Lee Cross

Assistant Editor - Airliner World. Contributor and former deputy editor at Airways.

Latest Articles

1/04/1964: First Papal Visit to Use a Commercial Airliner

1/03/1981: Pan Am Retires the Boeing 707

1/01/1922: World's First Airline Uniforms

12/31/2006: BWIA Becomes Caribbean Airlines

12/27/2014: Qantas Retires Its Last Passenger Boeing 767

12/25/2011: VietJet Air Operates Its Maiden Flight

12/24/1905: Aviator Howard Hughes is Born

12/22/1976: Maiden Flight of the Ilyushin Il-86

12/21/1945: Ethiopian Airlines Is Founded Post-lib

12/19/1980: New York Air Commences Operations

12/14/2001: British World Airlines Ceased Operations

12/13/1977: Eastern Introduces the A300 in the US

Legacy Articles

JetSMART Jets in to Rio de Janeiro

Korean Air-Asiana Merger Unopposed by Australian Authorities

8/24/1986: Frontier Airlines Ceased Operations

Loganair Cuts Hundreds of Flights at Newquay

Air New Zealand Defers Boeing 787 Deliveries

Air France Pilots Suspended after Flight Deck Brawl

8/29/1970: The Iconic DC-10 Takes to the Skies

8/27/2015: SkyGreece Suspends Operations

A global review of commercial flight in its 31st year
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