Airbus Wants Pilots To Fly From The John, Luxury Cruise Passengers Go On Hunger Strike And The Voyager Probes Are Dying In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup When airlines are in serious financial trouble, they start furloughing pilots. Airbus is working to transform the desperate measure of reducing operations costs into a sales pitch for its planes. The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) claims the European aerospace giant is proposing putting a toilet in the cockpit to… Read more…

Half of Russia’s Airbus A320/321neo Fleet Grounded Due To Lack Of Engine Parts Turbine jet-powered airplanes are the highest maintenance vehicles on the planes, so being cut off from the necessary firehose of spare parts will have consequences. Currently, half of the Airbus A320neo and 321neo planes in Russia can’t fly due to maintenance issues. Most of the grounded aircraft desperately need new… Read more…

F.A.A. Investigating How Counterfeit Titanium Got Into Boeing and Airbus Jets The material, which was purchased from a little-known Chinese company, was sold with falsified documents and used in parts that went into jets from both manufacturers.

Massive Hailstorm Smashes The Nose And Windscreen On Airbus Jet It’s a scary time to be flying these days; if it’s not deadly turbulence made worse by climate change and parts falling off Boeing planes left, right and center, then it’s massive hailstorms ripping planes to pieces. That’s exactly what happened in Europe this weekend, when the nose of an Airbus jet was ripped apart… Read more…

Britax Boulevard on Airbus 321? I’m traveling on a fairly short flight (3 hours) in a few weeks and have been planning to bring our regular car seats for our two kids, both Britax Boulevard models, on the plane. Has anyone traveled on the plane with these car seat models? Are we asking for trouble? submitted by /u/miked32587

Airlines Are Scrapping Airbus 380s For Souvenirs Air France and Emirates have started selling bag tags made for the skin of their first Airbus A380s. The double-decker airliners built early during the aircraft’s production run are reaching the end of their service lives. It would be easy to assume that a plane as significant as the world’s largest passenger airliner… Read more…

Airlines Are Racing To Find Fake Parts In Airbus And Boeing Engines Global airlines are having a time of it right now, with shortages of everything from ground workers and planes getting in the way of seamless service. Now, carriers operating certain Airbus and Boeing planes are racing to fix a new problem: fake engine parts. Read more…

The Final Airbus Beluga XL Is Ready For Takeoff It’s a tough time to be an enormous aircraft these days, just ask the Boeing 747 that went out of production at the end of 2022. Now, after killing off its own super-sized passenger plane in 2021, Airbus has brought production of its bonkers looking Beluga cargo plane to an end this week. Read more…