flydubai will launch dedicated freighter operations from Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai on 1 October, using three Boeing 737-800 freighters under a wet-lease agreement with SolitAir. The move gives the carrier dedicated main-deck cargo capacity for the first time,…
Vietravel Airlines has agreed to take 50 Airbus aircraft as it prepares a major fleet expansion from a current base of five jets. The package covers 20 A220s and 30 A321-family aircraft, with deliveries due to begin in 2029, in…
The Federal Aviation Administration has published a feature marking the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and revisiting how the agency moved to land every commercial and private aircraft during the attacks. The piece focuses on the FAA’s response across the U.S.…
Cosmic Aerospace is developing Cosmic One, a four-seat all-electric aircraft designed around the FAA’s new MOSAIC framework, positioning the Colorado-based start-up to target light-sport and training markets with a clean-sheet design. The concept pairs a premium cabin with an embedded-wing…
World2Fly has scheduled a limited-time Airbus A350-900 service linking Amsterdam Schiphol with Bonaire and Curaçao in the final quarter of 2026. The triangular operation is set to run on Tuesdays from 27 October to 1 December, with flight 2W5997 departing…
Horizon Aircraft is positioning its Cavorite X7 against helicopter operators rather than other electric vertical take-off and landing developers, with chief executive Brandon Robinson describing the aircraft as a regional, city-to-city platform for longer-range, higher-speed and all-weather missions. The hybrid-electric…
Northrop Grumman has opened its East Gate 3 manufacturing facility in Layton, Utah, to expand production capacity for the B-21 Raider stealth bomber. The new plant forms part of the company’s East Gate campus, which is planned to reach about…
Algeria will close its airspace to all UAE-registered civilian and military aircraft from midnight on 11 September, after severing diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates. The restriction covers both arrivals and departures, while commercial civilian flights between the UAE…
Eurowings will add two winter routes from Düsseldorf, serving Tallinn twice weekly and Milan-Linate up to twice daily in the 2026/27 timetable. Both routes, which were previously flown only in the summer season, will be operated in winter for the…
AAA Alpine Air Ambulance AG has received Swisstransplant’s Award for Outstanding Partnership 2026 for its organ-transport operations, with the honour presented at the Swisstransplant Symposium in Bern at the end of August. The recognition reflects AAA’s long-running role in time-critical…
Flydubai will launch dedicated freighter operations on 1 October with three Boeing 737-800 cargo aircraft on wet lease from SolitAir, based at Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai. Each aircraft will add 23,000 kg of payload capacity per flight, while…
EGYPTAIR Maintenance & Engineering has expanded its Boeing Airplane Health Management agreement to cover the carrier’s growing Boeing 737 MAX fleet. The deal, unveiled at the El-Alamein International Airshow in Egypt, extends digital aircraft health monitoring beyond EGYPTAIR’s existing widebody…
KLM Cityhopper is celebrating its 60th anniversary today, tracing its roots to 1966 when it began as Nederlandse Luchtvaart Maatschappij and evolved into KLM’s regional feeder arm. The carrier now operates 58 aircraft, serves more than 80 destinations and runs…
A commemorative drone display titled 2,977 Lights Over New York Harbor illuminated New York Harbor on Wednesday night, recreating the Twin Towers at full architectural scale with 2,977 lights, one for each person killed in the 11 September attacks. The…
Canada has launched a national drone marketplace for the Canadian Armed Forces and Coast Guard, awarding initial contracts for six uncrewed systems in a procurement push linked to deeper defence cooperation with Ukraine. The first batch includes four uncrewed aircraft…
Germany has approved additional traffic rights for Emirates to begin serving Berlin-Brandenburg Airport, giving the Dubai carrier a fifth destination in the country alongside Frankfurt, Munich, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. The decision allows up to seven flights a week and excludes…
The Michigan Air National Guard’s 127th Wing is being highlighted in a 9/11 anniversary feature centred on Lt. Col. (Ret.) Tom Froling, who was airborne on a routine F-16 training sortie from Selfridge Air National Guard Base when the attacks…
The 25th anniversary of the 11 September attacks has put fresh focus on how 9/11 reshaped commercial aviation, with AIN Online reviewing the immediate grounding of airlines, the introduction of emergency security procedures and the heavy financial strain that followed.…
Wizz Air has removed Pratt & Whitney engines from three grounded Airbus A321XLRs and transferred them to standard A321neo jets, as the carrier reworks its long-haul narrowbody strategy and tries to keep more of its core network flying. The aircraft…
Japan Airlines has begun a verification project with French maintenance-drone specialist Donecle to use fully autonomous drones for exterior aircraft inspections at its hangars in Japan. The programme centres on Donecle’s Iris GVI system and is designed to cut the…
Algeria has closed its airspace to all civil and military aircraft registered in the United Arab Emirates after breaking diplomatic relations with Abu Dhabi. The restriction takes effect from midnight on 11 September and includes a temporary exemption for commercial…
The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman Systems a $4.84 billion contract for full-rate production of the Common Infrared Countermeasure system, a laser-based self-protection suite for military aircraft. The award covers helicopter platforms including the AH-64 Apache, CH-47 Chinook and…
Iberia Mantenimiento has received approval from Spain’s aviation safety authority to carry out full heavy maintenance on its entire Airbus A350 fleet in-house, with the authorisation granted without restrictions. The move gives Iberia complete maintenance coverage for its A350s and…
Grupo Oesía will develop two critical subsystems for QKD-GEO, the first European geostationary quantum key distribution system. The Spanish technology group has been selected to supply the photon source and the control electronics for the quantum random number generator in…
Sydney Airport will gain a new Shenzhen Airlines link from 14 December, when the carrier starts four-times-weekly services between Shenzhen and Sydney using Airbus A330-300 aircraft. The route will be Shenzhen Airlines’ first scheduled service to Sydney and will bring…
