Aviation

The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has received yet another huge order. Emirates, an airline owned by the state of Dubai, just ordered as many as fifty Airbus A350 jets at an airshow.

Lufthansa cancelled a total of 700 flights on Thursday because flight attendants started a two-day strike. On Friday, 600 flights will not take off. The 'Ufo'…

Ryanair is under pressure. The Irish low-cost airline announced it would close several of its European bases, including the one in Hamburg.

In Berlin, BER Airport was supposed to be inaugurated in 2011. Now, eight years later, a date for the announcement of an opening date was announced. This would have sounded very credible, had there not been a long history of screw-ups and delays.

Germans love to fly. While a national discussion about the eco-friendliness of domestic flights and flying in general just started, thanks to Greta Thunberg and…

Berlin politicians who have ridiculed the Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg and her movement Fridays for Future should probably think again. She and her…

Berlin is an important capital, but in order to get to that other important capital, you need to fly to Frankfurt first, then to Dulles, Virginia, and then take a long cab ride. Or fly directly to Newark, New Jersey, and then to the only airport in the U.S. which carries the names of two former presidents: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport,…

Guzzling a cool Gin Tonic in Key West is priceless, just like staring at the big statues on Easter Island, getting shot in Monterrey or fighting diarrhea in…

Between 10:00 p.m. and midnight, a huge chaos at Schönefeld Airport's passport control was reported by passengers. When Ryanair flight FR1149 arrived from Sofia…

In the last millennium, when clouds were white and fluffy, when pilots were still heroes, and when 2 plus 2 still equaled 4, flights were an adventure we enjoyed. The airlines treated passengers with respect, they fed and smiled at them. Hell, they even let them smoke up there.