Martin Leo Rivers

Full article on economist.com There are few things as bone-chilling as the thought of an aircraft engine exploding in mid-flight, particul...

Full article on economist.com The shooting-down of Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 over Iran on January 8th provoked outrage aro...

Full article on economist.com Few readers of Gulliver will be surprised to hear that Ryanair is the largest low-cost carrier in Europe. Ha...

Full article on economist.com Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost carrier, has long defied conventional wisdom when it comes to brandin...

Full article on economist.com In video footage that will make even the most seasoned air-safety experts wince, a Sukhoi Superjet operated ...

Full article on economist.com Always on the lookout for a bargain, Gulliver takes great pride in using public transport when he travels ab...

Full article on economist.com When Boeing grounded the global fleet of 737 MAXs in March, Ryanair, the biggest buyer of the plane in Europ...

Full article on economist.com As is always the case when an airline goes bust, the collapse of WOW Air, an Icelandic low-cost carrier, has...

Full article on economist.com & video summary For the second time in five months, a virtually new Boeing 737 MAX airliner has crashed...

Full article on economist.com Earlier this month, a decommissioned Boeing 747 airliner was towed down a Dutch motorway to its final destin...

Full article on economist.com After a century of refining their craft, planemakers have become masters of building safe, reliable jets tha...

Full article on economist.com If a good compromise is one where all parties are left dissatisfied, this week’s bailout of Flybe by Connect...

Full article on economist.com Within days of putting itself up for sale, Flybe, a beleaguered regional airline based in Britain, has attra...

Full article on economist.com Despite plying European skies for nearly four decades, Flybe, a regional airline based in Exeter, Britain, h...

Full article on economist.com About a decade ago Syrian Arab Airlines, the state-owned flag carrier of Syria, was planning an order for 50...

Full article on economist.com On October 29th a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airliner, one of the newest and most technologically advanced passenger p...

Full article on economist.com Primera Air changed its low-cost business model this year by adding scheduled long-haul flights to its predo...

Full article on economist.com When The Economist wrote about Ethiopian Airlines in 1989, we praised the company’s “unqualified success” de...

Full article on economist.com For the second time in a year, Ryanair, Europe’s largest low-cost carrier, is changing the way it charges fo...

Full article on economist.com The skies above Seattle-Tacoma International Airport were closed on August 10th after an airline employee st...