The World of Aviation

Welcome to 2021: a year marked by trouble at Boeing, border closures and major aircraft tragedies. This week on the World of Aviation Podcast, host Adam Thorn and guests Hannah Dowling and Christian “Boo” Boucousis discuss a start to the year that seems worryingly familiar. In particular, the team talks in-depth about Boeing’s $2.5 billion 737 MAX

Health authorities in Germany have sent around 500 Airbus staff into quarantine, after 21 workers from its Hamburg factory tested positive for the new strain of COVID-19. The European planemaker said the affected staff have been asked to stay at home as a precautionary measure, and it is currently determining how the disruption will impact

United Airlines might make the COVID-19 vaccine a mandatory requirement for employees, according to CEO Scott Kirby. “I think the right thing to do is for United Airlines, and for other companies, to require the vaccines and to make them mandatory,” Kirby said. “If others go along and are willing to start to mandate vaccines,

Indonesian investigators have flagged a potential pre-existing issue with the autothrottle system as a potential contributing factor to the Sriwijaya Air 737-500 crash earlier this month. Flight SJ 182, a Boeing 737-500, crashed into the Java Sea just minutes after take-off from Jakarta on Saturday, 9 January 2021. According to a Wall Street Journal report,

Indonesian authorities announced on Thursday they will halt their search for further victims of the Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea earlier this month. However, divers will continue to search for the plane’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR), which investigators believe could be key to understanding the cause of the fatal crash, which

Dutch flag carrier KLM has announced that it would suspend all its long-haul flights, including some European routes from 22 January, in response to new testing requirements implemented by the Dutch government. On Wednesday, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced a slew of new additional measures in the fight against the coronavirus, including a temporary