by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Feb 3, 2023 | Flight
After a troubled late 2022 in which it cancelled thousands of Christmas flights and later reported huge losses, Southwest Airlines has won some respite by being on Fortune’s 2023 list of World’s Most Admired Companies. The airlines came in 23rd overall and...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Feb 2, 2023 | Flight, Travel
Flag carrier Finnair is to end its in-flight and pre-order retail sales of cosmetics, accessories, gifts and other retail products. In-flight sales are to end on all flights on 28 February 2023, but pre-orders will be delivered until 18 April. Passengers will not have...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Feb 2, 2023 | Flight, Inspiration
The UK Department for Transport has joined Boeing, British Airways, and the William Gibbs Trust to fund a programme that aims to inspire, enable, and support state school students into aviation, aerospace, and space. The Air League, the charity that changes lives...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Feb 2, 2023 | Flight, London
IAG Cargo has carried the Airbus-sized cast of one of the largest-ever dinosaurs from Buenos Aires to London for its first-ever European exhibition. The dinosaur, known as titanosaur Patagotitan mayorum, is around the same length as a British Airways’ Airbus A320...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jan 30, 2023 | Flight, Trending
Almost as soon as the teams had traipsed off the pitches in what were effectively the semi-finals of the American Football season, Southwest Airlines had added extra flights to its home city of Phoenix, which on February 12 will host the 2023 Superbowl, the showpiece...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jan 27, 2023 | Flight, Technology
The US’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has asked Boeing to lead the development and test-flying of a “full-scale transonic truss-braced wing (TTBW) demonstrator airplane”. The belief is that the technologies will “inform...
