The World of Aviation

Lufthansa’s supervisory board has met to discuss the European Commission’s conditions placed on a potential government bailout loan. Lufthansa’s board was expected to approve the conditions for its hard-won loan from the German government. The sanctions imposed by the European Commission have resulted in the airline refusing to accept the deal and has said it

The world’s largest all-electric aircraft is about to take to the skies for the first time in a test flight over Washington state in the US on Thursday. The Cessna Caravan, retrofitted with an electric engine by magniX, is expected to fly for 20-30 minutes. Unlike the experimental aircraft that have dominated electric flight so far,

Boeing has announced that it will start involuntary layoffs in the US, with the first set of almost 7,000 job losses to be communicated this week. Combined with the voluntary layoffs already made, this amounts to nearly 12,300 job cuts. There may also be more to follow, as Boeing has previously said 16,000 job cuts

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.