GE Aerospace has won a Defence Innovation Unit contract to advance a liquid-fuelled hypersonic test bed for the Pentagon’s HyCAT programme, moving its Mach 5 Derecho project into the next stage of development. The work will focus on integrating the…
NBAA-BACE 2026 is moving towards a near-full legacy OEM static display as the business aviation event builds out a wider programme ahead of its 20-22 October run in Las Vegas. Boeing Business Jets, Bombardier, Daher, Dassault, Gulfstream, Honda Aircraft, Piaggio…
Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency has ordered its first Airbus H160, selecting the twin-engine helicopter for emergency response duties in Kumamoto prefecture, Kyushu. The aircraft will support rapid aerial reconnaissance and live visual intelligence gathering during major natural disasters,…
Flybondi is moving ahead with a restructuring that would transfer staff to a new company linked to Argentina’s OCA logistics group, with OCA Air emerging as the planned commercial identity. The process begins with ramp and Operations Control Center employees…
Police evacuated Terminal 1 at Berlin Brandenburg Airport on Thursday evening after a woman at a Federal Police service point reported that she had a dangerous substance with her. Officers could not immediately rule out a risk, prompting the clearance…
Latvia has responded after German investigators identified two suspects in the attempted drone attack on Leipzig/Halle Airport, a key cargo hub in Saxony that handles freight linked to Ukraine. The case centres on an early-August incident in which explosives and…
airBaltic has agreed financing terms for an interim funding package of up to €257 million, pending approvals from bondholders and shareholders. The Latvian carrier plans to use the bridge financing to improve liquidity and support its new business plan, with…
Five Rivers Aviation has expanded beyond California after winning the tender to become the sole service provider at Central Wyoming Regional Airport in Riverton, Wyoming. The move gives the business aviation fixed-base operator a full-service presence at KRIW, where ground…
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has backed a proposal to rename Nashville International Airport in honour of the late Dolly Parton, setting up a review by the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. The plan would require changes to the airport’s naming policy…
Emirates has unveiled a new Premium Economy seat for its Airbus A350 fleet featuring a full-height electrically operated privacy divider, a rare design feature for the cabin. The Dubai carrier is positioning the product on its latest A350 services as…
REGENT Craft’s full-scale Viceroy electric seaglider completed its first crewed flight over Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island on Wednesday, carrying two crew members aboard the all-electric wing-in-ground-effect craft. The prototype travelled about 1,956 feet, remained airborne for roughly 30 seconds…
Boeing, Gulfstream Aerospace and West Star Aviation outlined ongoing manufacturing, completions and maintenance work in the St. Louis region during a panel at the Global Aerospace Summit in O’Fallon, Illinois. The session focused on building and sustaining the fleet across…
Emirates has unveiled a new premium economy seat for its Airbus A350, adding a full-height privacy divider that can be raised and locked from the seat controls. The 2-3-2 cabin layout carries 28 seats and puts a feature usually associated…
Russia has repaired most of the oil-refining capacity damaged by Ukrainian drone strikes and has about 10% left to restore, Vladimir Putin said in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on the sidelines of the SCO summit. He also claimed Russian refineries are now…
Island Aviation Services, the operator of Maldivian, is seeking buyers for three De Havilland Canada DHC-8-300 turboprops, identified as MSN 491, 503 and 582. The aircraft are being offered through an expression-of-interest process published in the Maldives government gazette, with…
Air Canada will expand its long-haul network for summer 2027 with new services from Vancouver, Toronto and Montréal to Guangzhou, Oslo, Shannon, Nice, Basel and Dubrovnik, while restoring a daytime Toronto–London Heathrow frequency and lifting Toronto–Shanghai to daily operation. The…
A new Infras study puts Geneva Airport’s 2024 economic contribution at about CHF 3.3 billion in value added and around 22,000 full-time-equivalent jobs, with the airport’s on-site companies generating roughly CHF 1.66 billion directly. The analysis also shows benefits spread…
Swiss cabin crew union Kapers is pressing for stronger protection against violence, threats, coercion and physical assaults against flight attendants, linking the call to a rise in unruly-passenger incidents at Zurich and Geneva airports. On 3 September, the union is…
Air Canada will launch nonstop service between Montréal-Trudeau and Basel-Mulhouse EuroAirport in summer 2027, using the Airbus A321XLR on a four-times-weekly schedule. The route is set to run from 16 June to 23 October 2027 and gives Air Canada a…
Rolls-Royce & Partners Finance (RRPF) will establish a direct aero-engine leasing company in Tianjin’s Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone, extending the joint venture’s footprint into China’s aviation finance market. The new entity, backed by more than 2.3 billion yuan in total…
Airlink has withdrawn its application for a third rugby flypast over Johannesburg’s FNB Stadium after South Africa’s Civil Aviation Authority began reviewing the airline’s low pass over Cape Town’s DHL Stadium on 29 August. The planned flyby had been set…
Airbus has identified an isolated quality issue in the horizontal tail plane of the A330neo, disrupting deliveries through the summer and leaving June and July without any handovers. Only one A330neo reached Starlux Airlines in August as the manufacturer inspected…
Air Force Global Strike Command has declared the MH-139A Grey Wolf operational, clearing the Boeing-built helicopter for nuclear security missions after initial operational capability was reached on 10 August. The first operational unit is at Malmstrom Air Force Base in…
Air Europa is expanding its Air Europa ON programme with a fresh set of service upgrades for long-haul travellers, including new amenities in Business and Economy, a free pet-friendly kit and reinforced onboard catering. The Madrid-based carrier is introducing the…
German astronauts Matthias Maurer and Alexander Gerst have urged Europe to cut its dependence on foreign partners for crewed access to space, calling for stronger sovereign capability as the continent plans for life after the International Space Station. Maurer made…
