Abu Dhabi-based EDGE Group and France’s Safran Electronics & Defense signed a term sheet establishing the framework for two proposed joint ventures focused on next-generation missile development. The agreement, announced in Paris on 16 June 2026, centers on co-developing an…
Virgin Australia has restored its Melbourne–Doha operation, with the Qatar Airways-operated VA7 and VA8 services back in market on 15 June and capacity returning to double daily. The restart follows a February suspension tied to regional conflict and restores a…
KLM has named its first Airbus A350-900 The Night Watch, opening a new fleet-wide naming theme built around famous Dutch artworks. The aircraft, painted in Toulouse, is due for delivery in August 2026 and is scheduled to enter passenger service…
L3Harris has signed a memorandum of understanding with Turkish drone maker Skydagger to co-produce first-person-view interceptor drones in the United States for its VAMPIRE counter-UAS system. The package includes technology transfer and localized manufacture of the Turkish-designed interceptors, with integration…
Brussels has moved closer to rewriting EU air passenger rights, preserving the 3-hour delay trigger and the €250 to €600 compensation ladder while adding a duty for airlines to notify disrupted passengers within 96 hours. The deal also tightens claims…
Etihad Airways has entered its largest summer season with over 300 daily flights, launching four new routes including Kraków, Palma de Mallorca, Damascus, and Zanzibar between 11 and 14 June 2026. Capacity is 10% above last year with load factors…
American Airlines will resume daily nonstop service between Miami and Cap-Haïtien on 1 November, restoring a U.S. carrier link to Haiti after the 2024 suspension. The route will operate with Boeing 737 equipment and positions Cap-Haïtien as the sole Haitian…
Singapore Airlines has appointed veteran corporate lawyer Adrian Chan Pengee as an independent non-executive director, effective 15 June 2026. Chan, a senior partner at Lee & Lee LLP, brings more than 36 years of corporate law experience spanning M&A, governance,…
Terra Drone has opened Terra Defense Europe in Tallinn, giving the Japanese group a dedicated European base for defence unmanned systems. The subsidiary will handle sales, maintenance, logistics management and local partner coordination, while supporting Terra A1, Terra A2 and…
Leonardo Rheinmetall Military Vehicles has shown its New Main Battle Tank concept demonstrator at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris, giving the first public look at Italy’s planned heavy armour reset. The display vehicle uses a Leopard 2A4 hull and a model…
France is pushing the Airbus A400M beyond transport, launching development work to equip the French Air and Space Force fleet with multi-mission ISR capabilities. The move extends the Atlas into surveillance and intelligence roles through modular mission systems, widening its…
Utair faced a cockpit warning on a Boeing 737-500 after a female passenger tried to open the rear service door, mistaking it for the toilet. The aircraft, RA-73046, was cruising at about 11,000 metres over the Caspian Sea on 6…
Avianca Cargo has launched scheduled freighter service to Viru Viru International Airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, giving Bolivia a new direct lift capacity into its Latin American cargo network. The operation uses Airbus A330 freighters with up to…
Glasgow Prestwick Airport has signed a memorandum of understanding with Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport to widen cargo links between China and the UK. The agreement, struck during IATA North Asia Cargo Day in Guangzhou, focuses on cargo development, operational knowledge…
The 2026 APEX Best Awards were presented in Dublin on 10 June, with winners spanning Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East and Africa. The results give operators a current benchmark for passenger experience, where cabin service, food and…
Noida International Airport in Jewar has begun commercial operations, with IndiGo’s first passenger service arriving from Lucknow on 15 June 2026. The opening moves the greenfield airport from project phase to live scheduled service, with initial domestic routes also planned…
