Aurigny chief executive Nico Bezuidenhout has challenged whether Guernsey’s state-owned airline should be held to a break-even target after posting a £6.3 million loss for 2025. He said the mandate is debatable when about 70% of Aurigny’s flying is now…
Qatar Airways has restored 85% of its pre-crisis network and is flying about 140 daily departures to more than 160 destinations as it pushes past the Gulf disruption tied to the Iran war and airspace closures. The carrier also named…
The Swiss National Council has approved a revision of the Aviation Act that would lock in the operating hours of Zurich and Geneva airports, extending legal protection from infrastructure to operations themselves. The vote, 130 to 60, gives the national…
Pete Hegseth announced a six-month Pentagon review of U.S. force posture and basing in Europe, directly impacting airlift, tanker operations, and access corridors. The assessment will consult U.S. military leaders, European Command, Congress, and NATO allies to determine future troop…
The Pacific Air Forces have permanently shifted the 4th Reconnaissance Squadron’s RQ-4 Global Hawks from Andersen Air Force Base to Yokota Air Base. The move, completed in late May and announced on 15 June, ends the squadron’s seasonal typhoon posture…
Armenia has ordered six Airbus H145 helicopters, closing its first contract with the manufacturer during French President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Yerevan. The deal has entered into force and gives the Armenian state a new light-twin platform for transport…
NASA and Katalyst Space have moved the Swift reboost mission into launch readiness, with the LINK servicing spacecraft set to lift the orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory later this month from Kwajalein Atoll. The mission uses Northrop Grumman’s…
Qatar Airways hat zwei neue Top-Management-Rollen geschaffen und Abdulla Ali zum Chief Operating Officer sowie Calum Laming zum Chief Customer Officer ernannt. Beide Positionen greifen ab 1. November 2026 und berichten direkt an Group Chief Executive Officer Hamad Al-Khater. Ali…
Finland will arm its future F-35 fleet with GBU-53/B SDB II glide bombs, adding a new air-to-ground option to the country’s NATO strike package. The munition is built to engage moving targets at medium range and in poor weather, fitting…
A Ukrainian drone assault on 18 June 2026 forced a full, temporary suspension of operations at all four major Moscow airports—Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo, Domodedovo, and Zhukovsky—disrupting one of Europe’s busiest air hubs. Russian authorities intercepted approximately 180 drones, with several breaching…
Qatar Airways resumed commercial Airbus A380 operations on 16 June 2026, deploying the superjumbo exclusively on Doha–London Heathrow and Doha–Bangkok Suvarnabhumi routes. The restart marks the return of the airline’s largest aircraft after a months-long grounding of all eight active…
Quantum Space has secured a Department of War contract to build a fuel depot spacecraft demonstration for in-space refueling. The vehicle will ride on the company’s Ranger platform and is designed to refuel spacecraft, extend mission life and give the…
Malaysia wants to add three more Turkish Aerospace Anka-S UAVs, lifting the Royal Malaysian Air Force fleet from three to six aircraft. The second-phase buy follows the first batch, already accepted at Labuan Air Base and assigned to No. 11…
Aergo Capital has completed the sale of two Airbus A321-200s to FTAI Aviation, removing MSN 4099 and MSN 4148 from its leased portfolio. Both aircraft are on lease to Air Transat, so the transaction shifts assets already embedded in revenue…
Unknown attackers breached the perimeter of Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey early on 18 June, triggering explosions and sustained gunfire for more than an hour. Nigerien security forces repelled the assault and restored control of the airport grounds, while…
Ukrainian drones struck the Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya on 18 June, setting off fires and sending thick smoke over the capital. The site sits about 15 km from the Kremlin and supplies road fuel to Moscow, so the hit…
Armenia has placed its first order with Airbus Helicopters, signing for six H145s to support transport missions and modernise its rotorcraft fleet. The contract entered into force during French President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Yerevan. Airbus is pitching the…
