Qantas Airways, Australia’s biggest airline, is cutting orders for 35 Boeing 787-9 aircraft for a saving of US$8.5 billion as it announces its first trading loss since being privatised in 1995. The airline reported a statutory loss of A$244 million for the year ended June 30, a half billion dollar turnaround on the profit of [...]

Pilots of a passenger jet arriving in Munich radioed a distress call and landed on autopilot because they were too tired, according to reports. The flight crew on an Air Berlin A330 arriving from Mallorca, Spain, issued a pan pan call about 15 minutes before they landed, the Aviation Herald reports. A pan pan call [...]

“The Hump,” a perilous, Himalayan no-man’s land that became a graveyard for hundreds of fearless WWII-era fliers who battled Japanese fighters, impossible weather and a supply route from hell. Just 21 years old on Nov. 17, 1942, when he took the co-pilot’s seat of a C-47 bound for Dinjan, India, from Kunming, China, Browne was [...]

- Singapore Airlines stewardesses will now be able to fly well into their 50s after the airline agreed to add up to three years to their careers, the company said Monday. Under the new agreement signed by Singapore Airlines (SIA) and the Singapore Airlines Staff Union, junior stewardesses — who usually start working at 23 [...]

See where Boeing airplanes are flying around the world using our Boeing Flight Tracker tool. The routes are based on OAG (Official Airline Guide) data, run on a monthly basis. You can sort by Boeing airplane model using the top navigation, and toggle day/night filter using the controls on the right. This data represents flight [...]

The 737 MAX incorporates the best of future engine technologies for unprecedented levels of efficiency, reliability and passenger appeal. MAX Efficiency includes 18% lower fuel use than today’s main competitors. The new 737 MAX Advanced Technology winglet provides a reduction in fuel use of up to 1.5%. With these new MAX AT winglets, the 737 [...]

With 90 per cent of the world’s major airports, including Sydney and Melbourne, facing severe congestion, Airbus is planning an even larger, stretch A380

Two airline pilots have lost their jobs after an altercation in the cockpit during a bout of turbulence. The former employees of budget airline Flybe are now claiming unfair dismissal in a lawsuit in the UK. Captain Stephen Bird allegedly told first officer Stephen Akers he had not filled out the pre-flight documentation “cos you’re [...]

OTTAWA (Reuters) – A sleepy Air Canada pilot first mistook the planet Venus for an aircraft, and then sent his airliner diving toward the Atlantic to prevent an imaginary collision with another plane, an official report said on Monday. Sixteen passengers and crew were hurt in the January 2011 incident, when the first officer rammed [...]