The UK has approved a £219 million Low Carbon Fuels Fund to push sustainable aviation fuel production toward commercial scale. The scheme opens later this summer, with £93 million available immediately over the next two years and applications due to…
Tianwen-2 has executed a series of small propulsive burns after a primary maneuver on 7 June as it closes on asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa. Radio tracking places the spacecraft in the rendezvous sequence, with the burn set refining its trajectory for…
NASA has pinned the DSS-14 antenna mishap at Goldstone on an azimuth over-rotation triggered by weak training, poor procedures and a failed hydraulic limit system. The 70-metre Deep Space Network dish over-ran its design limits while tracking Juno, damaging cabling,…
Vier Menschen wurden bei einem Busunfall am Flughafen Frankfurt verletzt. Ein Bus beschleunigte nach dem Anfahren an einer Haltestelle plötzlich, prallte auf das Heck eines wartenden Busses und schlug danach gegen eine Wand. Zwei Verletzte kamen zur weiteren Abklärung ins…
A former Kansas avionics executive has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for routing controlled U.S. aviation technology to Russian end users through false shipping records and misrepresented export details. Douglas Edward Robertson, 58, the former vice president of…
Soframe, Thales and ArianeGroup have used Eurosatory to frame X-Fire and B-Strike as a single French deep-strike stack, moving from modular rocket artillery to conventional ballistic missiles. The pitch is built around X-Fire’s rapid deployment, foreign-munition compatibility and a ballistic…
Saudia Cargo has launched a global campaign, Reliable Solutions, Certified Excellence, to frame reliability as a function of certification, process control and specialised handling rather than lift alone. The push targets shippers and partners across pharma, perishables, live animals, valuable…
Korean Air will extend its First Class pre-order meal service to long-haul departures from nine overseas cities, bringing advance menu selection to major outstations in the US and Europe. The rollout covers Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Washington…
SIA Engineering Company and Safran Aircraft Engines have agreed to form a Singapore joint venture for LEAP-1A and LEAP-1B maintenance, turning SIAEC’s existing Quick Turn work at Changi North into a fuller engine MRO operation. Safran will hold 51 per…
JetZero has broken ground on its first manufacturing and final assembly campus at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina. The site spans more than 600 acres and will house an 8 million-square-foot factory for the company’s Z4 blended-wing…
The U.S. Air Force has put kinetic counter-drone weapons on display at Tyndall Air Force Base, pairing the Remington M870 shotgun with the SMASH 2000 fire-control system on an M4A1 carbine. The 325th Security Forces Squadron briefed Maj. Gen. Thomas…
JetZero has broken ground on its first manufacturing and final assembly campus in Greensboro, North Carolina, moving the Z4 programme from site selection into construction. The 8 million-square-foot complex spans more than 600 acres near Piedmont Triad International Airport and…
Vietnam Airlines appointed ECS Group as its cargo GSSA in South Korea, a strategic move for its top three cargo markets. The agreement covers cargo representation including sales development, capacity management, operational supervision, digital services, and customer support. ECS Group…
Air France has opened 2026 applications for its Cadet Program, a fully funded pilot training route that feeds directly into the airline and Transavia. The intake runs from 15 June to 31 July and targets candidates ready for a 24-month…
MBDA used Eurosatory 2026 to push its land-strike portfolio beyond the current MdCN family, unveiling the Land Cruise Missile Mk II and pairing it with the Deluge one-way effector. The missile keeps the turbojet, folding-wing architecture and Naval Group Sylver…
Malaysia will replace the ageing Tun Sharifah Rodziah sea base with a Multi-Purpose Command Platform vessel under a government-to-government arrangement with Türkiye. The new mobile forward base is set for Eastern Sabah, where it will extend surveillance and rapid response…
Emirates President Sir Tim Clark has urged the UK government to renationalise Heathrow Airport to break the deadlock over its £33 billion third runway project. Clark argues that public ownership would enable the government to align investors and airlines on…
