The widebody recovery has arrived with force, but the clearest transformation is happening not in the cabin or the cargo hold ...

The modern widebody aviation industry is defined by competition between the A350 and the 787, at least until the 777X comes onto the market. When choosing which jet to go for, airlines have to ...

The Airbus A350 and Boeing 787 are broadly comparable aircraft, with the A350 being the larger of the two. They each have advantages and disadvantages over the other. One of the most notable ...

Fleet efficiency is the last point. An A380 can only be used on select routes; it has to be a very popular route and between ...

The 787 also remains the plane which Emirates doesn’t want to talk about: when approached by Executive Traveller, the airline declined to offer any comment. Since then, of course, Emirates’ mid-sized ...

Fast forward to 2025, and while the overall number is virtually the same, the composition of this utilization has shifted. The COVID pandemic led to the retirement of some of the old A330s and 777s, ...

It has a wider cabin, composite wings with folding wingtips and powerful GE9X engines. There are two variants, the 777-9, ...

The Gulf carrier was set to replace its 787-9s and 777-300ERs on the Sydney-Abu Dhabi route with A350-1000s on 31 January following their introduction in October, but has moved the timetable up citing ...