The airline United Airlines asked its pilots to take unpaid time off next month on a regular basis “voluntary”, alleging a delay in the delivery of aircraft from the manufacturer Boeing, as reported this Monday by CNBC, which had access to the letter that the pilots received from the company. The company had previously said […]
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The Mexican Aviation airline resumes flights now in the hands of the Army
Mexican Aviation, the first airline commercial of the country, resumed flight this Tuesday after its bankruptcy 13 years ago and the rescue of the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who handed over its control to the Army, which has raised questions about its viability. The airline’s first flight, a Boeing 737-800, departed at 8:00 a.m. […]
The more global warming, the more turbulence for planes
The skies that cross the planes are more agitated today than four decades ago, says a study showing that turbulence has increased in several regions of the world, and the authors say that this increase is consistent with the effects of the climate change. The University of Reading (USA) publishes an investigation in Geophysical Research […]
Mexico City airport resumes operations after presence of volcanic ash
The Benito Juárez International Airport of the Mexico City resumed operations after having suspended them this Saturday due to the fall of ash left by the activity of the Popocatepetl volcano. During the early hours of the day, the air terminal reported that “due to the presence of volcanic ash, the airport closed operations as […]
Avianca launches an additional flight between Bogotá and Lima for affected Viva Air passengers
Avianca informed that it arranged an additional flight between Bogota and Lima to attend the affected passengers who were stranded in the airports of both capitalsafter the sudden suspension of flights by the airline Viva Air. As reported by Avianca through a press release, the first plane left the Colombian capital at 3:30 p.m. and […]
Travel is reactivated but there are not enough planes
While airlines like United Airlines Holdings Inc. Y Air India Ltd. placing or about to place orders for hundreds of planes, Boeing Co. and Airbus SE boast of their sales successes. But supply chain constraints mean those planes won’t be delivered for a few years: Jefferies LLC estimates there are currently 12,720 planes backordered. All […]
Incidents on airplanes increase exponentially due to masks
Updated on 12/23/2021 03:48 pm Incidents involving passengers on airplanes have increased exponentially in U.S in the year that ends, mainly due to the refusal of many of them to use the face mask, mandatory on all flights to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The New York-based Wall Street Journal published a study by the […]
How to fly more without continuing to pollute?
How to increase the volume of passengers in the air sector while dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes? These are the main elements of the question. What does air traffic represent? The air sector transported 4,500 million passengers in rl 2019, which meant a production of 900 million tons of CO2, that is, approximately […]