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Subscribe to magazine. Give a gift. Customer Service. Check your flight reservation page Almost every airline in the world lists the aircraft type on the reservations page of its website.

Still not sure? Common planes for U. Article continues below advertisement. How are these type of planes different? The flying doctor. Since April, Delta Airlines has allowed medics to fly free of charge to hard-hit areas of the United States. Deloitte is assisting in this effort by donating the company's unused ticket balances to fund the travel, and the financial consultancy is also donating its unused ticket balances on Southwest Airlines to support medical professionals traveling to treat Covid patients.

Luring passengers back into the skies. Airlines, such as KLM, are slowly beginning to put flesh on the bones of their skeleton services. Some airlines are even planning to address pent-up demand for when travel restrictions are eased.

Aiming to re-mobilise Europe's low-cost airline sector, Wizz Air recently announced six new routes launching between June and October, from London-Luton to the popular vacation destinations of Corfu, Heraklion, Rhodes, Zakynthos, Faro and Marrakesh.

The airline also operates cargo flights from China, mainly to Hungary, to support the containment of Covid by transporting PPE. In Germany, Lufthansa currently offers around 40 daily connections from its Frankfurt and Munich hubs. The Frankfurt - London Heathrow schedule operates two daily return flights -- not repatriation flights, but part of Lufthansa's recently launched "limited service.

Worldwide, Lufthansa currently offers 15 weekly long-haul connections: three times a week each from Frankfurt to Newark and Chicago, Sao Paulo, Bangkok and Tokyo. In its new reduced schedule, Lufthansa will be flying from Frankfurt to Athens, Porto and Gothenburg from 18 May onwards and Lufthansa's domestic flights from Munich will be doubled. From its Frankfurt and Munich hubs, it now offers a total of weekly connections to cities in Germany and Europe.

Looking ahead to the June timetable Lufthansa Group plans to reactivate 80 aircraft in response to the growing interest of its customers in air travel, as restrictions lift, thereby doubling the amount of planes it will be flying in May.

Boom, a Denver—based startup, is poised to produce Overture—the first civilian supersonic jet since the Anglo-French Concorde was retired almost two decades ago. One potential customer is Japan Airlines , an early investor in the company, which gives it an option to buy up to 20 of the seat airliners. The aircraft would fly at just over twice the speed of sound—Mach 2. Still, the idea of flying from the East Coast to London in half the current time, or from the West Coast to Asia is hard to resist, especially as Boom promises to make it a pleasant ride, with each passenger getting an oversized window.

Overture has some possible competition from Exosonic, a Silicon Valley startup founded by Stanford grad and aerospace engineer Norris Tie. Exosonic's goal is to develop a seat plane that can fly supersonically overland and overwater with a muted sonic boom, thus overcoming the main hurdle to putting the plane into wider service in the U. It is still in the concept-design stage with the first commercial flight targeted for , but the entrepreneurs behind it are gaining attention for their innovative approach.

Airbus recently unveiled a scale model of a prototype design that it claims can reduce fuel consumption by 20 percent while carrying hundreds of people. The airline specializes in long-haul trips to Asia from several U. Boutique airline La Compagnie moved up in this year's voting, landing at No. This summer, the carrier added flights to Tel Aviv, and Milan flights are slated to start in November. Readers also had high praise for No. The food and entertainment always exceed expectations.

All in all, they are a class act! Meanwhile No. A familiar winner was also the model of consistency at the very top of the rankings.