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The aviation industry was already expecting a severe pilot shortage over the coming years. The pandemic could make it even worse.
Interviews with Ansett Airlines employees ten years after the airline’s collapse reveals a workforce much more resilient than expected - thanks mostly to how much staff helped each other.
More than one million weather observations were made by aircraft each day in 2019. Since the pandemic started, these have dropped by 90%.
Virgin Australia has gone into administration. From the collapse of former airlines we know staff might not only lose a job, but a family.
The coronavirus is stressing the continent’s aviation sector.
We’re likely to see fewer airlines, and a greater proportion of them big, if not strong.
The airline operates almost two in five of the UK’s domestic routes.
We analysed what the world’s top 58 airlines – such as American Airlines, British Airways and Qantas – are doing about climate change. Even the best airlines are not doing anywhere near enough.
All modes of high-speed travel come with a cost to the environment.
Weaker winds and higher temperatures are making airlines less efficient.
Suspending flights and screening passengers is mainly about reassuring us, not keeping us healthy.
Drones are coming to our cities – but what do people really think about them, and how can they have a sustainable future? New research provides some answers.
Small regional flights will soon start going electric but batteries are unlikely to ever fully power large airliners.
Qantas has faced calls to ground its entire fleet of Boeing 737s after cracks were found in three aircraft. But the incident is a threat to airlines’ reputations rather than a real risk to passengers.
As the notion of flight shame is taking off around the world, emissions from aviation are making a small but growing contribution to global warming.
Carbon emissions from international air travel show no sign of abating. In the absence of a tax on jet fuel, are sail boats the best way to travel the world sustainably?
The aviation ambitions of several African countries are linked to Chinese investment.
Your next flight could be the single biggest contribution to global warming you make all year. Experts imagine how we might travel in future, without the ‘flygskam’.
More than a century since humans learned to fly, we need to revolutionise how we stay up there.
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Faculty of Law, The University of Western Australia
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, UNSW Aviation., UNSW Sydney
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Professor/Head of Aviation, CQUniversity Australia
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DANCAP Private Equity Chair in Human Organization, Western University
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Former Academic Research Fellow, Khalifa University
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Associate Professor, Purdue University
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Lecturer in Strategy; Researcher in Aviation, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University
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Professor of Institutional Economics, RMIT University
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Professor of Management, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor of Aviation and the Environment, Cranfield University
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Associate professor, RMIT University
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Professor of Tourism, Griffith University
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Professor of History, University of Dayton
