GE Aerospace and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions have received a U.S. Air Force Engineering, Manufacturing and Development contract for the F143-ZZ-100, a second-source propulsion system for the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile. The engine, derived from the GEK800 turbofan, carries…
NASA has revealed a newly painted Boeing 737-700 that is being modified for reduced-gravity research flights. The aircraft, painted in Oklahoma, is moving through conversion work before entering service as a test platform for parabolic missions that simulate low-gravity conditions…
Spirit Airlines’ flight attendants’ union has objected to Google’s planned $10 million purchase of the bankrupt carrier’s internal business data, delaying a U.S. bankruptcy court hearing on the transaction to 9 September. The material at issue includes employee emails, Microsoft…
Air Peace has put its revenue loss from repeated aircraft damage linked to ground-handling equipment at about $42 million, as three of its aircraft were seriously affected over the past 12 months. The Nigerian carrier ties the disruption to incidents…
American Airlines has paused a contrail-avoidance climate trial after a sharp increase in jet fuel prices, halting part of an effort designed to cut warming trails from aircraft operations. The move comes as wider contrail-avoidance testing expands over the North…
Electra has flown its EL2 Ultra Short hybrid-electric demonstrator in a series of route tests aimed at linking small regional airfields with Philadelphia International Airport. The flights, run through the FAA eVTOL Integration Pilot Program with support from the Pennsylvania…
EHang has launched a Global Fast Track Programme for pilotless eVTOL deployment, with Sri Lanka becoming the first market to adopt the framework through the country’s Ministry of Ports and Civil Aviation and Civil Aviation Authority. The initial plan targets…
Lufthansa has ended a long-running reciprocal duty-travel arrangement with Condor, removing discounted flights for employees of both airlines from 1 September. The move covers staff travel within the Lufthansa and Condor network and comes after Lufthansa judged the deal to…
Zurich Airport is operating under restrictions after a partial failure of its apron control IT system disrupted traffic on Tuesday and continued to affect flights on Wednesday. The breakdown has forced more manual coordination of departures, stand allocation and traffic…
TUI fly Netherlands will replace its six Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft with Boeing 737 MAX 10s and add a seventh jet as it expands capacity for summer 2027. The first MAX 10 for the fleet is already under construction…
NASA has released new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images of the Moon’s impact site after a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage struck the lunar surface on 5 August. The fresh images show a crater about 60 feet wide and less than…
Delta Air Lines’ pilot union has moved away from accelerated scheduling talks and back to the traditional Section 6 bargaining process, signalling that a quick summer fix for the airline’s operational problems is unlikely. The decision follows a special meeting…
XTI Aerospace has appointed Jeremy Schneiderman as interim chief executive and Jonathan Ornstein as interim chairman after Scott Pomeroy stepped down from those roles and as a director, effective 17 August. The move reshapes the leadership of the Dallas-based aerospace…
Innsbruck Airport has launched WebTrak, a free online platform that lets the public view flight movements and related noise data around the Austrian airport. The interactive map shows aircraft tracks with about a one-hour delay and gives per-flight details including…
Aerodata AG has unveiled its new AeroForce X reconnaissance drone in Strausberg, Brandenburg, showing the prototype publicly for the first time at its manufacturing site near Berlin. The system is designed for continuous maritime surveillance and protection against hybrid threats,…
Lufthansa Group has begun rolling out Starlink-based in-flight internet, with a Lufthansa A320neo entering service on the Frankfurt-Rome route on Wednesday as the first aircraft fitted with the new Lufthansa Group Wi-Fi. The group plans to equip about 850 aircraft…
A helicopter carrying guests for luxury safari operator &Beyond crashed on Wednesday near Mount Ololokwe in Samburu County, Kenya. The Eurocopter EC130 B4 was on a charter flight from the Loisaba-Suiyan area towards the Ewaso Nyiro region when it came…
