Industry
Airbus Opens Integrated A320 Delivery Center In Toulouse As Rate Targets Rise
By Daniel Okafor Airbus has inaugurated a new integrated delivery center for the A320 family on its Jean-Luc Lagardère site nor...
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Wizz Air Adds Hamburg–Pristina Four Weekly Flights From Mid-December
By James Holloway Wizz Air will open a new Hamburg–Pristina route on December 15, 2026, operating four weekly round trips on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, Hamburg Airport said in a statement carried by a...
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Airlines
Charleroi Controllers Set 24 Night Strikes Through October 10 Over Pay
By Marco Bianchi Air traffic controllers employed by Belgian ANSP Skeyes at Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL) will walk ou...
Airlines
Senate Bill Would Cut Half Of Washington National Beyond-Perimeter Flights
By James Holloway Virginia Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner have floated a draft “DCA Air Safety Act” that would permanently ...
Aircraft
Air Canada Pulls Airbus A321XLR Off Toronto–Heathrow Before First Flight Over Cargo Limits
By Elena Vargas Air Canada has pulled its brand-new Airbus A321XLR off Toronto Pearson–London Heathrow before a single revenue ...
Airlines
easyJet France Pilots Postpone Strike To September 24–25 As Roster Talks Restart
By Marco Bianchi easyJet pilots based in France have postponed a threatened walkout from September 13-14 to September 24-25 whi...
Airlines
Volaris Adds Guadalajara Flights To Atlanta, Boston, Nashville And Washington Dulles
By Daniel Okafor Volaris is thickening its Guadalajara United States map with four additional nonstops this October, extending ...
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Icelandair Mechanics Vote For Indefinite Strike Starting September 23
By James Holloway Icelandair licensed aircraft mechanics have voted for an indefinite strike beginning at 00:01 on September 23, raising the prospect of widespread schedule cuts just as autumn traf...
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Aircraft
Condor Airbus A320 Forced Into Frankfurt Curfew Go-Around At 875 Feet
By Elena Vargas Condor flight DE1809 turned a late Friday night from Sardinia into a textbook Frankfurt curfew near-miss. On Se...
Airlines
British Airways Suspends Heathrow–Abu Dhabi Restart Plans For 2027
By James Holloway British Airways has scrubbed its planned Heathrow–Abu Dhabi restart from forward schedules, leaving the Unite...
Airlines
Delta Air Lines Adds Los Angeles Flights To Vancouver, Palm Beach And Newark
Delta Air Lines is thickening its Los Angeles International Airport network with three clear additions that do not rely on the ...
Aircraft
Virgin Atlantic Accelerates Airbus A330-300 Retirements As SAS Takes Five Jets
Virgin Atlantic is pulling its remaining Airbus A330-300s from the network earlier than planned, with most of the airframes lin...
Aircraft
Emirates Keeps Airbus A380 Off Washington Dulles All Winter And Cuts Düsseldorf Superjumbo Flying
Emirates is rewriting its winter superjumbo plan for two key long-haul cities. Simple Flying reported on September 14 that upda...
Routes
Virgin Atlantic Cuts Five Heathrow Long-Haul Routes Including Dubai, Riyadh And Three Caribbean Cities
Virgin Atlantic has quietly redrawn its Heathrow long-haul map. A September 13 Simple Flying review of Cirium schedules shows t...
Industry
Southwest Airlines Plans To Retire Its Boeing 737-700 Fleet By 2031 As MAX 7 Arrives
Southwest Airlines is preparing to close a chapter that defined its rise. According to a September 14 report by Simple Flying d...
Aircraft
American Airlines Completes First Boeing 737 MAX Landing Gear Exchange With Boeing
Boeing’s Landing Gear Exchange program has reached the 737 MAX with American Airlines. Simple Flying reported on 14 September 2...
Aircraft
Amazon Suspends Operations With 21 Air After Miami Boeing 767 Overrun
Amazon has cut flying with the contractor behind last week’s fatal Miami cargo overrun. AirlineGeeks reported on 14 September 2...
