Air Canada has suspended two employees after their arrest in connection with an RCMP drug-trafficking investigation at Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. The case centres on alleged misuse of secure ground-operations access at the Montreal hub, where investigators believe luggage…
Airlink’s two Embraer E-Jets carried out a planned low-level formation flypast over Cape Town’s DHL Stadium before the South Africa-New Zealand rugby Test on 29 August, prompting an online safety debate after video footage spread widely. The manoeuvre, flown in…
American Airlines is still selling true premium First Class on some long-haul and transcontinental aircraft, even though the cabin was due to disappear by the end of 2024. The remaining product is concentrated on Boeing 777-300ERs and Airbus A321Ts, with…
Qantas chief executive Vanessa Hudson has pressed Australian authorities to tackle chronic air traffic controller shortages at Sydney Airport after July delays affected about 60,000 passengers. The carrier linked the disruption to staffing constraints in the control system at Australia’s…
China’s three biggest state-owned airlines posted first-half losses for a seventh consecutive year, with Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines together losing about 8.2 billion yuan as surging jet fuel costs and weaker route performance weighed on…
TAP Air Portugal has appointed José Eduardo Moreira as its new chief operating officer, replacing Mário Chaves after his resignation. The internal leadership change takes effect on 1 September and keeps the airline’s operational portfolio in the hands of a…
Airlines for America chief Chris Sununu expects U.S. plane ticket prices to stabilise rather than surge further, even as jet fuel remains expensive because of the Iran war. The comments came in a Sunday interview and pointed to a domestic…
EHang’s EH216-S pilotless eVTOL completed its first public flight at Hong Kong Cyberport as part of the city’s Regulatory Sandbox X low-altitude economy trial. The aircraft carried out vertical take-off and landing, low-altitude cruise and hover manoeuvres along a pre-programmed…
American Airlines will resume nonstop service between Miami and Caracas on 3 September, restoring its main Florida-Venezuela route with two daily flights. The operation will use Boeing 737-800 and 737-8 aircraft on one rotation and an Envoy Air Embraer E175…
Lockheed Martin’s Javelin joint venture and Tata Advanced Systems have signed a memorandum of understanding to co-produce the Javelin All Up Round in India. The agreement sets out plans for final assembly and integration in-country, alongside component production, as the…
Syrian Airlines has taken delivery of the first two of eight Airbus A320-family aircraft at Damascus International Airport as part of a fleet-renewal programme linked to the airport’s wider development project with Urbacon Holding. The aircraft, YK-AKI and YK-AKJ, are…
WestJet has completed the restoration of legroom on its refurbished Boeing 737s, finishing the reversal of a densified cabin layout that had drawn passenger backlash. The Calgary-based carrier has returned the affected aircraft to 174 seats from 180, ahead of…
Two Airlink Embraer E190s flew a tightly choreographed pre-match display over DHL Stadium in Cape Town before the South Africa-New Zealand rugby Test, part of the Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry spectacle. The aircraft, registered ZS-YDE and ZS-YAE, passed low over the…
Air Atlanta Europe’s Boeing 747-400 freighter, registered 9H-AKA, diverted to Amsterdam after departing Liège on Thursday with a flap problem that interrupted the climb shortly after take-off. The cargo jet, operating flight CC-2615 to Kinshasa, later landed safely on runway…
Airlink’s pre-match flypast above DHL Stadium in Cape Town drew scrutiny after two Embraer E-Jets appeared to skim just metres above the venue before the Springboks-All Blacks match. Flight-tracking data placed the aircraft’s lowest recorded altitude at about 50 ft…
Qantas will introduce lie-flat Business Suites on a future group of 16 Airbus A321XLRs, extending premium long-haul-style seating to a single-aisle aircraft for the first time. The cabin, due from 2028, is designed for longer domestic and short-to-medium international sectors,…
Air Canada is expanding its mobility-aid travel policy, allowing customers to carry up to three qualifying mobility aids free of charge and adding app-based tracking for loading and unloading status. The Montréal-based carrier is also extending the change to adaptive…
