Ein Luftfrachtfehler hat den österreichischen Zulieferer FACC in St. Martin im Innkreis mit einem extremen Fehlrouting konfrontiert: In acht gekühlten Boxen lagen menschliche Überreste statt der erwarteten Teile. Die Sendung war aus den USA über München eingetroffen und sollte nach…
The B-52 crash at Edwards Air Force Base is a reminder that this airframe still sits inside the U.S. test and deterrence architecture. The bomber was on a routine test mission supporting radar modernization, carrying eight people, when it went…
Vietnam Airlines has appointed ECS Group as its cargo GSSA in South Korea. The move gives ECS Group sales and service responsibility across a market Vietnam Airlines views as one of its largest cargo lanes in Asia, with coverage extending…
Gogo has cleared a new retrofit path for Dassault Falcon 7X and 8X operators after Dassault Falcon Jet MRO secured FAA and EASA STCs for the Galileo HDX antenna. The approval lets the business jets take the electronically steered HDX…
Safran has named Daniela Schwarzer as an independent director, effective 1 July 2026, after Patricia Bellinger stepped down from the board and the Appointments and Compensation Committee for family reasons. Schwarzer will serve the balance of Bellinger’s term through the…
Safran has launched Land OmniGuard, a counter-drone solution for operational environments. The new land-focused system extends the company’s anti-UAS portfolio into force protection, battlefield security and critical-site defence, targeting detection and neutralisation of drone threats in mobile and fixed deployments.…
The Army’s Ivy Mass exercise showed that electronic attack does not have to be obvious to work. At Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site, the 4th Infantry Division and NGC2 teams ran division-scale command and control through combined jamming, space, GPS and…
Canada has opened negotiations to buy Leonardo’s M-346 advanced jet trainer, after Mark Carney and Giorgia Meloni met on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains. The move puts the Royal Canadian Air Force on a path toward a…
MBDA and Safran Electronics & Defense have entered the final phase of negotiations with France’s DGA for the THUNDART long-range land strike system, replacing the aging LRU rocket artillery. The 150 km precision strike weapon, designed and produced entirely in…
PiLogic has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to test its satellite fault-detection and failure-prediction software on spacecraft electrical and power subsystems. The company will integrate its Exact AI inference engine to…
Ryanair has attacked the EU’s revised air passenger rights deal after lawmakers agreed that fares must display hand luggage from the first booking screen. The carrier said the change forces higher headline prices and will distort fare comparison, even as…
EDGE Group has launched EDGE Europe in Paris, giving the Abu Dhabi defence group a French-registered platform with a Chaillot headquarters and an engineering and manufacturing hub in Bordeaux. The move shifts EDGE from an export-led presence to a local…
Royal Air Maroc has added wet-leased Airbus A330-900neo capacity on its Casablanca-Montreal service for June. The aircraft, Corsair-operated as F-HETE under an ACMI deal, is scheduled on AT208 and AT209 from 12 to 21 June on a reduced pattern, then…
Poland has frozen the handover of its remaining MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine until a bilateral drone-technology arrangement is completed. Deputy Defence Minister Cezary Tomczyk said the aircraft will move only after the technical terms of the exchange are finalized, with…
Gilat Satellite Networks will buy most of Comtech Telecommunications’ Satellite & Space Communications segment for $157.5 million in cash, with $10 million paid at signing. The boards of both companies approved the transaction unanimously, and closing is targeted for the…
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…