Ampaire has closed a $19 million Series B financing round backed by DiamondStream Partners and strategic investors including Alaska Airlines and International Airlines Group. The Long Beach, California-based hybrid-electric propulsion developer will use the new capital to push commercialisation of…
Eurowings will restart Dubai services from Berlin, Stuttgart and Cologne/Bonn on 25 October, ending a nearly eight-month suspension linked to security disruption in the Middle East. The Lufthansa subsidiary will bring back the routes with the start of the winter…
A technical partial outage at Zurich Airport reduced operational capacity for arrivals and departures on Wednesday, disrupting Apron Control functions and forcing the hub onto a manual fallback procedure. The system affected departure planning, electronic coordination with Skyguide and Eurocontrol,…
Saxony Economics Minister Dirk Panter is calling for clearer nationwide rules on drone defence for companies operating critical and highly sensitive facilities in Germany, arguing that responsibilities must be defined more precisely between the federal government, the states and industry.…
FAI rent-a-jet has expanded its charter fleet with another Bombardier Global 6000, its second such addition this year. The aircraft, registered D-AFAN and bearing manufacturer serial number 9471, is based at the company’s Nuremberg headquarters and is available immediately for…
Airbus has started work on a major expansion of its Belfast A220 wing facility, with completion planned for the first half of 2028 as the company prepares for production of 13 aircraft a month by then. The project will add…
Stratos has acquired an Airbus A321-200 on lease to Air Transat, bringing the Canadian leisure carrier in as a new client while expanding the company’s managed fleet. The aircraft was sourced from a major lessor, and the transaction also adds…
Omni Táxi Aéreo has selected Honeywell Aerospace’s IntuVue RDR-7000 weather radar for its entire fleet of 33 Leonardo AW139 helicopters. The fleet-wide upgrade targets offshore missions, where earlier weather detection and dependable operations are central to safety and scheduling. The…
Hydrogen-aircraft developer Stralis has shut down after a taxi test, ending operations as fundraising became harder amid weak and uncertain commercial demand for hydrogen aviation. The Brisbane-based company had been developing hydrogen-electric propulsion systems for aircraft, including retrofits and future…
TAAG Angola Airlines will launch a Luanda–Dakar–Praia service on 31 October 2026, restoring its Cape Verde link and creating a new West African triangle route. The operation is set to begin with the opening of the IATA winter 2026/27 season,…
AIR ONE has appointed Ilya Gavrilin as Business Development Director APAC, with the Hong Kong-based role focused on expanding the carrier’s scheduled and charter freighter business across Asia-Pacific. The move centres on AIR ONE’s Boeing 777F and 747F operations and…
Turkish Airlines operated a Boeing 777-300ER charter from Perth to Turin on 11 August, setting a company record for its longest nonstop flight. The special service carried Juventus home after the club’s Australia trip and covered about 13,800 km in…
FlightPath3D has extended its long-running partnership with Gogo, with its mobile-first moving map now flying on more than 1,000 aircraft equipped with Gogo Vision worldwide. The service is integrated with Gogo’s inflight entertainment platform and is available to passengers on…
American Airlines will retrofit its narrow-body fleet with seatback screens at every seat and a larger premium cabin, starting with new Airbus and Boeing deliveries in 2028 before extending the programme across the existing fleet. The Fort Worth-based carrier plans…
A Bombardier Global 5000 operated by Germany’s Bundeswehr Flugbereitschaft is set to leave the Seychelles after an unscheduled landing forced by a technical problem during a training flight from Egypt to Réunion. The aircraft had been parked on Mahé while…
Germany’s aircraft accident investigation office is examining a Lufthansa Airbus A380 after the aircraft touched down too early at Munich Airport and damaged runway threshold lighting on the southern runway. Flight LH459 from San Francisco landed safely on Monday with…
United Engine Corporation’s Klimov division in St Petersburg has completed the design phase of the VK-1600S turboprop and approved the engine layout for small aircraft, including the An-2 and TVS-2DTS. The next step is a demonstrator engine and a dedicated…
Turkish Airlines plans to resume Havana service on 25 October 2026, restoring an Istanbul–Havana link with Boeing 787-9 aircraft for the Northern winter 2026/27 season. The route is scheduled at three frequencies a week and is already visible in the…
India’s National Company Law Tribunal will rehear insolvency petitions against SpiceJet after the airline reached a last-minute settlement with aircraft lessor Aviator ML, delaying a ruling that had already been prepared. The batch concerns eight petitions over unpaid dues linked…
Rosaviatsiya has issued a single type certificate for the Tupolev Tu-204 and Tu-214 family, replacing four separate approvals for the different variants. The move covers the Tu-204, Tu-204-100V, Tu-204-300 and Tu-214, and is expected to simplify fleet support, reduce operating…
Airbus is working towards a tentative first flight for the A350F in late September, with 24 September understood to be the preferred target and early October also possible. The schedule remains provisional, but if it holds it would leave the…
Flybondi’s website became inaccessible on Tuesday, displaying a 504 Gateway Time-out that prevented passengers from buying tickets, changing reservations or completing online check-in across the Argentine low-cost carrier’s network. The outage hit while the airline was already under pressure from…
Germany’s BFU has released new findings on the Munich incident involving a Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9, confirming that the aircraft lifted off late on Saturday, its tail struck the runway during rotation and tyre marks matching the jet were found…
SkyAlps Europe s.r.o., the Bratislava-based Slovak subsidiary linked to SkyAlps, is targeting an air operator certificate and operating licence in September and plans to start flying with two de Havilland Dash 8-400 turboprops from the group’s existing fleet. The first…
Netflix on Wednesday began streaming Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing, Rory Kennedy’s documentary follow-up to her 2022 film on the company. The new feature revisits the 737 MAX tragedies in Indonesia and Ethiopia, which killed 346 people, and examines allegations…
