Discover Airlines will take over seven Lufthansa short- and medium-haul routes in the winter 2026/27 schedule, splitting the flying between Frankfurt and Munich. The programme covers Frankfurt-Copenhagen, Frankfurt-Lyon, Frankfurt-Prague, Frankfurt-Stockholm and Frankfurt-Reykjavik, plus Munich-Belgrade and Munich-Lyon, with some Frankfurt frequencies…
South African Airways still has about ZAR1 billion, or roughly $60 million, in ticket revenue trapped in Zimbabwe after a years-long dispute over repatriating funds from its Harare and Victoria Falls routes. The issue surfaced in a parliamentary briefing on…
Latvia’s Saeima has fast-tracked a law to support airBaltic’s financial stabilisation, authorising the government to buy up to €30 million in new bonds and convert up to €50 million of existing bond claims into capital. Passed in an extraordinary session…
Qantas will equip 16 of its future Airbus A321XLRs and additional Boeing 787-9s with new Business Class suites, with the first A321XLRs carrying the upgraded cabin due to enter service in 2028. The A321XLR will become the first Qantas narrowbody…
Three U.S. Secret Service personnel have been placed on administrative leave as the agency investigates alleged internal misconduct, including possible leaks of sensitive information tied to President Donald Trump’s Qatar-gifted Boeing 747-8 being adapted as a presidential aircraft. The staff…
Qantas will begin retiring its 10 Airbus A380s in 2028, moving the phase-out forward by about four years from the previous plan. The airline is pairing the change with a broader long-haul fleet renewal programme, relying on incoming Airbus A350-1000s,…
flynas has started construction of a new advanced training centre in Riyadh for pilots and cabin crew, with investment reported at more than SAR 200 million, or about $53 million. The facility will rise in the Al Rimal district, less…
Zuri has unveiled an uncrewed hybrid-electric VTOL cargo aircraft aimed at the logistics market, positioning the platform for both civil and defence operations. The aircraft is designed to serve cargo-drone customers that need vertical take-off and landing flexibility alongside longer-range…
Germany’s interior ministry is putting mobile drone-defence technology in place at the country’s major airports by the end of the year, with Cologne/Bonn among the first eight priority sites. The move follows the drone incident at Leipzig/Halle earlier this month…
A small Tecnam P2002JF Sierra crashed into Attersee in Upper Austria near Steinbach am Attersee, and authorities later located the wreck in about 160 metres of water. The two-seat training aircraft had departed from Salzburg before the accident, and police…
Qantas will begin phasing out its Airbus A380 fleet from 2028, bringing forward the retirement of the superjumbo by about four years. The Australian carrier linked the move to the arrival of new long-haul aircraft, including the first Airbus A350-1000ULR…
KLM Cityhopper has removed the last of four long-stored Embraer E195-E2 aircraft from Twente Airport, ending a storage period of more than two years. The aircraft, PH-NXE, has now left the Dutch site as KLM prepares the affected E2 fleet…
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and Safran Helicopter Engines have signed the final contract through their joint venture SAFHAL Helicopter Engines Pvt. Ltd. to begin full development, manufacture, supply and lifecycle support of the Aravalli turboshaft engine. The 3,500-4,000 shp engine is…
Lufthansa Aviation Training will begin training about 50 future Luftwaffe pilots at its Rostock-Laage site from February 2027, taking on the initial flight-training phase for the German air force. The programme covers theory, meteorology, air law, mission planning and early…
Saudia Cargo has started a new scheduled fifth-freedom freighter service between Dhaka and Frankfurt, operating twice a week with Boeing 777-200F aircraft. The route links Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh and Germany, with the first flights beginning on 14 August. The service…
Emirates and Ryanair traded barbs on social media after Ryanair posted a blunt “hate it” reaction to Emirates’ new U-Dream Headrest in economy class. Emirates answered with a legroom dig, turning the exchange into a viral branding skirmish centred on…
South Korean police have referred seven Transport Ministry officials to prosecutors over alleged falsified public statements about the Muan Airport localiser linked to the Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people. The case centres on claims that the officials drafted…
