The World of Aviation

Innovations include contactless lounge entry screens, which BA says allows passengers to “scan their own boarding pass when entering”.

The airline has reportedly been denying passengers from boarding flights back to New Zealand, despite them having appropriate visas for entry into the country.

Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, the newest budget carrier in the UAE, is set to begin its first passenger flights on 14 July, with multiple routes headed for Egypt.

British Airways operated its inaugural revenue flight on Saturday with its Boeing 787-10, a transatlantic service destined for Dallas Fort-Worth.

The US Air Force has unveiled several important countermeasures and strategic priorities to protect unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on deployment. The news comes on the back of an exponential jump in the number of UAVs lost in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. According to data gathered by Oxford-based NGO Drone Wars UK,

Airbus has said it plans to cut 15,000 more jobs, over 10 per cent of its global workforce, as it continues to feel the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic.