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Dubai has announced plans to become the first city in the world with a fleet of flying taxis, and it has even signed a deal with a German aviation company called Volocopter, for the supply of electrically powered driverless drones that can carry two passengers by way of18 rotors and nin…
France's Happy Design Studio creates bespoke liveries for private and corporate jets, founded by trained artist and pilot Didier Wolff, who wants aircraft exteriors to be as personal as their owners' cars.
Rivals may carry more passengers or earn larger revenues, but Emirates has its own bragging rights. Profits leapt forty per cent last year on rapid expansion and cheaper fuel, served by an exceptionally young fleet and countless awards.
First class or private? An enjoyable debate, until recession bites and the jet is the first thing to go. With small-aircraft orders dwindling to a third of their 2008 peak, manufacturers are struggling.
We all dream of owning one, but private aviation rests on two honest questions: can you genuinely afford it, and do you clock more than 350 flying hours each year? The answers may surprise you.
When space, range and parts availability top your wish list, only one ultra-long-range private jet will do. We weigh the Airbus Corporate Jet against the swifter Gulfstream G650, and the numbers surprise.
Winning pilots' loyalty is no easy task, for they scrutinise every trade-off in cost, safety and features. Since 1984, Minnesota-based Cirrus Aircraft, co-founded by the Klapmeier brothers, has devoted nearly thirty years to solving that challenge.
Its First Class offers suites rather than seats, and a Six Senses spa graces its lounges. Joseph Ghandour examines how Etihad swept another stellar year of accolades to become our favourite way of flying.
Iyad Kayali steps aboard the Emirates A380, home to perhaps the most opulent first-class experience aloft, with a private suite boasting an electric sliding door, adjustable lighting, a built-in massage seat and a flat-bed mattress.
Trunks and Trunks Luis Vuitton: 100 Legendary Trunks by Pierre Leonforte Before the standardisation of luggage enforced a set of cumbersome limitations, trunks were the bastion for the globe-trotting jet-set. Louis Vuitton: 100 Legendary Trunks recounts the history and legacy of the world’
A major milestone was achieved in July 2010 when André Borschberg, an engineer and fighter pilot, landed an odd looking aircraft with a tiny fuselage and a massive jumbo-jet-size wingspan. In fact aviation history had been made, for it was the first time a plane had ever flown through the
Private jets are like superyachts in that the only thing better than owning one is when you’re good friend does. But no matter how close you are to the big honcho, when your invitation to ditch the hoi polloi finally arrives you’d better be on your best behaviour because if you aren’t – th