The World of Aviation

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has scoffed at current industry predictions that it will take three or more years to see a post-COVID recovery in demand for air travel. Speaking at the World Travel Market Conference, the Irish billionaire and budget airline chief executive instead said he predicted an “enormous” bounce-back in demand and called more

Finland’s flagship airline Finnair, has become the latest E-Jet operator to select AerFin’s BeyondPool component Flight-Hour Agreement (FHA), signing a long-term contract to support its fleet of 12 E190 E-Jet aircraft. BeyondPool is a fully bespoke, comprehensive E-Jet component FHA solution, covering repair, overhaul, pooling and on-site provisioning of E-Jet rotable component inventory and is

British Airways is sending a number of its A380s to Madrid to be stored, as the UK entered its second total lockdown and placed a ban on all non-essential overseas travel. The first to be transferred to Madrid was six-year-old G-XLEF, msn 151, which departed from London as BA9175 at 10:24am local time on Wednesday. 

In this cross-posting with The Conversation, global health research fellow Michael Head explores how airlines will need to work with other transport services and health care workers to safely distribute a COVID-19 vaccine. The excitement that greeted the news of a vaccine candidate that may be highly effective against COVID-19 was indeed something to behold. If

Singapore Airlines Group has announced that it will retire 26 aircraft from its fleet, after it posted a record $1.74 billion loss in the third quarter. SIA claimed the chosen 26 aircraft to be retired are “deemed surplus to requirements”, and do not include the additional seven Boeing 777s being retired amid the liquidation of

Global simulator and flight training provider CAE has released its 2020-2029 Pilot Demand Outlook report, which bullishly suggests the need for 27,000 more pilots by late 2021. This comes despite the global pandemic and subsequent near-total drop off in demand for air travel, which has seen airlines around the world furlough or let go of