Qatar Airways has restored its network to 85% of pre-crisis levels and created two new executive posts as it resets for the next phase of growth. The carrier said the milestone came with the launch of its summer 2026 schedule,…
India’s annual defence production hit a record INR1.78 trillion in FY 2025-26, extending the country’s push to build a deeper domestic military supply base. The figure is 15.6% above the previous year’s INR1.54 trillion and nearly four times the FY…
KLM has grounded an Airbus A321neo after flight KL1583 suffered a tail strike while landing at Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport on 16 June. The aircraft, registered PH-AXB, touched down on runway 02 and sustained damage to the empennage and rear…
KKR has committed $1.4 billion in equity to expand its commercial aircraft leasing platform with Altavair. The deal extends a partnership that began in 2018 and marks KKR’s third aircraft leasing portfolio with the Seattle-based lessor and financing specialist. The…
The U.S. Air Force has moved Anduril’s FQ-44 from prototype to production, awarding the company a contract for its first Collaborative Combat Aircraft Increment 1 fleet. General Atomics also won production work for the FQ-42, giving the service two parallel…
Britain has fined Sabre Global Technologies £1,000,920.59 for breaching Russia sanctions, the largest penalty the regime has produced since 2022. The UK unit kept Ural Airlines on its Global Distribution System for seven months after the carrier was designated in…
König Willem-Alexander hat nach der Umstellung von der Boeing 737 auf die Airbus A321neo bei KLM seinen ersten Flug auf dem neuen Muster absolviert. Der Einsatz auf den Linien KL1373 und KL1374 zwischen Amsterdam und Bukarest markiert den Übergang des…
Red Cat used Eurosatory 2026 in Paris to launch Hellcat, a dual-use small UAS built on the Black Widow platform and pitched to allied and coalition operators. The configuration shifts the company’s Black Widow lineage toward a more open, modular…
Sun PhuQuoc Airways is lining up a rapid pivot from narrowbody regional flying to a widebody leisure hub, with eight A330-200s due by the end of 2026 and up to 40 Boeing 787-9s scheduled from 2031. The airline plans to…
Alaska Airlines has started work on a new maintenance hangar at Portland International Airport, a $135 million buildout that will add widebody-capable capacity to its Pacific Northwest maintenance network. The facility will deliver 125,000 square feet of indoor aircraft maintenance…
Air Caraibes has intensified its partnership with Aero Biodiversite to map and protect biodiversity at four Caribbean airports, leveraging ecological refuge status of airport land. The collaboration, initiated in 2022, now incorporates findings from the 2025 annual report, which identified…
SKY express and Greece’s air traffic controllers have united in blaming the Civil Aviation Authority for two days of delays at Athens International Airport after late inspections of approach systems, including the Instrument Landing System. The disruption hit arrivals and…
SunExpress will open a new direct Bremen-Izmir service on 23 June, with three weekly flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The route links Bremen Airport with Izmir on the Turkish Aegean coast and gives the carrier another leisure-focused Germany-Turkey pairing…
Italy’s privacy watchdog has fined Emirates €180,000 over its handling of health data from passengers with reduced mobility. The regulator accepted that medical processing can be lawful for flight safety and assistance, but said Emirates fell short on transparency and…
Eve Air Mobility’s Eve 100 eVTOL demonstrator is set to enter low-speed transition flight within weeks, moving the programme beyond hover and low-speed testing at Embraer’s Gavião Peixoto facility in Brazil. The aircraft has already completed envelope-expansion work, and the…
Airbus hat in Toulouse seine zweite modernisierte A320-Finalmontagelinie in Betrieb genommen und damit den 10. A320-Familien-Endmontagepunkt im globalen Netz freigeschaltet. Der Umbau am Jean-Luc-Lagardère-Standort, der früher die A380 trug, stärkt die Single-Aisle-Industrialisierung für den Hochlauf auf 70 bis 75 Flugzeuge…
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has received a production contract from the U.S. Air Force for the FQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft, converting the YFQ-42A prototype line into a production programme. The award marks the first order for operational aircraft and extends…
