The World of Aviation

The world’s first pop-up mobile airport for eVTOL vehicles and drones is set to open its doors in Coventry, UK, by November this year. Korean car manufacturer Hyundai and British company Urban-Air Port have teamed up for the project, which hopes to see similar small, demountable airports specifically catering to electric cars, air taxis and

The US Air Force has awarded global aerospace and defence corporation Northrop Grumman a long-term contract for continued BACN operations, sustainment and support. Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $3.6 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for the ongoing support of the US Air Force’s Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN). The prime will be tasked with delivering

Dublin-based SMBC Aviation Capital announced a slew of January deliveries, including an Airbus A320neo donned with a duckling tail to JetSMART. The lessor delivered the A320neo (MSN 10069) equipped with two PW1100G engines to the South American low-cost carrier earlier this week. Notably, the plane donned a yellow duckling on its tail fin. See it

US airlines have pushed back against the potential Biden administration policy that would see pre-flight COVID-19 testing before all domestic flights. The Biden administration said earlier this week it was “actively looking” into mimicking current overseas travel risk management measures with domestic pre-flight COVID-19 testing, in order to get the country’s spread of the virus

More than half of the world’s pilots are not currently active and flying amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, while those who remain working feel less valued by their employers, a survey has found. A survey of nearly 2,600 pilots around the world, conducted by GOOSE Recruitment and FlightGlobal, found that only 43 per cent of

  Boeing has reported a record annual loss of US$12 billion, as well as a hefty US$6.5 billion hit on its 777X program, now delayed an additional three years. The company’s net loss rose to US$8.44 billion in the fourth quarter ending 31 December, from US$1.01 billion a year earlier, taking its full-year loss to