Nigeria’s safety investigators have traced the Enugu Air runway excursion in Benin to a combination of braking and airfield conditions after an Embraer ERJ 170-100LR touched down well beyond the threshold and overran Runway 05 at Oba Akenzua II Airport.…
Hundreds of passengers spent the night at Bergen Airport after an air traffic controllers’ strike triggered severe disruption across western Norway, with Avinor warning of significant consequences for flight operations. The labour action began on Friday after talks failed, forcing…
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating a taxiing conflict at Sydney Airport involving a Qantas Airbus A321 and a Qantas Boeing 737, with the crew of the departing A321 stopping after spotting the arriving jet approaching from the left.…
Saab publicly displayed a full-scale concept model of its A3-001 uncrewed combat aircraft at the Swedish Armed Forces Air Show at Malmen Air Base in Linköping on 22 August 2026. The concept is positioned as a future collaborative combat aircraft…
The United Arab Emirates has completed massive metal cage-like protective structures around fuel storage tanks near Dubai International Airport, in a move designed to reduce vulnerability to drone attack. The passive defences, built on the outskirts of the airport, form…
An 11-member drug-smuggling group has been convicted after trying to move 460 kilograms of cannabis worth £13.8 million into the UK in 22 suitcases routed from Thailand via Paris Charles de Gaulle to Birmingham Airport. The operation used excess-baggage fees…
A 52-year-old woman was stung by a scorpion at Düsseldorf Airport after the animal had been hiding in her jacket following a trip from Kos. Airport emergency services treated her on site before she was transferred to a university clinic,…
Delta Air Lines flight attendants will have to collect all airline-provided pre-departure drinks and related service items before aircraft pushback from 1 September 2026, after the Federal Aviation Administration moved to enforce an existing surface-movement rule more strictly. The change…
The U.S. Department of State has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Norway for 21 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters and related equipment, with an estimated value of $2.3 billion. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company based in Stratford, Connecticut, is…
Saab has unveiled the A3-001, a full-scale concept for a future collaborative combat aircraft, at the Swedish Armed Forces’ anniversary air show at Malmen Air Base in Linköping. The uncrewed design is intended to operate alongside the JAS 39 Gripen…
The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $364 million Foreign Military Sale to Italy for 5,031 air-to-air Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II guidance sections and related equipment. The package, with BAE Systems as principal contractor, is intended to…
Saab unveiled a full-scale concept model of its A3-001 uncrewed combat aircraft at the Swedish Armed Forces Air Show at Malmen Air Base in Linköping on 22 August, presenting a future combat-air system designed to operate alongside manned fighters such…
China’s new Y-15 four-engine turboprop tactical cargo aircraft has appeared in its clearest images yet, revealing a prototype built by Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation that appears aimed at the country’s medium-lift military transport requirement. The photos show a ramp-equipped rear fuselage,…
Taiwan has begun receiving its first two new-build F-16V Block 70 fighters from a 66-aircraft order, with the jets departing the United States on 17 August and later confirmed en route to the island after stops in Hawaii and Guam.…
The Swedish Air Force has carried out the first launch of a TAURUS KEPD 350 cruise missile from a JAS 39 Gripen C at the Vidsel Test Range in northern Sweden. The live firing, disclosed publicly on 21 August, was…
Boeing has started diverting funds from early-acceptance incentives into strike preparations after members of SPEEA, its 17,000-strong white-collar union in Washington state and nearby locations, rejected a four-year contract offer and backed strike action. The dispute centres on engineers, scientists…
Iraqi Airways has resumed direct flights to Iran after a wartime suspension, restarting services first to Rasht in northern Iran and planning a wider return to Tehran and Mashhad. The schedule restoration begins with nine weekly flights to Rasht, while…
GKN Aerospace has unveiled a new uncrewed aerial vehicle demonstrator in Trollhättan, Sweden, less than a year after launching the programme with Sweden’s Defence Materiel Administration and the Swedish Armed Forces. The project, launched in November 2025, is scheduled to…
Lufthansa’s Airbus A350-900 in the airline’s 100-year anniversary livery diverted to Nuremberg on 21 August after bad weather disrupted arrivals into Munich, before continuing to its destination shortly afterwards. The aircraft, D-AIXL, had been operating flight LH743 with passengers on…
American Airlines Flight 2398 landed safely at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport on Friday after a passenger laptop caught fire in the cabin of an Airbus A321 carrying 133 people from Atlanta. Emergency crews met the aircraft on arrival, and…
Royal Air Maroc has opened its first direct Casablanca–Los Angeles passenger service, using Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft on a three-times-weekly schedule. The route links Casablanca Mohammed V with Los Angeles and extends the carrier’s transatlantic network with a new West…
Menzies Aviation has begun a proof-of-concept trial of AI-powered cargo measurement and build-up technology at its Heathrow cargo operations with computer vision specialist CIND. The pilot uses CIND’s Dimensioner In-Motion system to measure freight as it moves through the warehouse,…
A Cessna 150 collided with a Pennsylvania State Police Bell 407 helicopter near Carlisle Regional Airport in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, killing the pilot of the light aircraft and injuring two troopers on board the helicopter. The crash happened during a…
Birdie Jet, the Malaysian charter and business-aviation operator based at Subang Airport in Kuala Lumpur, has received its air operator certificate from Guernsey’s 2-REG registry for a Learjet 55 registered as 2-BRDJ. The approval, granted after checks and a proving…
EUROCONTROL’s latest summer traffic briefing shows European airspace continuing to run at record levels, with 37,659 flights on 24 July 2026, the fourth daily traffic peak of the season. July demand finished 2% to 3% above a year earlier and,…
