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During this audio segment, our journalist Elizabeth is reviewing a story about Brazil’s GOL Linhas Aereas announcing that it would resume passenger flights on the Boeing 737 MAX as soon as December 9, 2020.
As things stand, the Brazilian low-cost carrier would be the first airline to fly a commercial passenger flight on the type since its grounding in March 2019.

Find the article over here: https://www.aerotime.aero/26636-gol-linhas-aereas-boeing-737-max-flights-dec-9

Qantas Airways plans to make vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory for international air travelers once the vaccine is widely available. Qantas CEO Alan Joyce expects other global aviation peers to follow suit.

In an interview with Australian television show A Current Affair, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said "we are looking at changing our terms and conditions to say for international travelers, that we will ask people to have a vaccination before they can get on the aircraft."

In this episode, author of the article Vyte Klisauskaite shares some additional thoughs behind the story.

Link to the article: https://www.aerotime.aero/vyte/26501-qantas-to-require-covid-19-vaccination-proof-before-travel

The Oslo Stock Exchange announced that share trading for Norwegian Air Shuttles' shares were halted “in anticipation of an announcement from the company,” on November 18, 2020. The low-cost carrier was one of the worst-hit airlines amidst the current pandemic, as it entered the current crisis with an already fragile financial situation.

Together with Michael Jonga, Aerotime News team journalist Rytis Beresnevičius shares his insight about the story at hand.

Read the full article: https://www.aerotime.aero/rytis.beresnevicius/26458-norwegian-share-trade-halt

This week we will be taking a look at how the Boeing 737 MAX may fly by as soon as November 18?

The un-grounding of the MAX is inching ever closer, as the FAA is in the final stages of the model’s review. If all goes well, the aircraft’s grounding order could be lifted by as soon as next week.

Now As the FAA is reviewing the documents and changes made to the aircraft, three sources familiar with the ongoing matter told Reuters that the process is in its final stages and is expected to be complete in the coming days, meaning that the MAX could be allowed to fly by as soon as November 18, 2020.

Find the article at https://www.aerotime.aero/rytis.beresnevicius/26366-boeing-737-max-ungrounding-nov-18

Storing aircraft could become quite a headache for airlines and Lufthansa (LHAB) (LHA) might be a great case to examine. The German airline flew six Boeing 747s to storage at a small Dutch airport in order to park them where doing so is much cheaper. However, when it later wanted to send the aircraft to scrap them – Lufthansa was unable to do so, as the airport’s runway was not certified to allow such heavy aircraft to depart. Yet they were allowed to land. Now, the first of the six 747s stored at the airport finally departed toward its final destination, Mojave Air & Space Port (MHV).

This week’s story looks at an incident in Doha airport, Qatar. On October 2, female passengers flying to Sydney, were taken off the airplane, strip-searched and medically examined without their consent. The search happened after a premature baby was discovered in the terminal bathroom of Hamad International Airport earlier that day. The invasive searches came to light this week after passengers contacted authorities in Australia.

Together with Michael and Elizabeth we will dive deeper into the story and it's meaning to the industry