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr setzt auf eine rasche Öffnung der Lufträume im Nahen Osten. Dann könnte die Gruppe ihr Streckennetz zügig normalisieren und wieder ohne Umwege nach Asien fliegen. Die laufenden Sperrungen zwingen die Airlines der Gruppe weiter zu Ausweichrouten…
KNDS has unveiled CAPINT, a new interim main battle tank concept for France, at Eurosatory in Villepinte. The vehicle pairs an enhanced Leopard 2 A8-derived chassis from KNDS Deutschland with an uncrewed ASCALON turret from KNDS France, carrying a 120…
Airbus inaugurated its second A320 Family final assembly line at the repurposed Jean-Luc Lagardère facility in Toulouse on 15 June 2026, marking the tenth such line globally. This expansion, part of a network split across Hamburg (4), Mobile (2), Tianjin…
Virgin Australia has put Adelaide on its Pets in Cabin map, with first departures set for 23 June 2026 and bookings open now. The expansion adds Adelaide-Melbourne and Adelaide-Gold Coast sectors in both directions, extending a service that began in…
Anuvu has named Simon Sutton chief executive officer, effective 15 June 2026, replacing Joshua Marks. The move puts a media and content operator at the top of an inflight connectivity and entertainment specialist. Sutton joins from a career that includes…
Turkish Airlines has pushed its long-term fleet target back three years, resetting the path to roughly 800 aircraft from 2033 to 2036. The shift comes under Murat Şeker, who took over as chairman in April after nearly a decade as…
Nasmyth Group has cleared AS9100D audits at its new purpose-built site in Sri City, India, and is moving the facility into production for Rolls-Royce aerospace programmes. The plant, built under Nasmyth’s UK-India operating model with Sigma Advanced Systems, is positioned…
Jazeera Airways has appointed Andrew Robert Littledale as chief financial officer, effective 1 July 2026. The airline is bringing in a finance executive with more than 25 years of international experience, including senior roles in aviation. Littledale is a Fellow…
Avincis has widened its fleet renewal programme with an order for 15 Leonardo helicopters, split between 10 AW169s and five AW139s, with deliveries scheduled from 2028 to 2031. The deal follows its separate commitment for 15 Airbus H145s, taking the…
Romania’s outgoing vice prime minister Oana Gheorghiu has branded Tarom a company on a direct flight to ruin, reopening pressure on the state carrier as it burns through cash and fights for survival. Her attack lands amid an EU-approved restructuring…
Air Europa will return to Düsseldorf on 30 November 2026 with a new Madrid-Barajas service in the winter 2026/27 schedule. The route will operate twice daily with Boeing 737-800s, restoring a direct link between the Spanish hub and one of…
Maldives-based beOnd has fallen two months behind on staff salaries as it tries to keep aircraft moving through a cash squeeze. The all-business-class carrier has paused its regular summer Maldives schedule, shifted to charter flying, and tied back pay to…
Vietnam Airlines inaugurated its first nonstop Hanoi–Amsterdam service on 16 June 2026, becoming the first Vietnamese carrier to operate a direct route between Vietnam and the Netherlands. Flight VN83 departed Noi Bai at 3:50 a.m. aboard an Airbus A350, carrying…
The aviation insurance sector has officially pegged the cost of the destroyed Yemenia Airbus A320-233 at $147 million, finalizing a figure previously estimated. This assessment reflects the market value of the aircraft lost during the May 28, 2025, airstrike on…
Nammo used Eurosatory 2026 to present a modular UAV strike package built around the Croatian Orqa MRM2-10 and its N7 66 mm high-explosive anti-tank copper-cone warhead. The warhead weighs 1.5 kg and is claimed to defeat more than 450 mm…
John Cockerill Defense and Arquus used Eurosatory 2026 in Paris to debut Fenris, a 26-tonne 6×6 fire support vehicle built around the Cockerill 3105 turret and its 105 mm gun. The platform was developed in just over a year as…
KLM startet seinen ersten Airbus A350-900 ohne verkaufsfähige World Business Class. Die Zertifizierung der neuen Sitze ist noch offen, daher bleiben die 34 Business-Class-Plätze auf den ersten beiden Auslieferungen zunächst blockiert. Der Flieger soll Ende August 2026 eintreffen und im…