Tim Johnson

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Fast-Forward by John Walton, Managing Editor For anyone following the news in early 2020, it feels somewhat like a computer strategy game stuck on fast-forward speed, where notifications about global events and disasters pop up faster than you can resolve them. Whether it’s unprecedented bushfires, political assassinations, ructions in royal families, trade wars, presidential impeachment,

A statement to the WOFA from the manufacturer of the 737 MAX We continue to offer our deepest sympathies to the families and friends who lost loved ones in the accidents of Lion Air 610 and Ethiopian Airlines 302. We are truly sorry. The memory of these tragedies will continue to drive us to do

How the MAX is already changing the regulatory system Making commercial aircraft safe to fly should be a boring job, and one that people never hear about outside the pages of magazines like this one. Safety regulation should be discussed in tedious terms: harmonised, multilateral, international, predictable. Trusted, consensus-based agreements are its watchword. Beyond the

The 737 MAX forces Boeing and other manufacturers to rethink their future When Boeing conceived of the 737 MAX, it returned once more to the already highly profitable 737 family airframe for one further generation, in order to fund not only its successor the FSA (a future shorthaul aircraft) but other future aircraft like the

The financial cost to Boening, airlines and the industry We may never know just how much the 737 MAX crisis may cost Boeing. After the grounding of the aircraft following two crashes that claimed 346 lives in October 2018 and in April 2019, the prospect of a financial reckoning for the MAX is complex and