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has unveiled Wildfire, a new unmanned aircraft intended as a lower-cost alternative to the MQ-9A Reaper and a candidate for the U.S. Air Force’s Massed Modular Aircraft programme. The clean-sheet design is aimed at high-volume production,…
Nippon Cargo Airlines has entered a new pilot training partnership with CPaT to support about 200 pilots at the Japan-based cargo carrier. The agreement centres on digital training for NCA’s Boeing 747-8 pilot operation and adds CPaT’s learning tools to…
IATA has released the 2027 editions of its cargo and ground operations manuals, updating standards for dangerous goods, batteries, live animals and airport handling as airlines and handlers face tighter compliance demands and a growing push toward digital workflows. The…
Germany has approved Emirates to begin service to Berlin-Brandenburg Airport, clearing the way for up to seven weekly Dubai-Berlin flights and giving the carrier a fifth destination in the country. The decision, tied to the UAE president’s state visit to…
Germany’s federal government has granted Emirates additional traffic rights that will allow the Dubai-based carrier to add a fifth destination in the country, with Berlin emerging as the likely new route. The move is capped at seven extra weekly frequencies…
Wizz Air will restore its Middle East network for the winter 2026-27 season, bringing back 12 routes and 49 weekly flights across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The schedule includes services to Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Jeddah and…
Germany has approved additional traffic rights for a UAE airline to serve a fifth destination in the country, clearing the way for Emirates to launch daily Dubai-Berlin service via Berlin Brandenburg Airport. The move caps the extra flying at seven…
Algeria will close its airspace to all UAE-registered civilian and military aircraft from midnight on 11 September, while exempting commercial passenger flights between the UAE and Algiers until the end of 2026. The measure follows Algiers’ decision to sever diplomatic…
SWISS has pushed back the transfer of its third Airbus A350-900, HB-IFC “Zug,” to Saturday, 12 September, after previously planning for the aircraft to arrive in Zurich on Friday. The newly built jet is now scheduled to depart Toulouse around…
Iranian missiles damaged multiple American military aircraft at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, including one A-10 Thunderbolt II that lost a wing and about eight F-15 fighters that sustained light damage, in an overnight strike on 8-9 September. The…
The U.S. State Department has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Argentina for four UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters and related equipment, with an estimated value of $140 million. The package is intended to bolster Argentina’s rotary-wing transport fleet and…
Deutsche Lufthansa has formally recorded that Kühne Aviation GmbH indirectly holds just over 20% of its voting rights, or 240.4 million shares, following an estate-related ownership change. The filing links the threshold crossing to the execution of Klaus-Michael Kühne’s will…
Airbus Defence and Space and Unseenlabs have been selected by France’s Directorate-General for Armament to deliver the CASSIOPÉE military signal intelligence satellite system, with the programme announced in Paris on the sidelines of the International Space Summit. The contract renews…
France’s defence procurement agency DMAé has placed an order for four additional Airbus U050 Capa-X tactical drone systems, split evenly between the French Navy and the French Army. Each system includes two unmanned aerial vehicles, taking the total to eight…
NASA has opened a request for information to governors or their designees interested in hosting and sponsoring the new U.S. Space Academy, seeking details on possible locations, site readiness, environmental and regulatory issues, and nearby support networks. The move follows…
France’s Defence Aeronautical Maintenance Directorate has placed an additional order with Airbus Helicopters for the U050 Capa-X tactical drone after evaluating an initial system under the SDTL programme. The contract covers four systems, or eight drones in total, with two…
Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary has rejected claims that a passenger was partly sucked out of a broken window on a Malta Air flight from Thessaloniki to Germany in July, saying the airline will contest that version of events while…
The Transportation Security Administration is still reshaping U.S. airport screening 25 years after the 11 September attacks, with Newark Liberty International Airport among the latest sites to test biometric e-gates for TSA PreCheck passengers. The changes sit alongside the wider…
Amadeus Travel Intelligence has flagged a sharp rise in air bookings to Munich for Oktoberfest 2026, with demand from India up 59.7% year on year and Japan up 30.7%. The travel analytics also show the United States remaining the largest…
London Northwestern Railway will introduce a direct hourly service between Birmingham New Street and Manchester Airport from May 2027, creating the first direct rail link from the West Midlands to the airport in decades. The route will begin in phases,…
Eutelsat has placed an order for 229 additional OneWeb low-Earth orbit satellites from Airbus Defence and Space, in a deal unveiled in Paris during the International Space Summit. The new batch expands the planned Airbus-built OneWeb fleet for Eutelsat to…
Flair Airlines has signed a 15-year agreement with Lufthansa Technik Canada covering engine maintenance and digital services for its 18 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft powered by CFM LEAP-1B engines. The work will be centred in Calgary, where Lufthansa Technik…
Vietravel Airlines has reached an agreement with Airbus for 50 new aircraft, covering 20 A220s and 30 A321-family jets, including A321neo and A321XLR variants. The deal, disclosed in Paris during a state visit by Vietnam’s top leader, will give the…
Wizz Air has parked six of its 10 Airbus A321XLRs and is removing engines from three of the grounded jets for use on A321neos. Two additional XLRs have been temporarily withdrawn from London Gatwick and moved to Katowice, Poland, as…
Korean Air will begin offering free Starlink-based in-flight Wi-Fi from 15 September on selected retrofitted wide-body aircraft, starting with three Airbus A350-900s and one Boeing 777-300ER. The service will be available across all cabin classes, with passengers able to connect…