A Swedish-registered seaplane overturned in the water off the Danish island of Læsø on Friday evening after a takeoff attempt near Storedal Beach, leaving a Swedish pilot and a Norwegian passenger to swim ashore without injury. North Jutland emergency crews…
Oslo Airport will suspend air traffic for five hours on Sunday morning as a strike by Norwegian air traffic controllers disrupts operations at Norway’s busiest hub. Avinor has set the closure window from 06:30 to 11:30 local time, with major…
Boeing’s unionised engineers and technical workers have rejected the company’s four-year contract offer and authorised their negotiators to call a strike when the current agreement expires on 6 October. The vote covers about 17,000 SPEEA members at Boeing facilities in…
The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $364 million Foreign Military Sale to Italy for 5,031 WGU-59B/B guidance sections for the air-to-air version of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS-II). BAE Systems is the principal contractor for…
Hong Kong International Airport handled 5.62 million passengers in July 2026, up 8.4% from a year earlier, while cargo throughput fell 1.9% to 422,000 tonnes. Passenger growth was driven by stronger transfer and transit traffic, even as freight remained under…
Airbus has started building a 6,221 sq m extension at its Belfast wing facility to support higher A220 output, with the programme aimed at reaching 13 aircraft a month by 2028. The project in Belfast will expand the site’s wing-manufacturing…
A Swedish Air Force JAS 39 Gripen C has launched a Taurus KEPD 350 cruise missile for the first time during a test at the Vidsel Test Range in Norrbotten. The live firing, carried out on Thursday, gives Sweden a…
Air Algérie will expand its long-haul network from Algiers with new services to Shanghai and New Delhi in late October, using Airbus A330-900neo aircraft. The Shanghai route is scheduled to begin on 26 October, while New Delhi is due to…
Pratt & Whitney Canada has seen the European Commission close an antitrust investigation over alleged restrictions in the spare-parts aftermarket after the RTX subsidiary amended contractual clauses tied to suppliers in the European Economic Area. The decision removes a regulatory…
The US Department of Homeland Security is considering an immediate start to in-house Boeing 737-700 flights, signalling a possible shift away from relying solely on outside charter capacity for its immigration-removal operation. The move centres on a government-owned fleet in…
A US appeals court has vacated a Transportation Department order that would have ended Delta Air Lines and Grupo Aeroméxico’s transborder joint venture, allowing the carriers to keep coordinating services on Mexico-United States routes. The ruling leaves their antitrust immunity…
Air Canada, United, Korean Air, Delta Air Lines and Qantas are moving into a fresh wave of long-haul route launches designed to test demand in thin or less-proven markets. The services include new or planned links between San Francisco and…
A Beechcraft King Air 350 struck a deer during the landing roll at Bella Bella Airport in Canada, leaving all seven occupants unharmed. The wildlife strike affected the turboprop as it was completing its arrival, underscoring the operational risk that…
Two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees died when a USACE-chartered Cessna 441 crashed in western Alaska near Cape Newenham, the remote radar-site location where the aircraft was travelling. The Alaska District confirmed the fatalities and the crash of the…
Google and the UK government have launched Operation Blue Skies, a 30-month trial using artificial intelligence to predict and help avoid climate-warming contrails across Shanwick airspace, the eastern half of the North Atlantic corridor. The programme will test whether small…
A chartered Cessna 441 crashed west of Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport in southwest Alaska on Thursday, killing all eight people on board. The twin turboprop, operated by Anchorage-based Security Aviation, had departed Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport…
Lufthansa has started Starlink-powered Wi-Fi on its first A320neo, while American Airlines is overhauling its narrowbody fleet with more premium seating, 4K seatback screens, Bluetooth audio, USB-C charging and Starlink from 2027. The parallel moves underline how single-aisle cabins are…
Klatt Works has added Gulfstream Aerospace as an approved SAVED supplier, widening access to its oxygen-mask head-up display system for business aviation operators. The arrangement links the cockpit safety product more closely with Gulfstream aircraft support and provisioning, with the…
United Airlines flight UA957 turned back to Geneva on 20 August after the crew declared an emergency shortly after departure for Newark. The Boeing 767-300ER landed safely back at Geneva Airport and later taxied to a stand, with one report…
Fraport has put two fully electric aircraft tow tractors from Goldhofer into service at Frankfurt Airport, with a third vehicle already on order. The E-Phoenix units are used to move large passenger aircraft on the apron, including for pushback and…
Lufthansa and Munich Airport have expanded their stopover programme to passengers travelling from China, India, Japan, South Korea and Thailand, widening access to a Munich layover offer that can now be booked immediately. The joint product lets eligible travellers extend…
Lufthansa City Airlines is working through a labour dispute after delays in applying agreed pay increases and tariff measures for cockpit and cabin crew. Verdi has accused the Lufthansa unit of falling into payment arrears, while the company maintains that…
Boeing’s largest white-collar union, SPEEA, was due to release results on Friday from voting on a contract offer covering engineers and technicians in Seattle. The ballot closed the same day, after a tentative agreement reached in late July and endorsed…
Chicago will break ground later this year on the first phase of The New Concourse E at O’Hare International Airport, moving the airport’s ORDNext modernisation programme into its next major stage. The project will add 14 gates in the opening…
Nav Canada will increase customer service charges for air navigation services from 1 September, lifting the average net rate by 1.92% across its Canadian network. The change includes an average Base Rate rise of 2.04% and an average Temporary Rate…