Kenya Civil Aviation Authority is investigating a helicopter crash in remote Samburu County, northern Kenya, after a Eurocopter EC130 B4 registered 5Y-GYM went down on Wednesday near Mt. Ololokwe. The aircraft was operating from Loisaba/Ewasonyiro when it crashed at about…
Lufthansa Group has begun rolling out Starlink-based in-flight internet with an Airbus A320neo from the Lufthansa mainline fleet becoming the first aircraft equipped with the service. Branded Lufthansa Group Wi-Fi, the system is being introduced across roughly 850 aircraft in…
Rosaviatsiya has reissued the type-certification paperwork for Russia’s Tu-204 and Tu-214 family as a single unified document, replacing four separate certificates for the variants. The move covers the Tu-204, Tu-204-100V, Tu-204-300 and Tu-214, and is intended to simplify operation, maintenance,…
PT Garuda Maintenance Facility Aero Asia has completed the modernisation of a C-130H Hercules transport aircraft, A-1319, and handed it over to Indonesia’s Defence Ministry at its hangar in Tangerang, near Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. The aircraft returned to service after…
Kratos has disclosed that a missionised US Marine Corps Valkyrie Collaborative Combat Aircraft flew an electronic warfare mission alongside multiple F-35s and an F/A-18 at a U.S. Navy test range in Southern California. During the April flight, a Marine operator…
Ampaire has closed a $19 million Series B financing round backed by DiamondStream Partners and strategic investors including Alaska Airlines and International Airlines Group. The Long Beach, California-based hybrid-electric propulsion developer will use the new capital to push commercialisation of…
Eurowings will restart Dubai services from Berlin, Stuttgart and Cologne/Bonn on 25 October, ending a nearly eight-month suspension linked to security disruption in the Middle East. The Lufthansa subsidiary will bring back the routes with the start of the winter…
A technical partial outage at Zurich Airport reduced operational capacity for arrivals and departures on Wednesday, disrupting Apron Control functions and forcing the hub onto a manual fallback procedure. The system affected departure planning, electronic coordination with Skyguide and Eurocontrol,…
Saxony Economics Minister Dirk Panter is calling for clearer nationwide rules on drone defence for companies operating critical and highly sensitive facilities in Germany, arguing that responsibilities must be defined more precisely between the federal government, the states and industry.…
FAI rent-a-jet has expanded its charter fleet with another Bombardier Global 6000, its second such addition this year. The aircraft, registered D-AFAN and bearing manufacturer serial number 9471, is based at the company’s Nuremberg headquarters and is available immediately for…
Airbus has started work on a major expansion of its Belfast A220 wing facility, with completion planned for the first half of 2028 as the company prepares for production of 13 aircraft a month by then. The project will add…
Stratos has acquired an Airbus A321-200 on lease to Air Transat, bringing the Canadian leisure carrier in as a new client while expanding the company’s managed fleet. The aircraft was sourced from a major lessor, and the transaction also adds…
Omni Táxi Aéreo has selected Honeywell Aerospace’s IntuVue RDR-7000 weather radar for its entire fleet of 33 Leonardo AW139 helicopters. The fleet-wide upgrade targets offshore missions, where earlier weather detection and dependable operations are central to safety and scheduling. The…
Hydrogen-aircraft developer Stralis has shut down after a taxi test, ending operations as fundraising became harder amid weak and uncertain commercial demand for hydrogen aviation. The Brisbane-based company had been developing hydrogen-electric propulsion systems for aircraft, including retrofits and future…
TAAG Angola Airlines will launch a Luanda–Dakar–Praia service on 31 October 2026, restoring its Cape Verde link and creating a new West African triangle route. The operation is set to begin with the opening of the IATA winter 2026/27 season,…
AIR ONE has appointed Ilya Gavrilin as Business Development Director APAC, with the Hong Kong-based role focused on expanding the carrier’s scheduled and charter freighter business across Asia-Pacific. The move centres on AIR ONE’s Boeing 777F and 747F operations and…
