Two kinds of virus, one biological and the other digital, have spread around the world, changing society and creating social elites
Due to covid-19, there are aeroplanes jetting about with few, if no passengers in them, which means those planes are releasing unnecessary greenhouse gases that will trap heat and warm this planet for decades to come
The twin-engine plane that will make the journey uses a modified system that burns 25% less fuel than other aircraft of a similar size
The amazing intercontinental feat was replete with drama and astounding views of Africa.
Just walking through an elite passenger section is enough to raise the risk of antisocial behaviour – much more so than booze or cramped seats.
The problem is that we stumbled around for half a decade without addressing the structural problems that cause scandal to erupt every few months.
Different perspectives make for wonderful stories.
Two objects possibly related to the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been sighted in the southern Indian Ocean.
Malaysia’s military has traced what could have been the jetliner missing for almost five days to an area south of the Thai holiday island of Phuket.
Four people have died following the crash of a light aircraft, which was hit by lightning, crashed and then burst into flames in eastern Indonesia.
Thousands of people have gathered at Airbus’s Toulouse campus to watch the first flight of the aircraft manufacturer’s A350.
For just £370, a flight from London to Johannesburg with one short layover in exotic Addis Ababa seemed like a great idea.
A solar-powered aeroplane has landed in Phoenix after a flight from California that included several hours in the air after sundown.
All passengers and crew have survived after a Lion Air Boeing 737 missed the runway on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
Now safely back on home soil, Lloyd Gedye describes the terror flight from Libreville that got him here.
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/ 17 January 2009
New York has fêted its latest hero, the pilot who landed a distressed US Airways jetliner on the Hudson River, saving all 155 on board.
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/ 13 January 2009
The search for a missing Johannesburg pilot resumed on Tuesday morning, the SA Search and Rescue Organisation in Johannesburg said.
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/ 18 December 2008
Minister in the Presidency Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was lucky to be alive after a plane she was aboard performed an emergency landing on Thursday.
The hijackers of a Sudanese plane that was forced to land in Libya released all passengers on Wednesday, a Libyan aviation authority official said.
Two small planes collided in midair and crashed in central England on Sunday, killing five people, emergency workers said.
An auto racing pioneer, Betty Skelton Erde (82) once was the fastest woman on Earth.