Somali Airlines is preparing to resume scheduled passenger flights in September 2026 from Mogadishu, with operations expected to start from Aden Adde International Airport after about 35 years on the ground. The government-backed revival of the national carrier is in…
American Airlines will restore seatback screens on its narrowbody fleet and expand premium seating across those aircraft in a major cabin overhaul unveiled in Fort Worth, Texas. The rollout starts with new Airbus and Boeing deliveries in 2028, then moves…
Vietnam Airlines’ Boeing 787-9 VN-A867 was not incorrectly loaded when it suffered a takeoff incident in Munich on 15 August, narrowing the focus of the investigation into the flight preparation for VN34 to Hanoi. A load sheet seen by sources…
ATR has identified 209 domestic routes in Indonesia that it считает economically viable for regional turboprops, with combined annual demand of about 16 million passengers. The study highlights a sizeable opportunity outside Java, where most of the routes are concentrated,…
Qantas and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau have disclosed that an Airbus A380 completed two passenger sectors with a 33-centimetre maintenance work light left inside its left wing after servicing in Sydney. The aircraft, registered VH-OQK, later flew to Dallas-Fort…
Almost half of Germany’s government aircraft movements in the first half of 2026 took place without passengers, after the Bundeswehr flight service recorded 308 passenger-carrying legs and 305 repositioning flights. The figures, released by the Defence Ministry in response to…
Alliance Aviation Services has appointed former flyadeal chief executive Steven Greenway as its next chief executive, with the handover scheduled for 1 October. Current chief executive Stewart Tully will remain in place until 29 October to support the transition at…
Korean Air will launch seasonal nonstop flights between Seoul Incheon and Melbourne from 18 December 2026 to 14 March 2027, using Boeing 787-9 aircraft. The service will operate three times a week, on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, with departures timed…
ATR has identified 209 potentially viable domestic routes in Indonesia, representing an estimated market of about 16 million passengers a year. The network study uses the company’s MobilityMonitor data to match travel patterns with existing airport infrastructure, highlighting a large…
Air India Group plans to induct more than 100 aircraft over the next two years, extending a fleet expansion and retrofit programme covering Air India and Air India Express. The additions will include Boeing and Airbus aircraft already in the…
Chinese state-linked contractors dominate the shortlist for Ethiopia’s $12.5 billion Bishoftu International Airport project, with 15 of 33 positions across the main civil works packages. Ethiopian Airlines completed prequalification in April and has now advanced bidders for the megaproject, which…
Asia-Pacific carriers have delivered sharply different second-quarter results as a fuel-price spike linked to Middle East conflict hit margins across the region. AirAsia posted a quarterly loss and moved to trim third-quarter capacity by 20% to 25%, while peers including…
Etihad Airways has delayed the planned start of its Abu Dhabi-Asmar a service from 7 November to 29 March 2027, shifting the route into next summer’s schedule. The Eritrea capital service is now set to operate four times a week…
Air New Zealand is extending its automated passenger rebooking system to international cancellations, aiming to cut disruption handling for most customers on larger aircraft to under 20 minutes. The upgrade expands a tool first introduced on domestic flights in mid-2025…
Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways will coordinate departure times on the Tokyo Haneda-Okayama domestic route from the winter timetable period beginning in late October 2026, in their first schedule alignment on a domestic service. The change is designed to…
Flybondi is preparing a creditor-protection filing in Argentina as its financial and operational crisis worsens, with Buenos Aires court action already under way over tax debt and multiple creditor claims. The low-cost carrier, controlled by Leonardo Scatturice and operating as…
American Airlines will install seatback screens at every seat across its narrowbody fleet, reversing a long-standing strategy that relied on passengers’ own devices for inflight entertainment. The rollout starts with new Airbus and Boeing deliveries in 2028 and will extend…
Vietnam Airlines is facing a fresh line of inquiry after a Boeing 787-9 operating flight VN34 from Munich to Hanoi returned to Munich Airport following a takeoff problem on 15 August. The aircraft landed safely but was left disabled on…
Astronics has raised its full-year 2026 revenue guidance to between $1.02 billion and $1.04 billion after posting record second-quarter results, putting the aerospace supplier on track to top $1 billion in annual sales for the first time. Second-quarter sales reached…
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority board is due to vote on Wednesday on a $15.5 billion capital overhaul for Washington Dulles International Airport, a plan tied to President Donald Trump’s earlier redevelopment push and lifting the airport’s total programme to…
Alaska Airlines flight attendants have filed a formal grievance over staffing and workload on Alaska-branded Boeing 787 international flights, arguing that the current main-cabin crew complement cannot deliver the service advertised to passengers. The dispute centres on long-haul 787 operations…
Berkshire Hathaway increased its stake in Delta Air Lines by 44% in the second quarter, ending June with 57.3 million shares valued at about $5.37 billion. The move came as Greg Abel continued to deploy Berkshire’s cash pile and extended…
The FAA has opened a draft advisory circular on flightdeck system controls for public comment, inviting feedback on updated guidance for cockpit interfaces used on aircraft certification projects. The draft covers human factors, touchscreens, soft controls, speech recognition and traditional…
Global Jet Capital’s latest business aviation market update shows the bizjet sector holding steady while backlogs continue to expand, with backlogs rising nearly 20% in the second quarter. The report, published by AIN on 18 August, points to a market…
Flybondi is facing mounting disruption in Argentina after courts ordered freezes on its bank accounts over tax debts to ARCA, while its website went offline with a 504 error and flights remained suspended for a 12th consecutive day. The low-cost…