Turkish Airlines operated a Boeing 777-300ER charter from Perth to Turin on 11 August, setting a company record for its longest nonstop flight. The special service carried Juventus home after the club’s Australia trip and covered about 13,800 km in…
FlightPath3D has extended its long-running partnership with Gogo, with its mobile-first moving map now flying on more than 1,000 aircraft equipped with Gogo Vision worldwide. The service is integrated with Gogo’s inflight entertainment platform and is available to passengers on…
American Airlines will retrofit its narrow-body fleet with seatback screens at every seat and a larger premium cabin, starting with new Airbus and Boeing deliveries in 2028 before extending the programme across the existing fleet. The Fort Worth-based carrier plans…
A Bombardier Global 5000 operated by Germany’s Bundeswehr Flugbereitschaft is set to leave the Seychelles after an unscheduled landing forced by a technical problem during a training flight from Egypt to Réunion. The aircraft had been parked on Mahé while…
Germany’s aircraft accident investigation office is examining a Lufthansa Airbus A380 after the aircraft touched down too early at Munich Airport and damaged runway threshold lighting on the southern runway. Flight LH459 from San Francisco landed safely on Monday with…
United Engine Corporation’s Klimov division in St Petersburg has completed the design phase of the VK-1600S turboprop and approved the engine layout for small aircraft, including the An-2 and TVS-2DTS. The next step is a demonstrator engine and a dedicated…
Turkish Airlines plans to resume Havana service on 25 October 2026, restoring an Istanbul–Havana link with Boeing 787-9 aircraft for the Northern winter 2026/27 season. The route is scheduled at three frequencies a week and is already visible in the…
India’s National Company Law Tribunal will rehear insolvency petitions against SpiceJet after the airline reached a last-minute settlement with aircraft lessor Aviator ML, delaying a ruling that had already been prepared. The batch concerns eight petitions over unpaid dues linked…
Rosaviatsiya has issued a single type certificate for the Tupolev Tu-204 and Tu-214 family, replacing four separate approvals for the different variants. The move covers the Tu-204, Tu-204-100V, Tu-204-300 and Tu-214, and is expected to simplify fleet support, reduce operating…
Airbus is working towards a tentative first flight for the A350F in late September, with 24 September understood to be the preferred target and early October also possible. The schedule remains provisional, but if it holds it would leave the…
Flybondi’s website became inaccessible on Tuesday, displaying a 504 Gateway Time-out that prevented passengers from buying tickets, changing reservations or completing online check-in across the Argentine low-cost carrier’s network. The outage hit while the airline was already under pressure from…
Germany’s BFU has released new findings on the Munich incident involving a Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9, confirming that the aircraft lifted off late on Saturday, its tail struck the runway during rotation and tyre marks matching the jet were found…
SkyAlps Europe s.r.o., the Bratislava-based Slovak subsidiary linked to SkyAlps, is targeting an air operator certificate and operating licence in September and plans to start flying with two de Havilland Dash 8-400 turboprops from the group’s existing fleet. The first…
Netflix on Wednesday began streaming Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing, Rory Kennedy’s documentary follow-up to her 2022 film on the company. The new feature revisits the 737 MAX tragedies in Indonesia and Ethiopia, which killed 346 people, and examines allegations…
Somali Airlines is preparing to resume scheduled passenger flights in September 2026 from Mogadishu, with operations expected to start from Aden Adde International Airport after about 35 years on the ground. The government-backed revival of the national carrier is in…
American Airlines will restore seatback screens on its narrowbody fleet and expand premium seating across those aircraft in a major cabin overhaul unveiled in Fort Worth, Texas. The rollout starts with new Airbus and Boeing deliveries in 2028, then moves…
Vietnam Airlines’ Boeing 787-9 VN-A867 was not incorrectly loaded when it suffered a takeoff incident in Munich on 15 August, narrowing the focus of the investigation into the flight preparation for VN34 to Hanoi. A load sheet seen by sources…