Telemark Air is being set up as a new regional carrier in Norway, with Liberty Aviation identified as the project’s founder. The airline plans to base operations at Notodden Airport in Telemark and is discussing an initial Notodden–Bergen route, using…
Palm Beach County, the Town of Palm Beach and West Palm Beach are pressing a federal appeals court to overturn the FAA’s year-round flight restriction around Mar-a-Lago in Florida, as rerouted commercial traffic pushes more aircraft over nearby residential neighbourhoods.…
American Airlines will expand its complimentary Main Cabin snack selection on selected flights in early October, adding Goldfish crackers in the morning and, later in the day, Goldfish alongside Tate’s Bake Shop chocolate chip cookies and Peterson’s savoury-sweet snack mix.…
Uzbekistan’s Centrum Holding plans to pursue an initial public offering in the first quarter of 2027, with London still under consideration as the listing venue. Founder and chief executive Abdulaziz Abdurakhmanov outlined the timeline in a television interview, while the…
Qantas chief executive Vanessa Hudson has called for an urgent solution to chronic air traffic controller shortages at Sydney Airport after July delays affected about 60,000 passengers. The issue centres on staffing in one of Australia’s busiest air traffic control…
Transavia will launch a new route between Brussels and Ponta Delgada in the Azores in summer 2027, extending its leisure network from Brussels Airport. The Air France-KLM group carrier is building out its Belgian base with another southern Europe link,…
Dnata has turned its existing cargo control centre in Dubai into a Cargo Integrated Command Centre at its Dubai International Airport hub, giving teams a centralised view of cargo operations across Dubai International Airport and Dubai World Central. The upgrade…
Sigma Advanced Systems has secured a further long-term Rolls-Royce contract worth nearly £125 million, extending work for Rolls-Royce Aerospace UK across its facilities in India and through Bromford Precision Solutions in Leicester. The agreement covers aero-engine rings, casings, lock plates…
Riyadh Air has launched a codeshare partnership with Saudia, giving passengers booking international journeys via Riyadh access to a wider domestic network inside Saudi Arabia. The arrangement allows selected Saudia-operated internal routes to be sold under a Riyadh Air flight…
LATAM Airlines Group will invest more than US$25 million to fit more than 60 new Airbus and Embraer aircraft with multi-orbit satellite Wi-Fi from SES. The rollout covers Airbus A320neo, A321XLR and Embraer E195-E2 aircraft, and LATAM Pass members will…
SalamAir will establish Salalah’s first airline base, with flights from the southern Omani city scheduled to begin at the end of October as part of the carrier’s winter 2026 programme. The low-cost airline will initially use its Airbus A320neo and…
Finnair will suspend flights between Helsinki and Dubai for the winter 2026/27 schedule, with services cancelled from 25 October 2026 through 27 March 2027. The carrier is linking the route pause to the unstable security situation in the Middle East…
A pilot survived after a Cirrus SR22 caught fire in flight over Minas Gerais, Brazil, and descended under its whole-aircraft parachute system before being destroyed on the ground near Serra Azul in the Mateus Leme region. The privately operated aircraft,…
EgyptAir has signed a three-season sponsorship agreement with FC Barcelona, becoming the club’s Global Partner and Exclusive Official Airline for the men’s first football team, basketball team and handball team. The deal runs through the 2028/29 season and includes EgyptAir…
Vertical Aviation International and the European Helicopter Association have extended their collaboration to produce EUROPEAN ROTORS through the Milan 2027 edition, with both organisations also committing to continue the partnership through 2032. The agreement secures continuity for Europe’s leading vertical…
United Airlines has cast doubt on the Airbus A321XLR’s practical range for some missions, even as the aircraft prepares to enter the carrier’s transatlantic network from Washington Dulles. Senior vice president of global network planning Patrick Quayle described Airbus’s marketed…