American Airlines will reach 100 destinations across Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America after adding two Miami routes this year. Maracaibo, Venezuela, starts on 14 July 2026 with daily Embraer 175 service, and Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, follows on 1 November 2026…
The U.S.-Iran cease-fire framework may cool oil and jet fuel volatility, but airlines are still facing a 2026 earnings reset. IATA now sees net profit at $23 billion, a 2.0% margin, after Middle East disruption, higher fuel costs, and rerouted…
Der deutsche Luftverkehr tritt von Juni bis November bei 141,8 Millionen Sitzplätzen auf der Stelle. Das geplante Angebot liegt damit nur auf Vorjahresniveau und bei rund 92 Prozent von 2019, während der europäische Markt weiter wächst. Besonders die deutschen Drehkreuze…
Britten-Norman has launched a Global Aircraft Recovery service to pull stranded aircraft out of remote or high-risk environments and return them to maintenance bases. The package combines engineering support, spares, repair coordination and ferry-flight planning with specialist partners. Its first…
Safran Electronics & Defense and Hemeria signed a memorandum of understanding on 13 June 2026 to build an electromagnetic reconnaissance system using stratospheric balloons. The project integrates Hemeria’s balloon platform with Safran.AI sensors linked to artificial intelligence models for real-time…
Four Airbus A220-300s are being dismantled in the USA to serve as spare-parts sources for Delta Air Lines’ A220 fleet. Azorra redistributed the 12 aircraft formerly operated by EgyptAir, delivering the final unit to Breeze Airways on 10 June 2026.…
Arianespace has flown the first upgraded Ariane 6, lifting 36 Amazon Leo satellites on VA269 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The Ariane 64 configuration used four new P160C boosters, extending payload performance enough to add four satellites over earlier…
Shield AI is testing Poland as a dual-use industrial node: X-BAT production and a regional F-16 engine service centre for NATO operators in Europe. Donald Tusk said the company wants to cooperate with Polish industry on the autonomous VTOL combat…
Portugal has ordered two more ICEYE SAR satellites for its Air Force, lifting the country’s sovereign constellation to four spacecraft. The contract was signed by CTI Aeroespacial, the joint venture between the Portuguese Air Force and CEiiA, after personnel inspected…
Airbus delivered the first H135 helicopter to the Royal Canadian Air Force on 17 June 2026 for the Future Aircrew Training program. The CT-153 Juno, equipped with Helionix avionics, will train RCAF rotary-wing pilots in basic ab-initio, advanced IFR, and…
Relativity Space has moved into Mars science with a privately backed orbiter set for launch in 2028. The program pairs company-built spacecraft, rocket and cruise operations with NASA’s Aeolus atmospheric instrument suite, creating a mission architecture aimed at global Mars…
The U.S. Air Force has chosen General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and Anduril Industries to move its Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme into production. The service will build the first Increment 1 air vehicles as FQ-42A and FQ-44A, dropping the prototype Y…
All sanctions on Iran are lifted, granting operators immediate open access to acquire new aircraft from abroad without export licenses or US component restrictions. This 14-point MoU, signed 19 June 2026 in Geneva, ends a four-month conflict and mandates permanent…
The U.S. Air Force has moved its Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme into production, awarding Increment 1 contracts to General Atomics and Anduril for the first FQ-42 and FQ-44 air vehicles. The awards cover engineering and manufacturing development plus production, and…
La certificación del Boeing 737 MAX 7 y del MAX 10 entra en su tramo final en la FAA y en EASA. Ambos reguladores han reducido el trabajo pendiente a la revisión documental y al cierre de los últimos puntos…
Delta Air Lines instalará el paquete de modificación con finlets de Vortex Control Technologies en su flota de Boeing 737-800 y 737-900ER, un programa que abarcará 240 aviones. El sistema, montado en el fuselaje trasero, busca reducir la separación del…