YourAviationNews is a small, independent newsroom. This page explains who does what, how our desks are organised, and how to reach the right person with a story.

Editorial desks

Reporting is divided across six beats. Each desk is responsible for its own sourcing, verification and follow-up, and every article carries a byline so you always know who wrote what.

  • Airlines desk — network, fleet, financial and loyalty coverage.
  • Safety desk — investigations, regulators and airworthiness. This desk works to a slower publishing standard than the rest of the newsroom because early accident information is frequently revised.
  • Military aviation desk — defence aerospace programmes and fleets.
  • Airports desk — infrastructure, capacity, slots and air traffic management.
  • Aircraft desk — types, certification, production and engineering.
  • Passenger experience desk — cabins, service, pricing and passenger rights.

Editorial oversight

All copy is reviewed before publication against the checks set out in our Editorial Standards and Ethics policy: every factual claim traced to a named source, every quotation checked against the original, and every headline tested against what the story actually establishes. Post-publication changes of substance are logged as corrections or clarifications rather than made silently.

Writing for us

We commission freelance reporting and analysis from people with genuine domain knowledge, including pilots, engineers, controllers, dispatchers, safety investigators and industry analysts. If you would like to pitch, send a short outline of the story, what makes it new, and the sources or documents you expect to rely on. Please do not send finished articles on speculation.

Contributors are asked to disclose any employment, consultancy, shareholding or travel benefit connected to the subject of a story before we commission it. Where a relevant interest exists and the piece still has clear public value, we disclose it in the article rather than dropping the story.

Sending us information

Documents, photographs, recordings and first-hand accounts are welcome, and we treat confidential contact seriously. We do not reveal the identity of a confidential source, and we will not publish material that would identify a source without their agreement. If you are sending something sensitive, tell us in your first message what protection you need before you send the material itself.

Contact details for each desk are on our Contact page.