Highlights
- The February 2021 edition grants you exclusive access onboard an American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX demonstration flight before it resumed fare-paying services. Our US correspondent analyses the type’s grounding impact and speaks to key figures from the airline and wider industry observers to discuss efforts to rebuild lost trust.
- Elsewhere, as the industry continues to be hampered by the coronavirus pandemic, there is light at the end of the tunnel as we feature the first of a two-part series on aviation’s role in vaccine transport and look at what innovative designs have been created to keep customers safe onboard commercial airliners. Finally, we gain insight from two carriers holding their own during the pandemic as we chat to senior figures from Emirates and Volaris.
- Meanwhile, as most of us continue to be confined indoors, we will scratch that itch for all your travel needs with a stop in Alaska. Surrounded by mountains as far as the eye can see, we take a ride on the venerable DHC-3 Otter before making a thrill-seeking landing on a glacier. Our next stop is the German capital, Berlin, as we take front-row seats to bid an emotional auf wiedersehen to the much-loved Tegel, and a hello to the long-awaited Brandenburg. We round off this edition by concluding the second part of the Trident and look at the efforts aimed at quashing birdstrikes.
- As usual, we bring you comprehensive coverage of news along with commercial aircraft acquisitions, historic aviation, up-to-date accident reports and MRO news.
Full Contents
- Global news – Airliner World’s international news coverage
- The long-awaited return – Join us on board the first Boeing 737 MAX to fly in the United States with members of the public since March 2019
- Battling birdstrikes – We learn more about the next-generation solutions designed to mitigate the dangers of birdstrikes on aircraft
- Glaciers galore – Flying in and around Alaska is always fun, but throw in a glacier and a turboprop and things get even more exciting, as Andreas Rohde discovers
- The untouchables – Companies and individuals from around the world have been developing COVID-busting innovations to help make flying safer
- In the spotlight: Volaris – We meet Holger Blankenstein, executive vice president at Mexican low-cost giant Volaris, to discuss the carrier’s bold strategy for 2021
- A shot in the arm – In the first of a special two-part report, we explore commercial aviation’s critical role in transporting vaccines around the world
- In the spotlight: Emirates – We catch up with Emirates’ UK chief Richard Jewsbury to talk everything from the future of the A380 to a return to Heathrow Terminal 3
- Set up to fail? – Steven Skinner concludes his fascinating retrospective of the Hawker Siddeley Trident, the British trijet which failed to realise its full potential
- Deliveries – The latest commercial acquisitions
- MRO news – Updates from maintenance, repair and overhaul providers around the world
- Aviation training – A round-up of recent developments
- Departure gate – A selection of readers’ comments, photographs and lighter stories
- Historic aviation – News from the world of preservation
- Air safety – Up-to-date accident reports and crash information
- First in, last out – Andreas Spaeth went out with the old and in with the new on board historic flights at Berlin’s Tegel and Willy Brandt airports
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