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA has advised cabin crew at US domestic airports not to answer questions from Immigration and Customs Enforcement about coworkers or passengers. The guidance tells flight attendants they do not have to respond, should avoid directing…
Uzbekistan publicly displayed Chinese-built J-10CE fighter jets during Independence Day celebrations in Tashkent on 28 August, confirming the aircraft’s entry into Uzbek military service. State television footage showed at least six of the export fighters, including aircraft landing at Karshi-Khanabad…
A federal jury in the Southern District of Florida convicted Alexander Mamonov, a Florida-based Russian national and former Aeroflot employee, on all 12 counts in a case involving the illegal export of U.S.-origin aircraft parts to Russia and the state-owned…
Turkey’s first production-standard Hürjet completed its maiden flight on 30 August, after ground and taxi tests, in a milestone for Turkish Aerospace Industries’ supersonic advanced jet trainer and light combat aircraft programme. The aircraft is the first in the configuration…
EL AL has added Tel Aviv–San Francisco non-stop service to its network, with bookings now available on its San Francisco fare page. The route is scheduled to begin on 25 October 2026 and will be operated three times weekly, using…
Russia has brought in about 70,000 tonnes of Jet A-1 to shore up aviation fuel supplies after sustained strikes on oil-refining infrastructure cut domestic output. The fuel moved on three tankers from South Korea and Egypt to St. Petersburg and…
Russia has begun bringing in around 70,000 tonnes of Jet A-1 from South Korea and Egypt after repeated refinery disruptions squeezed domestic aviation-fuel output. The cargoes were routed to Vladivostok from Ulsan and to St Petersburg from El Dekheila, reflecting…
Greece and Israel are due to sign agreements in Tel Aviv on Monday to launch Athens’ €3.1 billion Achilles Shield integrated air and missile defence network. The programme will combine Greek Patriot batteries and drones already deployed on the mainland…
NASA launched its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, sending the observatory on its journey to Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2, about 1 million miles from Earth. The…
South Korea’s Defence Acquisition Program Administration has opened bidding for a 14-month concept study on a future fighter beyond the KF-21 Boramae, starting early formal work on a possible sixth-generation aircraft. The KRW 900 million study will help define operational…
Hungarian air force jets scrambled after a stolen Cessna 172 was detected heading toward the Paks nuclear power plant on 29 August, triggering a rapid military response over central Hungary. The aircraft was intercepted by two JAS 39 Gripens and…
The U.S. Air Force’s 325th Fighter Wing at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, has completed Weapon System Evaluation Program-Combat Hammer 26.07, using F-35A Lightning II aircraft from the 95th Fighter Squadron to test air-to-ground precision-guided munitions with live ordnance. The…
Airbus has repainted and repositioned a former Malaysia Airlines A380, MSN114, as a new FlightLab to support tests of next-generation commercial aircraft technologies. The aircraft, now carrying the temporary registration 2-JAYN, arrived in France after repaint work in Shannon and…
The US Air Force has carried out a week-long counter-drone exercise at Hurlburt Field in Florida, testing a layered defence model that combines AI-assisted detection, electronic warfare and a final close-range kinetic response against small unmanned aircraft. The training involved…
A Eurowings flight from Cologne/Bonn to Palma de Mallorca made an unscheduled landing at Paris Charles de Gaulle on Saturday evening after steam was detected in the rear galley. The Boeing 737, operated for Eurowings by Smartwings, carried 131 passengers…
Two Airlink Embraer E-Jets carried out a planned flyover of DHL Stadium in Cape Town before the Springboks-All Blacks match on 29 August, prompting viral footage that made the aircraft appear alarmingly close to the roof. The aircraft, identified as…
A Eurowings Boeing 737 operating flight EW590 from Cologne-Bonn to Palma de Mallorca diverted to Paris Charles de Gaulle on Saturday evening after steam developed in the rear galley. The aircraft landed safely as a precaution, with 131 passengers on…
