Australian regional airline Rex has announced it will start selling tickets between Sydney and Melbourne from today for a 1 March 2021 launch.
In this cross-posting with The Conversation, infection control and disease prevention researchers Professor Ramon Zenel Shaban and Cristina Sotomayor-Castillo discuss how to protect yourself while travelling, and what airlines need to do next. Airline travel health advice has so far mostly focused on how to stay hydrated and avoid deep vein thrombosis. What passengers really
Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC) has almost finalised the design of its new C919 narrow-bodied jet, and now awaits final flight testing to be completed by Chinese regulators. COMAC confirmed on Friday that it was nearly the final completion of its C919 jets, the Chinese planemakers answer to the globally popular Airbus A320 and
United Airlines has delivered the first batch of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to the US through Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, as both the drugmaker and airline industry prepare for widespread distribution. The airline completed the first delivery via a charter flight from Brussels to Chicago on Saturday, with an unidentified number of vaccine doses onboard. In
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has announced the temporary suspension of its Antonov An-124 operations following an uncontained engine failure incident that occurred at Tolmachevo Airport in Novosibirsk. The Russian airline has said that as of 25 November, operations on all eight of its An-124 aircraft will be suspended in order for the planes to have their engines
Airbus has reportedly found new buyers for six aircraft from its A320neo family after major customer AirAsia cancelled its orders in light of COVID-19. While undelivered and cancelled aircraft orders have become something of the norm in the post-COVID aviation environment, the case of tensions between Airbus and AirAsia became unusually public in April when
