The world's largest airline trade group has called for immunity passports, thermal screening, masks, and physical distancing to be a part of the industry's strategy for returning to "normal" operations.
After fully privatizing Deutsche Lufthansa AG a quarter-century ago, the German government will become a minority owner in an effort to rescue the country's largest airline from economic devastation wrought by coronavirus travel restrictions.
Electric VTOL air taxis are one of the great emerging technologies of our time, promising to unlock the skies as traffic-free, high-speed, 3D commuting routes.
Boeing failed to sell a single commercial airplane but saw orders for 108 planes canceled in April as a sharp drop in air travel erased any demand among airlines for new jetliners.
"The recovery is going to be slow, with air traffic languishing at depressed levels for months," Calhoun predicted, according to Bloomberg. When asked if a major airline would fold, he replied "Yes, most likely."
A Chinese team has demonstrated a prototype of a microwave plasma thruster capable of working in the Earth's atmosphere and producing thrust with an efficiency comparable to the jet engines you'd find on modern airliners – under laboratory conditio
Well, it's official: there won't be any "Buy American" op-eds by the Oracle of Omaha this time around. In fact, if anything, they will be titled simply "Sell."
Sir Richard Branson is looking to sell Virgin Atlantic before the end of May after he failed to secure a government bailout with his £80 million private island as collateral, reports indicate.
Just last month, China's air mobility company EHang announced plans to fly into Europe and set up shop in Seville, Spain. Now the firm has partnered with the City of Hezhou in Guangxi Province, China, to build a tourism-focused terminal for its air t
It's hard to imagine a return to normalcy any time soon, but the time will come, likely well before we have a vaccine for the coronavirus, when the world gets back to flying.
Just finding space to park can be a problem, and idle planes require a surprising amount of work, from maintaining hydraulics to stopping birds from nesting.
U.S. airlines are starting to look past the coronavirus peak, anticipating a world where travelers remain leery about returning to the skies and flights are drastically reduced in the normally robust summer travel season.
This eVTOL air taxi design looks like a weird helicopter/plane hybrid, but it's the safest of all the eVTOL designs we've ever seen, and it has another killer advantage in that it requires no special certification.
"We are looking at the whole thing," said Trump regarding a domestic air shutdown.
At the urging of Senator Lindsey Graham, Trump Considers Domestic Air Travel Restrictions.
Stratolaunch, the company behind the world's largest plane, has unveiled plans for a hypersonic vehicle it hopes will offer customers a way of rapidly testing advanced flight technologies.
Here is a snapshot of America's bailout culture: beggars, and those demanding bailouts, can not only be choosers, but can dictate under what terms they are bailed out.
Here is a snapshot of America's bailout culture: beggars, and those demanding bailouts, can not only be choosers, but can dictate under what terms they are bailed out.
Virtually all domestic passenger flights in the US could be halted due to COVID-19, as major US airlines have been drafting plans for a voluntary shutdown - while government agencies have been considering an order to do so anyway, according to the Wa