The aviation sector has struggled throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, as commercial and business flights nearly ground to a halt as countries across the world enforced coronavirus restrictions and closed their borders. Andrew Charlton, the managing director of Aviation Advocacy, spoke to CGTN Europe about the future of the global sector and said that, with the…
The three major global airline alliances have offered their full support to the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) second-phase council on the aviation recovery task force (CART) report. SkyTeam, Oneworld, and Star Alliance urge governments to implement the report guidelines for passenger testing protocols, as well as the adoption of digital health pass technology, so…
Despite an industry slump that has seen mass pilot lay-offs, the global civil aviation industry will still require an estimated 27,000 new pilots by the end of 2021, or 264,000 over the coming decade. That forecast comes from Canadian training and simulator provider CAE, which on 9 November released its latest prediction covering the demand…
In 2015, American manufacturer Boeing began researching a concept airliner for the middle market known as the 797. Following this numerical trend across to Boeing’s European counterpart, what are the chances that Airbus will ever manufacture an A390? The A350 was the last widebody airliner launched by Airbus. What will be the next? Photo: Getty…