Aviation

The world’s first fully electric commercial aircraft took its inaugural test flight on Tuesday, taking off from the Canadian city of Vancouver where tall mountain peaks edge the Pacific Ocean. “This proves that commercial aviation in...

Emirates declared that it would add a new daily flight between Dhaka and Dubai considering the increasing trend of Bangladesh’s international travelers. “The fourth daily flight will be operated from June 1, 2020 by a Boeing...

Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia Group Bhd said on Friday it would sell flights on more than 100 other global airlines as part of a push to boost revenues. The carrier said it had signed a strategic...

Bombardier‘s Northern Ireland operations have been sold to the US firm Spirit AeroSystems in a deal worth nearly £1bn. The Canadian firm put the factories up for sale in May as part of a reorganization of...

US-Bangla airlines added a brand new 72-seat turboprop ATR 72-600 aircraft as part of its plan to increase flight frequency on domestic and regional routes. The new aircraft raised the current aircraft number to 11 along...

A plane and its passengers are set to test the mental and physical limits of long-haul aviation when Qantas operates the first direct flight by a commercial airline from New York to Sydney this weekend. In...

Airline Swiss expects to resume most normal service with its fleet of Airbus A220 jets on Thursday after temporarily grounding the jets for safety checks of their engines, it said on Wednesday. The inspections of Pratt...

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will get its forth brand new Boeing 787-8, last in the row of 10 new aircraft, on September 12 as the 16th aircraft of its fleet. “The new aircraft named as Rajhangsha will...

Qantas will run test services of its planned 19-hour flights to determine whether passengers and crew can withstand the marathon journeys. The airline wants to operate non-stop services from Sydney to London and New York by...

Shares in Hong Kong’s flagship carrier Cathay Pacific plunged more than four percent on Monday after Beijing banned airline staff supporting Hong Kong protesters from flights going through the mainland. Cathay shares lost 4.37 percent to...