Canada’s Transportation Safety Board has found that accidents involving loss of visual reference are more than twice as likely to involve helicopters as airplanes, based on Canadian accident data from 2000 to 2021. The finding is tied to the fatal…
Regional Express is changing operating procedures for its Saab 340B turboprops after departures drifted off the planned flightpath shortly after takeoff on Australian domestic services. The revision follows incidents in which crews had to take manual control to restore the…
Duncan Aviation has secured Honeywell Aerospace heavy maintenance authorisation for the RE100 APU series at its Lincoln, Nebraska maintenance, repair and overhaul facility, extending its support for the RE100LJ, RE100XL and RE100CS models. The approval allows the business aviation MRO…
Avcon Industries has delivered its first modified King Air B200 mosquito-control aircraft, extending the Kansas-based special-mission aircraft maker’s work into aerial mosquito abatement. The aircraft, a King Air Model B200 adapted for large-area liquid dispersal, was fitted with a removable…
C&L Aviation Group’s C&L Aerospace in Bangor, Maine has been selected by Héroux-Devtek as the factory-authorised repair station for flutter dampers on Bombardier CRJ and Challenger 604, 605 and 650 aircraft. The work is already under way at the component…
Canada’s Transportation Safety Board is pressing helicopter operators and Transport Canada to strengthen defences against loss of visual reference and inadvertent flight into instrument meteorological conditions, warning that such accidents occur in rotorcraft at more than twice the rate seen…
Delta Air Lines will resume daily nonstop service between New York-JFK and Tel Aviv on 6 September, using an Airbus A330-900neo after suspending Israel flights at the end of February. The first eastbound flight will leave New York on 6…
Pem-Air has selected Ramco Aviation Software as the digital backbone for its engine maintenance, repair and overhaul operations, giving the FAA- and EASA-certified provider a single system for planning, supply chain, quality and compliance, engineering and finance. The deal supports…
AerFin is expanding its Boeing 777 material stock at its Miami hub to support operators across North and Latin America. The move gives the company a larger local pool of widebody components, with the aim of shortening lead times, improving…
Lion Group has inaugurated Batam Aero Engine in Batam, adding a new maintenance, repair and overhaul facility for jet and turboprop engines and auxiliary power units at Hangar F of Batam Aero Technic. The launch expands Indonesia’s domestic engine-maintenance capacity…
B&H Worldwide has appointed Matt Silverberg as chief executive officer with immediate effect, replacing Stuart Allen, who moves to chairman and board adviser after 13 years as CEO. Silverberg will be based in the United States, while Allen continues to…
Turkish Airlines has received an exception in Russia allowing flights bound for Vnukovo to use Sheremetyevo or Domodedovo as alternates when Vnukovo cannot accept arrivals, instead of diverting to St Petersburg. The change was already being used on Wednesday night…
ARA Flugrettung marked its 25th anniversary on Saturday with a celebration at Watschiger Alm on the Nassfeld in southern Austria, bringing together rescue crews, regional officials and guests from the helicopter emergency medical services sector. The event highlighted the operator’s…
Delta Air Lines will restart daily nonstop service between New York-JFK and Tel Aviv on 6 September, using an Airbus A330-900neo on the route. The first eastbound flight is due to reach Israel the following day, with the return service…
Vitol is racing to restore jet-fuel supplies in Namibia after a contaminated shipment disrupted operations at Hosea Kutako International Airport in Windhoek and forced some airlines to reroute Europe-bound flights through Angola. Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that the shortage could…
United Airlines is still holding hundreds of lie-flat seats in storage for the Boeing 737 MAX 10, as the aircraft’s certification delay has pushed entry into service years beyond the original plan. Chief executive Scott Kirby described the unused inventory…
Air India and Drukair, Royal Bhutan Airlines have launched an interline agreement that opens single-ticket itineraries between India and Bhutan, with through-baggage handling and coordinated transfers via Delhi. The arrangement connects Air India’s network with Drukair’s services through Delhi, while…