Aviation

The first commercial airliner to cross the Atlantic on a purely high-fat, low-emissions fuel flew Tuesday from London to New York.

Europe and Canada said they would close their airspace to Russian airlines, raising the pressure on the U.S. to do the same.

The sole working Antonov-225 Cossack was confirmed lost but — perhaps remarkably — the Ukrainian government has vowed to rebuild. 

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) during a committee hearing Wednesday slammed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Dr. Anthony Fauci for politicizing mask mandates during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

Climate scientists rack up more air miles than other academics – but feel more guilty about it as they do so, a study has found.

Finally, some good Coronavirus news: the pandemic has caused the collapse of Europe’s carbon trading market. According to Recharge News: The Covid-19 pandemic has turned Europe’s carbon price upside down, with prices dropping by 40% since early March when they

Israel’s national carrier El Al will continue operating flights to the U.S., Europe and Africa out of “national responsibility,” the company’s CEO said Tuesday.

The Irish premier has been slammed for threatening to ban British planes from his nation’s airspace after Brexit if the UK takes back control of its territorial fishing waters.

Brexit leader Nigel Farge has said Airbus’ intervention in the Brexit debate is politically motivated after the aviation giant threatened to pull out of the UK unless business ties with the European Union (EU) are maintained.

LONDON (AP) — A third runway at Heathrow Airport was approved Tuesday by Prime Minister Theresa May’s Cabinet, setting the stage for a parliamentary vote on the matter after years of debate over how to increase airport capacity around London.

Three months after an Air Canada flight narrowly avoided causing the “greatest aviation disaster in history,” a second Air Canada jet ignored a San Francisco air traffic controller’s repeated orders to abort a landing at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), sparking an investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

On Friday, an Air Canada pilot reportedly narrowly missed crashing into four airplanes full of passengers and fuel awaiting takeoff at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO).

Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Wednesday announced enhanced security measures for airlines, amid “renewed” terrorist interest in targeting planes and airports.

A drone forced Dubai international airport, one of the world’s busiest, to halt air traffic for an hour and a half Saturday evening, the third such incident in less than five months.

The Times of Israel reports: Just a few days after the Technion broke ground on a research center in Guangdong, a second Israeli institution — Israel Aerospace Industries — announced that it, too, was establishing one in the southeastern Chinese province.

The 13 activists from climate protest group Plane Stupid who were arrested in July after blocking a runway at Heathrow are due to go on trial over the next two weeks. Today they pleaded not guilty to aggravated trespass and

With the aging B-2 Stealth Bomber’s design dating back to the 1970 disco days of the Carter Administration, the Air Force just opened a competition to build the next strategic bomber. The “B-3” pits teams from Northrop Grumman that built the B-2 versus Boeing and Lockheed Martin, which built the B-52 bomber and F-35 strike aircraft. No matter who wins the bid, the plane will be designed in California’s Antelope Valley.

A former airline boss has claimed the missing Malaysian Airways flight MH370 wwas shot down by the US Air Force. Marc Dugain, the former chief executive of now-defunct Proteus Airlines, claimed the American’s feared a 9/11 style attack on the