Aircraft
Emirates Puts Boeing 777-300ER On Dubai–London Gatwick EK011/012 In Early 2027
Emirates is fine-tuning metal on one of its four daily Dubai–London Gatwick rotations for early 2027. AeroRoutes reported on 14...
Airlines
airBaltic Files For Chapter 11 In New York With €350 Million DIP Financing
airBaltic has taken its restructuring into a U.S. courtroom. On 14 September 2026 Air Baltic Corporation and certain subsidiari...
Industry
Etihad Unveils Airbus A330neo Beyond Borders Cabins With Four First Suites From 2027
Etihad Airways used Arabian Travel Market in Dubai on 14 September 2026 to unveil Beyond Borders, a cabin and guest-experience ...
Aircraft
Icelandair’s Northern Lights Boeing 757-200 TF-FIU Scrapped After Parts Harvest
Icelandair’s most famous Boeing 757 is gone for good. Simple Flying reported on 13 September 2026 that TF-FIU, the hand-airbrus...
Routes
American Airlines Plans Airbus A321XLR Flights On Miami–Latin America Routes
American Airlines is preparing to take the Airbus A321XLR south from Miami. Simple Flying reported on 13 September 2026 that a ...
Aircraft
Emirates Opens Dubai–Helsinki On Airbus A350 And Adds Hamburg, Malta And Larnaca
Emirates is opening Dubai–Helsinki on the Airbus A350 from 1 October 2026 and will push the same type onto more European and Me...
Aircraft
Delta Air Lines Moves Atlanta–Barbados To Daily Boeing 737-800 Flights This December
Delta Air Lines is turning its Atlanta–Barbados leisure link into daily winter flying. Caribbean Journal reported on 13 Septemb...
Aircraft
TAROM Schedules First Boeing 737 MAX Commercial Flight From Bucharest To Amsterdam
TAROM is moving Romania’s first Boeing 737 MAX from delivery ceremony into revenue service, with local reporting stating the in...
Airlines
UK NATS Outage Reportedly Triggered By Military Flight Plan Data Anomaly
Reports linking the 8 September 2026 UK air-traffic outage to anomalous data in a military aircraft flight plan have sharpened ...
Aircraft
Boeing And SPEEA Reach Tentative Deal With 10 Percent Raise For 17000 Engineers
Boeing and the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace reached a tentative four-year contract on 11–12 Septe...
Aircraft
GE Aerospace Redesigns GE9X Mid-Seal After Crack Found On Boeing 777X Test Engine
GE Aerospace is redesigning a mid-seal inside the GE9X — the exclusive engine on Boeing’s 777X — after a crack was found during...
Routes
Frontier Airlines Opens First South America Flights With Three Orlando–Colombia Routes
Frontier Airlines will open its first South America flying in December 2026 with three Orlando International nonstops into Colo...
Aircraft
FAA Proposes Airbus A220 Fuel Hose Checks On 13 US Jets Including Delta And Breeze
The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed a new airworthiness directive for certain Airbus A220-100 and A220-300 jets on...
Routes
Allegiant Air Adds 11 Fort Lauderdale Routes As Spirit Gaps Open Leisure Markets
Allegiant Air is stitching together eleven new Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood routes between February 2026 and February 2027, a leis...
Aircraft
Alaska Airlines Returns Palm Springs–Santa Rosa Embraer E175 Flights More Than Six Weeks Early
Alaska Airlines brought back seasonal nonstop flying between Palm Springs International Airport (PSP) and Charles M. Schulz–Son...
Aircraft
Flair Airlines Signs 15-Year Lufthansa Technik Deal For 18 Boeing 737 MAX 8 LEAP Engines
Flair Airlines has signed a 15-year exclusive agreement with Lufthansa Technik covering engine maintenance and digital technica...
