Highlights
- Emirates: LIFE After the A380
- The eye-catching cover star of the February 2026 edition of Airliner World, incorporating Airports of the World, is Emirates Airbus A380-861, A6-EOD, captured flying out of Manchester in June 2025 in its special Official Airline Partner of the NBA livery. as the world’s largest operator of the superjumbo, it is hard to imagine what Emirates would look like without the A380 in its fleet. so that’s precisely what Andreas Spaeth explored when he spoke to the carrier’s president, Sir Tim Clark, about Emirates’ plans with and beyond the A380.
- Meanwhile, German leisure carrier Condor has said auf wiedersehen to an aircraft that has been the workhorse of its fleet for many years, the Boeing 757-300. Airliner World was on board the farewell flight between Frankfurt and Vienna and spoke to the carrier’s CCO Christian Schmitt about the lasting impact the Seattle rocket left on the airline.
- Robert Veitch visited Terminal 4 at Madrid/Barajas to learn more about the terminal’s past, present, and future as it celebrates two decades of operations and Stewart Marshall travelled to Leipzig to uncover the inner workings of DHL’s equivalent to the Swiss army knife – European Air Transport Leipzig.
- In the latest instalment of our How it Works series, Robert Veitch tells all about the mind-boggling, time-sensitive world of aviation catering. There are profiles on the Italian carrier Air Dolomiti and Zela Aviation, the well-established aviation brokerage firm. Plus, Robin Evans details efforts to extract Cyprus Airways’ fleet from the demilitarised zone on the island after the Turkish invasion of 1974.
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Features
- From A to Zela – With its fingers in various aviation-filled pies, Zela Aviation has become a well-established and trusted aviation brokerage firm, as Lee Cross discovers
- The great escapees – Robin Evans details efforts to extract Cyprus Airways’ fleet from the demilitarised zone on the island after the Turkish invasion of 1974
- Avanti Dolomiti – Edward Paine looks at the recent history of regional Italian airline Air Dolomiti and chats to CEO Steffen Harbarth
- Please sir, can I have some more? – In the latest instalment of our How it Works series, Robert Veitch looks into the mind-boggling, time-sensitive world of airline catering
- Emirates after the A380 – Andreas Spaeth chats to Emirates president Sir Tim Clark about the airline’s plans with and beyond the Airbus A380
- In the yellow zone – Stewart Marshall travels to Leipzig to uncover the inner workings of DHL’s equivalent of the Swiss Army Knife – European Air Transport Leipzig
- Postcards from Rhodes – Simon Gregory presents a series of photographic highlights from a recent trip to the Greek island of Rhodes
- Madrid’s masterpiece – As Terminal 4 at Madrid/Barajas celebrates its 20th anniversary, Robert Veitch visits the facility to learn more about its past, present and future
- Auf wiedersehen jet – Condor may now boast an all-Airbus fleet, but its Boeings didn’t go out with a whimper, as Andreas Spaeth discovers on its final 757 flight
Regulars
- News review
- Sky View: Insights and opinion on the industry’s hottest topics
- Deliveries: Latest commercial acquisitions
- MRO News
- Departure Gate: Readers’ comments 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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