Amadeus has identified stronger September travel demand to Madrid, driven by the Spanish Grand Prix and Shakira’s Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour. Travel Intelligence data collected on 14 August points to a 5% year-on-year increase in combined domestic…
SpiceJet has ended Boeing 737 MAX operations after its three remaining airworthy jets were ferried out of India, while leases for the aircraft were mutually terminated with lessor BOC Aviation. The move leaves the Indian low-cost carrier with an active…
The US Air Force has awarded Sierra Nevada Corporation $31.8 million to design and develop a post-production ski kit for the C-130J, moving the service closer to a ski-equipped LC-130J capability for polar operations. The work, to be carried out…
Indian regional airline FLY91 has placed a firm order for 40 ATR 72-600 turboprops in a deal worth about $1 billion at list prices, expanding its partnership with the Franco-Italian manufacturer and reinforcing its focus on smaller Indian cities and…
La Caisse and SMBC Aviation Capital have expanded their Maple Aircraft Company Holdings Limited (MACH) aircraft leasing platform to $3 billion from an initial $1.5 billion commitment. Launched in 2024, the vehicle has already fully deployed its original capital ahead…
Beyond Aero is working with Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur and other French airport operators to prepare the infrastructure and refuelling approach needed for liquid-hydrogen business jet operations tied to its BYA-1 concept. The effort centres on how airports could…
Lufthansa and the UFO cabin crew union will resume talks next week on long-running collective bargaining issues, including arrangements for employees affected by the shutdown of Lufthansa CityLine. The renewed dialogue follows mediation, a workshop and exploratory discussions that both…
AirAsia has entered its first codeshare partnership with Pegasus Airlines, opening single-ticket access via Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen to five initial European destinations: London Stansted, Moscow Vnukovo, Ankara, Zurich and Athens. The deal links AirAsia Group and AirAsia X with Pegasus…
Airbus will install an A220 full-flight simulator at the Airbus Asia Training Centre in Singapore, extending the programme’s training reach across Asia-Pacific as regional operators expand their A220 fleets. The simulator is due to enter service in the fourth quarter…
Auterion and Ukrainian joint-venture partner Airlogix have started mass production of more than 5,000 long-range drones for Ukraine in the Munich area, with the first units already completed. The German-backed programme covers two drone models, including one with a range…
Philippine Airlines has taken delivery of its fourth Airbus A350-1000, with the aircraft arriving at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila on Tuesday after a ferry flight from Toulouse. Registered RP-C3513, the twinjet strengthens the carrier’s long-haul fleet as it…
Pivotal has appointed board member Mike Ross as interim chief executive after Ken Karklin stepped down, with the change taking effect on 31 August 2026. The US eVTOL developer is keeping Ross on the board while it searches for a…
Fly91 has placed a firm order for 40 ATR 72-600 turboprops in a deal reported from New Delhi that will support its push into smaller Indian cities and underserved regional routes. Reuters put the list-price value of the order at…
The U.S. Air Force’s EC-130H Compass Call fleet completed its final flight on 2 September, with tail 73-1590 departing Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, under the callsign VOLT01 and returning about six hours later to end operations. The sortie closed…
Airbus has identified a quality problem on the A330neo’s horizontal tail plane that slowed deliveries over the summer before the root cause was fixed and handovers resumed. The disruption affected the widebody programme’s delivery flow from June through August, with…
European carriers have gained an unexpected lift from Asia traffic as disruption in the Middle East pushes more passengers to route through hubs such as Helsinki instead of Dubai. Finnair has emerged as a clear beneficiary, while Lufthansa has also…
Airbus has identified a production quality issue on the A330neo’s horizontal tail plane that slowed deliveries over the summer and brought handovers close to a halt for nearly three months. The company has since identified the root cause, described the…
Namibia’s Works and Transport Ministry has distanced itself from an “unauthorised” document that raised questions about discussions with Ethiopian Airlines over the planned Namibia Air national carrier in Windhoek. The document referenced a possible counter-proposal and technical cooperation, but the…
Pegasus Airlines and Turkish Airlines disrupted several Turkey–Moscow services after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russian airspace was becoming unsafe because of rising drone activity. Flights linked to Istanbul and Antalya were cancelled, turned back or diverted, including services…
DLR’s solar aircraft HAP-alpha has completed its first test flight at Cochstedt airport in Germany, spending about 70 minutes in the air and climbing to a height of 180 metres. The unmanned aircraft is part of the German Aerospace Center’s…
Madrid is set for a strong September in air travel demand, with Amadeus forecasting a 5% year-on-year rise in bookings to the city between 9 September and 4 October. The uplift is being driven by the Spanish Grand Prix and…
Air Cairo will add Luxor to its Cologne/Bonn schedule on 17 October, opening a new weekly Saturday nonstop link between Germany and Upper Egypt. The route gives the airline a fourth direct destination in Egypt from Cologne/Bonn, alongside Cairo, Hurghada…
Pegasus Airlines cancelled several flights to Russia and some aircraft turned back after Ukraine warned that Russian airspace had become dangerous, while flydubai flagged possible delays and diversions on its services. The disruption hit Moscow-area airports hard, with Vnukovo reporting…
Tata Sons has approved in principle a fresh capital injection of more than ₹10,000 crore into Air India, with the release of funds tied to business plans from the airline and other Tata investee companies. The move comes as Air…
Horizon Aircraft has started wind-tunnel testing of ice-protection coupon samples for its Cavorite X7 hybrid-electric VTOL, advancing an early step in its plan to pursue Flight Into Known Icing capability. The work began in July in Toronto, with the Ontario-based…