The World of Aviation

In a UAE first, Etihad Airways has committed to increasing its female workforce by 25 percent over the next five years. The move follows the IATA’s “25by2025” campaign, a push to make the airline industry more gender-balanced.

Ryanair has cancelled scheduled flights to and from Italy in light of the recent lock-down of more than a quarter of the country’s population in response to COVID19.

A sneezing passenger onboard a United Boeing 757-200 to Newark, New Jersey, on Sunday afternoon prompted an altercation amongst several travellers.

The United Kingdom government has asked for the EU to relax airport slot rules, which have led to the phenomenon of empty “ghost flights”.

The Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, and not its pilots, were to blame the March 2019 Ethiopian Airline crash, the country’s ministry of transport has ruled in an interim report.

Tampa International Airport has announced plans to install a floor-to-ceiling, six metre-tall pink flamingo in arrivals from November.