The World of Aviation

United Airlines has announced an order for 50 Airbus A321XLRs to be delivered from 2024 alongside plans to defer its order of 45 A350-900s by five years.

Sir Richard Branson has backed out of a deal to sell a 31 per cent stake in Virgin Atlantic to Air France-KLM that was struck in 2017.

Hong Kong Airlines has reassured passengers it is operating as normal despite local authorities imposing a five-day deadline to improve its finances.

Airbus has unveiled the 100th A220 regional jet to be delivered to an airline customer some three years after the aircraft entered service in 2016.

Cathay Pacific has outlined plans to reduce capacity by 1.4 per cent in 2020 amid the ongoing impact of the demonstrations in Hong Kong, media reports say.

The premium economy cabin could be shaken up with some true innovation after a number of years where nothing much has changed, John Walton writes in his latest Cabin Pressure column.