The World of Aviation

US airlines and industry groups are pushing the Biden administration to introduce a uniform approach to verifying COVID vaccination and testing status, in hopes of reinvigorating demand for air travel. The global airline industry has spent a number of months testing and investing in ‘health passport’ technologies that would contain such verified health information, letting

Two European low-cost carriers have announced they will expand their operations with the introduction of new routes and new bases, as they await pent-up demand for air travel over the upcoming summer season. Hungary-based low-cost carrier Wizz Air has announced the addition of its 42nd global base, in Palermo, Sicily. From June 2021, the airline

Boeing announced on Tuesday that it had received 82 orders for new aircraft in February, and completed 22 deliveries. February also brought the cancellation or conversion of 51 aircraft orders, with net cancellations coming in at 31 jets. A majority of these cancellations were made up of embattled Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, with WestJet, Copa

Engine-maker General Electric is nearing a US$30 billion-plus deal to combine its aircraft leasing business with Irish aircraft lessor AerCap Holdings, according to sources familiar with the matter. It comes as the latest move in a string of decisions by the industrial conglomerate to restructure its once-sprawling operations. Though details of how the deal would

The world’s busiest international passenger airport, Dubai International Airport, has begun using iris scanners as a contact-free method of identity verification on all passengers, according to a report by the Associated Press. While the airport has been testing such biometric technology as a means of passenger identification for many months, the program has been hurried

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised that even those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 should continue to avoid non-essential travel. The US airline industry has pushed back on the guidelines, and reiterated that air travel poses very little threat of COVID transmission due to the air filters used onboard commercial