous hotel quarantine policy could cause harm to medical patients looking to travel for care. The coronavirus pandemic has changed how we live, where we go, and who we spend time with. These changes are shaped by government

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