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The Baron’s 2021 predictions

We’ve enlisted our good friend Baron Felix von Tempelhof to highlight some topics to keep on your radar for the year ahead…

The Brandenburg wait

Berlin’s brand new, multi-billion-euro Brandenburg airport is finally handling flights, but seemingly endless setbacks threatened the entire plan. Chris Croot examines the complex story of a project that ran nearly a decade late and €5bn over budget

Picking up the pieces

The domestic aviation market in the UK experienced seismic shocks in 2020. Tom Batchelor reviews the events of the last 12 months and speaks to executives of the country’s major airlines to find out how they weathered the storm created by the collapse of Flybe and the COVID-19 pandemic

Apilgrimage tothe Pyrenees

The French town of Lourdes is renowned globally as a destination of religious pilgrimage. However, in the aviation industry, its airport is synonymous with aircraft storage and scrap. In the second instalment of this series, Sebastian Thoma provides a remarkable snapshot of Tarbes–Lourdes Airport from both the air and the ground

SET UP TO FAIL?

In its initial guise, the Trident was a world beater set to steal Boeing’s thunder and rob the US manufacturer of 727 sales. Sent back to the drawing board by British European Airways, the world’s first trijet airliner was deprived of performance and passengers making it a financial flop. Stephen Skinner details its development and early variants in the first of two instalments

Aviation transformations

With safety being absolutely paramount in aviation, modifications to aircraft are normally strictly controlled by the airworthiness authorities. However COVID-19 has seen a temporary easing of some rules as Ian Harbison reports

The ‘other’ low-cost airlines

Charles Woodley recounts some of the upstarts that tried to squeeze in on the low-cost revolution that swept through the UK in the mid-1990s and early 2000s

Polynesian propliners

The Chathams Pacific story

Airliner Deliveries

The latest commercial aircraft deliveries from manufacturers and lessors

MRO

The latest news from maintenance, repair and overhaul providers

Historic Aviation

Preserving Commercial  Aviation’s Past

Aviation Training

The latest training aids available for the aviation professional

Blocked pitot probe causes A321 RTO at V1

Reports and details of recent incidents

Letters to the editor

Information for the traveller

Notime Toulouse The rapid rise of Airbus

Half a century since the Airbus consortium was founded in December 1970, Airliner World looks back at the pan-European manufacturer’s first aircraft – the A300 – and the challenges, technical, logistical and political, it had to overcome in laying the foundations for what is now the world’s biggest commercial aircraft producer

Hi Fly set to terminate A380

(Photo v1images.com/Fabrizio Spicuglia) PORTUGUESE WET-LEASE specialist, Hi Fly,

Traffic slumps in second lockdown

UK AIRLINE traffic figures plunged in November after

Brandenburg finally open for business

(Photo Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH/Günter Wicker) EASYJET AND

Airseven is go for launch

The first aircraft for Danish start-up, Airseven, was

in brief

Loganair has confirmed a return to Teesside International

Norwegian ponders position

(Photo Norwegian Air Shuttle) THE CHIEF executive of

Smallest A330neo variant delivered

(Photo Airbus) KUWAIT AIRWAYS has become the first

Etihad in “mid-size” pivot

(Photo Flickr Commons/LoadedAaron) IN RESPONSE to the devastating

Super-sized ‘mini-freighter’

(Photo Emirates) EMIRATES SKYCARGO has begun bespoke charter

A widebody in waiting

This 297-seat, ex-Air Europa Airbus A330-200, EC-LQO (c/n

Astral accepts maiden 767F

(Photo Astral Aviation) NAIROBI-BASED ASTRAL Aviation has added

in brief

De Havilland Aircraft of Canada has handed over

Delta’s ‘Big Twin’ bows out

(Photo Flickr Commons/ Tomás Del Coro) THE FINAL

777-300F gains first customer

(Photo GECAS) MICHIGAN-BASED KALITTA Air, has signed a

Back on the way to JFK

(Photo Flickr Commons/redlegsfan21) AFTER AN absence of more

in brief

In a letter to its employees, American Airlines

Nautical adventures for SpiceJet

INDIAN LOW-COST firm, SpiceJet, continues to diversify its

South Korean merger mooted

(Photo Flickr Commons/Jun Seita) THE TWO biggest carriers

A ‘jumbo’ sale

(Photo AirTeamImages.com/Tek) IN A bid to raise much-needed

in brief

The ANA Group – which consists of mainline

Premia ready to premiere

The maiden aircraft for South Korean low-cost start-up,

JAL fleet shake-up

(Photo Flickr Commons/BriYYZ) TOKYO-BASED JAPAN Airlines (JAL) has

COMAC’s express delivery

China Express Airline’s first COMAC ARJ21-700 was pictured

Maiden A321P2F delivered

(Photo Victor Pody) THE FIRST Airbus A321P2F converted

Boeing Deliveries

British Airways received the first of four Boeing

GE90 marks 25 years

(Photo AirTeamImages.com/ Adam Tetzlaff) THE GENERAL Electric GE90,

Airbus Deliveries

Airbus handed over the first of three A321LRs

Mitsubishi pauses SpaceJet programme

(Photo Aviation Image Network/ Baoluo) TOKYO-BASED MITSUBISHI Heavy

FAA un-grounds Boeing 737 MAX

(Photo Boeing) THE US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Embraer reports Q3 deliveries

EMBRAER DELIVERED a total of 21 business jets

Gulfstream bolsters G700 test fleet

(Photo Gulfstream) THREE WEEKS after the maiden flight

An Embraer and Porsche Duet

(Photo Embraer) AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURER Embraer has teamed up

G500 and G600 enhanced performance

(Photo Gulfstream) GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE announced enhanced performance figures

Testing times

Gordon Smith catches up with Peter Foster, CEO of Air Astana to discuss how the Kazakh flag carrier is navigating the COVID-19 crisis