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Is national pride the only thing that can save struggling airlines like Air Berlin and Alitalia from market forces?
On the trail of the men of Britain’s Royal Aircraft Factory, who gave their lives to help create the world’s first air force.
Failing to agree an aviation agreement could mean no legal basis for flights to operate at UK airports.
Sophisticated systems keep planes in bubbles of safety.
How not to handle it – British Airways have offered up a textbook example of getting almost everything wrong.
Online shopping giants and logistics firms are trying to improve efficiency and cut carbon – knowing that doing so will reduce their operating costs while appealing to green-minded consumers.
Being an air hostess in the 1960s was a sought after job. But bodies were carefully policed: at Qantas, if a hostess put on too much weight she could be rostered off until she’d lost it.
Flying cars have been the stuff of science fiction for years, and now companies are now starting to look at such options. But what will it take to get our cars off the ground?
A round airport would let more flights take off in a smaller space, but the technology is nowhere near ready to make it work.
But standards of service are so low across the US airline industry that United may well get away with it.
By responding to passenger violence by training staff, airline management fail to address fundamental issues with their low cost profit model.
The ban on electronic devices in cabin luggage overlooks the airports that would be least likely to detect a bomb.
The recent film Sully reveals just what pilots are facing in a disaster situation.
With little hope of finding alternatives to jet fuel, we need to seriously consider a world without flying.
Despite performing the same job, one of BA’s three cabin crew fleets earns far less than their colleagues.
All over the country, novice drone pilots are launching their new Christmas presents skywards. But do they all know the rules? Here’s a primer.
Qantas’s new non-stop route from Perth to London might be a watershed for travel times between Australia and Europe. But super-long-haul routes won’t do much to cut aviation’s greenhouse emissions.
The crash near Medellin killed 75 people, including many members of a top Brazilian football team, but amazingly left six survivors.
The president-elect’s taste for private jets could be just what the aviation industry needs.
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