The World of Aviation

Low-cost operator French Bee has carried out the world’s longest non-stop domestic commercial flight between Tahiti-Faa’a, French Polynesia and Paris Orly with an Airbus A350-900.

The UK’s Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group has confirmed that it has withdrawn from a project to convert five Boeing 737NGs into E-7A Wedgetail surveillance platforms for the Royal Air Force, saying the project was commercially unviable. The UK Ministry of Defence in March 2019 signed a £1.5 billion ($1.8 billion) contract with Boeing to

Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority has confirmed 97 people died, and two survived, when an A320 crashed into a crowded residential district in Karachi on Friday after twice trying to land at the airport.

Fifty firefighters are currently tackling a huge blaze that broke out at Bombardier’s Belfast docklands factory on Sunday night.

The Dutch government’s acquisition of a 14 per cent stake in Air France-KLM has been criticised by the Netherlands’ Court of Audit on Wednesday.

On Thursday, US officials signalled the country’s intention to abandon a historic treaty which permits parties to conduct short-notice reconnaissance flights over one another’s territory.