Ireland’s new Dassault Falcon 6X government jet entered service without the optional FalconEye enhanced vision system after procurement officials declined a direct contract with Elbit Systems over the Israeli company’s links, leaving the €53 million aircraft with a reduced low-visibility…
Airbus has moved a former Malaysia Airlines A380, MSN114, from Shannon to Toulouse and repainted it as a Flightlab for work on future propulsion systems. The aircraft is set to carry a CFM RISE open-fan test engine on the inner…
Boeing’s engineers and technical workers represented by SPEEA have rejected the company’s four-year contract offer and authorised their negotiators to call a strike when the current deal expires on 6 October 2026. The vote covers about 17,000 employees across Boeing’s…
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and Nashville International Airport have backed a proposal to rename BNA in honour of Dolly Parton, moving the idea into the Metro Nashville Airport Authority process. The proposal is due before the authority on 17 September,…
American Airlines will launch OneCabin on 14 September, deploying more than 60 maintenance technicians and dedicated repair teams across six hubs to speed fixes for broken seats, tray tables, in-flight entertainment systems and other visible cabin defects. The internal programme…
Ontario International Airport has secured $4,147,752 from the US Federal Aviation Administration to expand clean-energy infrastructure at its Ontario, California hub. The funding, awarded under the Voluntary Airport Low Emissions programme, will support electric ground support equipment charging installations at…
SalamAir will establish Salalah’s first-ever airline base, opening bookings on Wednesday for flights that begin at the end of October under its Winter 2026 schedule. The Oman low-cost carrier will deploy Airbus A320neo and A321neo aircraft on initial services from…
United Airlines and American Airlines both unveiled summer 2027 network plans on 25 August, with United detailing five Airbus A321XLR-operated transatlantic routes and American separately expanding its own A321XLR Europe schedule. United’s new long-range narrowbody flying will link Newark with…
United Airlines will use the Airbus A321XLR to launch five new transatlantic routes in summer 2027, including Newark–Luxembourg, Washington Dulles–Toulouse, Newark–Ibiza, Newark–Valencia and Newark–Marseille. The aircraft will first enter international service on Washington Dulles–Amsterdam and Washington Dulles–Dublin on 1 December…
Tuifly diverted a Palma de Mallorca-Düsseldorf service operated by a Boeing 737 Max 8 to Ibiza on Friday evening after the aircraft’s cockpit weather radar malfunctioned shortly after take-off. The crew had intended to return to Palma, but bad weather…
South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration has launched a concept study for a next-generation fighter beyond the KF-21 Boramae, opening a 14-month tender worth about 900 million won. The study will define the aircraft’s operational concept, configuration and technology roadmap,…
Azul is operating Brazil’s shortest domestic route and will add the country’s longest domestic service at the end of August, widening the contrast within its home market network. The shortest sector links João Pessoa and Recife in about 35 minutes,…
Germany’s federal government is preparing to publicly blame Russia for the attempted explosive drone attack at Leipzig/Halle airport and to outline countermeasures in the coming days. The incident, which took place on 4 August at the eastern German cargo hub,…
South Korea’s Defence Acquisition Program Administration has opened industry bidding for a concept study on a Korean next-generation fighter, an early step toward a potential sixth-generation aircraft. The 14-month effort seeks proposals on the aircraft’s operational concept, configuration and technology…
Mutinous soldiers attacked Diori Hamani International Airport and Niger’s presidency in Niamey on 29 August, triggering hours of gunfire and explosions around the capital’s main air hub and the presidential district. The airport site, which hosts a military air base…
easyJet and Apollo have pushed back the timetable for Apollo’s £5.7 billion takeover plan, extending the deadline for publication of the scheme document to 15 October. The revised schedule delays shareholder meetings into the week of 9 November, while the…