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The first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has been flown into Singapore from Belgium onboard a Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 freighter. The shipment from Brussels was brought to Singapore onboard flight SQ7979 on Monday evening, and is believed to be the first COVID vaccine shipment to arrive in Asia. Logistics services firm DHL said

Alaska Airlines has come to an agreement with Boeing to restructure the airline’s order to now receive a total of 68 Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft with options for an additional 52 planes. This restructured agreement with Boeing incorporates Alaska’s announcement last month to lease 13 737-9 aircraft. Alaska is scheduled to receive 13 planes in

Air transport in Europe is in the midst of significant disruption as a growing number of countries implement UK flight bans, over fears of a new, mutated coronavirus strain. It is currently believed that the United Kingdom is harbouring a new, more easily transmissible variant of the coronavirus that is spreading faster than previous strains.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has now given pilots and air traffic controllers the green light to receive both the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, following union cries to make the call. The US aviation regulator has specified that pilots and controllers must not fly or conduct safety-related duties for at least 48 hours

United Airlines has announced it will return the Boeing 737 MAX to commercial service from 11 February, with regularly scheduled flights from its hubs in both Denver and Houston. The airline has said it will continue to operate non-MAX aircraft along the same routes, should passengers prefer not to travel onboard the recently re-certified 737

In this cross-posting with The Conversation, aerospace engineering professor Iain Boyd discusses the rise and fall of supersonic flight, and the possible bright future it might just have. Flying faster than the speed of sound still sounds futuristic for regular people, more than 15 years after the last commercial supersonic flights ended. The planes that