The World of Aviation

Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC) has almost finalised the design of its new C919 narrow-bodied jet, and now awaits final flight testing to be completed by Chinese regulators. COMAC confirmed on Friday that it was nearly the final completion of its C919 jets, the Chinese planemakers answer to the globally popular Airbus A320 and

United Airlines has delivered the first batch of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to the US through Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, as both the drugmaker and airline industry prepare for widespread distribution. The airline completed the first delivery via a charter flight from Brussels to Chicago on Saturday, with an unidentified number of vaccine doses onboard. In

The newly opened Berlin Brandenburg Airport will close off one of its runways and one of its terminals just four weeks after its grand opening, as passenger traffic continues to sit at just 10 per cent of pre-pandemic levels. The closures could extend for up to a year if demand for travel does not rebound,

Volga-Dnepr Airlines has announced the temporary suspension of its Antonov An-124 operations following an uncontained engine failure incident that occurred at Tolmachevo Airport in Novosibirsk. The Russian airline has said that as of 25 November, operations on all eight of its An-124 aircraft will be suspended in order for the planes to have their engines

Airbus has reportedly found new buyers for six aircraft from its A320neo family after major customer AirAsia cancelled its orders in light of COVID-19. While undelivered and cancelled aircraft orders have become something of the norm in the post-COVID aviation environment, the case of tensions between Airbus and AirAsia became unusually public in April when

Canadian regulator Transport Canada has said it will reform the way it validates aircraft, and take a harder look at the relationship between regulators and the manufacturers they oversee, in light of the Boeing 737 MAX fiasco. Transport Canada’s director of civil aviation, Nicholas Robinson, said the regulator would “have to look at the interaction