Routes
Ryanair Adds Five Sweden Winter Routes And An Eighth Based Boeing 737 At Stockholm Arlanda
Ryanair on 10 September 2026 published a record Winter 2026 programme for Sweden, saying the schedule will carry 4.6 million pa...
Airlines
Algeria Bans UAE-Registered Aircraft Overflights, Hitting Emirates And Etihad Routings
Algeria is closing its airspace to aircraft registered in the United Arab Emirates, a step that reaches beyond the already-brok...
Aircraft
Air France Extends Paris–Punta Cana Boeing 777 Flights Through 1 May 2027
Air France is stretching its winter Paris Charles de Gaulle–Punta Cana season deeper into spring. Air Journal reported on 13 Se...
Safety
easyJet Airbus A320 Evacuated At Milan Malpensa After Cabin Smoke On Prague Taxi
An easyJet Airbus A320 bound for Prague was evacuated on the taxiway at Milan Malpensa after cabin smoke on 11 September 2026. ...
Aircraft
NTSB: Amazon Air Boeing 767 Pilot Warned Too Fast Before Miami Runway Overrun
Amazon Air’s Miami runway overrun investigation has a sharper cockpit timeline. On 9–10 September 2026 the U.S. National Transp...
Airlines
Air Transat Holds Winter Capacity Flat As Pratt & Whitney GTF Groundings Persist
Air Transat is tapping the brakes on winter growth. Parent Transat A.T. reported results for the quarter ended 31 July 2026 on ...
Airlines
Condor To Open Berlin–Abu Dhabi Flights Under Etihad Partnership In October
Condor is preparing to put Berlin on its Abu Dhabi map. Reporting from Munich on 11 September 2026, The National said direct Ab...
Routes
flydubai Launches Dedicated Freighter Ops With Three Boeing 737-800s From Dubai World Central
Dubai-based flydubai is stepping beyond belly cargo. On 11 September 2026 the carrier said it will launch dedicated freighter f...
Safety
Amerijet Boeing 767-300F N373CM Grounded In Guatemala After Hard Landing Damage
A Boeing 767-300F freighter operated by Miami-based Amerijet International remains grounded in Guatemala City after a hard land...
Airlines
Pegasus Airlines Wins Czech Approval To Buy Smartwings In €154 Million Deal
Czech competition authorities have cleared Pegasus Airlines’ purchase of Prague-based Smartwings, Air Journal reported on Septe...
Industry
Cape Air Orders Eight Cessna Grand Caravan EX Turboprops For Its Montana Network From 2027
Cape Air has ordered eight Cessna Grand Caravan EX single-engine turboprops for its Montana passenger network, with introductio...
Aircraft
Delta Air Lines Opens Monterey Flights To Los Angeles And Salt Lake City On Embraer E175
Delta Air Lines is adding Monterey Regional Airport to its network this winter, scheduling Embraer E175 flying to Los Angeles a...
Aircraft
Lufthansa Technik Moves AeroSHARK Film Toward EASA Approval On Airbus A330 With Discover Test Jet
Lufthansa Technik has entered the final certification phase for fitting AeroSHARK — its shark-skin-inspired riblet film — on Ai...
Industry
Iberia Wins Unrestricted AESA Approval For Full Heavy Maintenance On Its Airbus A350 Fleet
Iberia Mantenimiento has obtained unrestricted authorization from Spain’s Agencia Estatal de Seguridad Aérea (AESA) to perform ...
Industry
SWISS Takes Delivery Of Third Airbus A350-900 Named Zug For Zurich–Shanghai And Johannesburg
Swiss International Air Lines took delivery of its third Airbus A350-900 in Zurich, the airline said in a September 11, 2026 ne...
Aircraft
Alaska Airlines Bet On 105 Uncertified Boeing 737 MAX 10s After MAX 7 Cleared A Path
Alaska Airlines’ January 7, 2026 order for 105 Boeing 737 MAX 10s remains the largest aircraft purchase in the carrier’s 93-yea...
