The “Kangaroo Route” from Australia to Britain became a shorter hop Saturday when the first direct passenger service left Perth for London, with the 17-hour flight set to break aviation records. Qantas’ 14,498 kilometre (9,009-mile)…
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Electric planes aim to soar high for cleaner aviation
Ultra-light, fast and cheap: more than a century after the Wright brothers flew the world’s first powered aircraft, a small Slovenian company now hopes to revolutionise the aviation industry with its award-winning electric planes. Pipistrel’s…
#Travel: Ethiopian Airlines to operate all-female flight crew
Ethiopian Airlines will be operating an all-female flight crew for the first time in its history on Thursday, November 19, 2015. The flight operating from Addis Ababa to Bangkok will be a historic flight aimed…
Fasten seatbelts for bumpier flights: climate study
Flights will become bumpier as global warming destabilises air currents at altitudes used by commercial airliners, climate scientists warned Monday. Already, atmospheric turbulence injures hundreds of airline passengers each year, sometimes fatally, damaging aircraft and…