Highlights
- In April 2024’s jam-packed edition of Airliner World, we celebrate British Airways’ 50th anniversary when we focus exclusively on how BA has navigated its time since the Boac/bea merger and what lies ahead for the flag carrier.
- David Ransted takes us back in time to uncover the story of MGM Grand Air, while assistant editor Lee Cross visits the British Airliner Collection at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, and steps aboard the latest addition – a British Aerospace 146.
- Back to the present, we look at the introduction of two new aircraft for two airlines – Air India’s Airbus A350 and Transavia’s Airbus A321neo. Chris Frame heads down under to see how Australia’s newest airline, Bonza, is fairing a year after starting operations and editor Thomas Haynes visits the Finnair Flight Academy in Helsinki to find out how the airline trains its pilots to operate safely in some of the harshest flying conditions.
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Features
- Back in business – Nigel Pittaway reports from Changi on the major moves and deals to come out of the biennial Singapore Airshow
- Flight of the future – Siddharth Ganesh reports on the inaugural service of Air India’s maiden Airbus A350
- Transavia’s Airbus transition – Richard Schuurman discovers what was involved in Transavia and Transavia France’s mammoth change from Boeing to Airbus
- Airlander World – Hybrid Air Vehicles is now looking at the airline market having completed a feasibility study of the Airlander 10’s possible use in the north of Scotland. Ian Harbison reports
- Good things come in threes – Martyn Cartledge visited all three of Milan’s airports and presents a varied collection of photos from each
- No business like show business – Aiming to tap into the lucrative US showbusiness travel market, one carrier briefly earned its star on the airline walk of fame. David Ransted remembers MGM Grand Air
- Fighting the freeze – Thomas Haynes visits Finnair Flight Academy in Helsinki to learn more about how the airline trains its pilots to operate safely in some of the world’s harshest flying conditions
- Bon anniversaire CDG – Airliner World takes a look at the history of Paris/Charles de Gaulle and considers how far it has come since it opened its doors in 1974
- It’s Bonza, mate! – A year on from its first flight, Chris Frame asked founder and CEO Tim Jordan about the origins of Bonza and its impact on Australian travel
- Saving superjumbos – Babak Taghvaee visits the Tarbes aircraft storage facility to find out how it is keeping the Airbus A380 alive
- Monarchy to the museum – Lee Cross visited The British Airliner Collection to step aboard its latest addition: a BAe 146 with quite the story
- Fifty years of flying the flag – It is 50 years since British Airways was created by the merger of BOAC and BEA. Bernie Baldwin looks at events since then and what the airline has in store
Regulars
- News review
- Sky View: Insights and opinion on the industry’s hottest topics
- Deliveries: Latest commercial acquisitions
- MRO News: Maintenance, repair and overhaul reports
- Departure Gate: Readers’ letters and lighter stories
- UK Visitors: Rarities spotted on UK runways
- Aviation Training: Round-up of recent developments
- Air Safety: Incident and accident reports
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