The World of Aviation

You might not realise it during your flight, but aeroplanes automatically feed data to meteorologists who use it to create weather forecasts.

A substitution of Boeing by the Chinese firm in charge of airliner development has very little chance of becoming a reality for a variety of operational reasons.

Latin America’s largest airline LATAM has today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US.LATAM airlines along with with its affiliates in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and the US, have applied for the voluntary protection.

The company says that it has shed nearly 95 per cent of its service over the course of the COVID-19 crisis, and has been left flying to less than half of previous destinations.

Hong Kong’s Civil Aviation Department (CAD) is investigating a runway incident which occurred over the weekend. According to CAD sources, a FedEx MD-11 freighter aborted landing to avoid a Hong Kong Airlines (HKA) Airbus A330-300, which was beginning its take-off run bound for Bangkok. The incident occurred at the airport’s South Runway (25L) on 22 May,

A passenger travelling from Chennai to Coimbatore aboard low-cost carrier IndiGo has tested positive for coronavirus. The incident, which occurred on 25 May, comes on the evening that domestic flights resumed in India. IndiGo said in a statement that the flight crew has been placed in isolation for 14 days, and all other travellers have