The World of Aviation

Boeing has officially announced that it will move the rest of its 787 Dreamliner production from its Seattle-based Everett plant to its factory in South Carolina by mid-2021. The cost-cutting move casts doubt on the future of Boeing’s iconic Everett plant, which was built in 1967 to house the 747 program. Since then, the factory

The US Transportation Department has fined UAE flag carrier Emirates $400,000 for flights that went through Iranian airspace amid a period of heightened political tensions between the US and Iran last year. The fine has been served on the basis that Emirates, which has a codeshare agreement with New York-based airline JetBlue Airways, flew through

The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the aviation sector could wipe out as many as 46 million jobs around the world, according to new research by the Air Transport Action Group. A Geneva-based aviation coalition, the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) has published a report that shows that more than half of the 88

Airlines will need to meet a “harmonised” standard of health measures as air travel returns following the global pandemic, according to the CEO of Etihad Airways. “I can see that wellness certification will become a necessary function of how the whole of the world comes back to flying,” Tony Douglas told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble last

France’s civil aviation investigation unit, BEA, has called for a review of the design and maintenance of titanium alloy engine parts on Airbus A380s, following an engine blowout three years ago. The BEA has said it recovered a fragment of the blown-out Engine Alliance engine, which showed tiny fatigue cracks in one of its titanium

A French fighter jet broke the sound barrier above Paris on Wednesday, as it scrambled to assist two commercial airliners that had both lost contact with air traffic control. The warplane had climbed to around 34,000 feet when it was permitted to break the sound barrier, with the noise amplified thanks to cloud cover. The