Aircraft
United Airlines Scraps Airbus A320 N470UA Damaged By Catering Truck At Reagan National
United Airlines is preparing to scrap an Airbus A320 that has sat at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport since May after ...
Airlines
Turkish Airlines Permanently Drops 11 Destinations Including Billund And Leipzig Into 2027
Turkish Airlines has converted a set of earlier 2026 suspensions into permanent network cuts. AeroRoutes reported on September ...
Airlines
Eurowings Adds Berlin–Bologna, Düsseldorf–Tallinn And Prague–Rovaniemi For Winter 2026/27
Eurowings used its September 11, 2026 Newscloud ticker to lock three winter 2026/27 route adds that thicken the Lufthansa Group...
Industry
TAROM Takes Delivery Of Its First Boeing 737-8 As Romania Inducts The MAX
Romania’s national carrier has crossed a fleet milestone that Boeing, TAROM and lessor CDB Aviation marked in Bucharest on Sept...
Aircraft
Air France Opens Pointe-à-Pitre–Panama City Flights On Airbus A320 And Puts A350 On Paris–Saint-Martin
Air France is using its September Caribbean winter briefing to add a Central American spoke and upgrade a long-haul island gate...
Aircraft
Emirates Delays Second Daily Dubai–Copenhagen Until March 2027 On Airbus A380
Emirates is stepping back from a second daily Dubai–Copenhagen bank this winter. AeroRoutes reported on September 11 that the p...
Aircraft
Air Canada Puts Airbus A321XLR On Montreal–Lyon For End Of Summer Season
Air Canada has put its Airbus A321XLR onto Montreal–Lyon for the end of the summer season. Air Journal reported on September 10...
Airlines
Discover Airlines Suspends Frankfurt–Philadelphia Flights From January To March 2027
Discover Airlines is carving a winter gap into its Frankfurt–Philadelphia schedule. AeroRoutes reported on September 11 that th...
Aircraft
Air France Increases Pointe-à-Pitre–Miami To Four Weekly Flights On Airbus A320
Air France is thickening its Caribbean–Florida bridge this winter. AeroRoutes reported on September 11 that the SkyTeam carrier...
Aircraft
Emirates Deploys Retrofitted Airbus A380 With Premium Economy On Dubai–Paris From October 25
Emirates will deploy a retrofitted Airbus A380 on daily Dubai–Paris Charles de Gaulle flights EK071 and EK072 from October 25, ...
Routes
American Airlines Schedules Eight 2027 Long-Haul Routes Including Philadelphia–Porto And Vienna On Airbus A321XLR
American Airlines is stacking eight long-haul launches and relaunches for 2027 across Charlotte, Chicago O’Hare, New York JFK a...
Aircraft
Israir Schedules Tel Aviv–New York JFK Airbus A330-200 Flights From September 16
Israir is preparing to enter the United States with widebody metal. AeroRoutes reported on September 11 that the Israeli carrie...
Routes
British Airways Posts Record Heathrow–US Capacity With 27 Routes And 4.4 Million Seats
British Airways is leaning harder into Heathrow–United States flying than at any point since before the pandemic. Simple Flying...
Aircraft
Volaris Opens Guadalajara–Raleigh Durham Flights On Airbus A321neo From October 16
Volaris is adding a new U.S. gateway in North Carolina. AirlineGeeks reported on September 11 that the Mexican ultra-low-cost c...
Airlines
Emirates Cleared For Daily Dubai–Berlin Flights After Germany Traffic Rights Deal
Emirates finally cleared the regulatory path for Berlin after more than two decades of lobbying. Simple Flying reported on Sept...
Routes
Air Canada Schedules Airbus A321XLR Flights On New Europe Routes From Montreal And Toronto
Air Canada is in the middle of a European expansion wave, with fourteen new transatlantic routes launching across 2026 and 2027...
Aircraft
Alaska Airlines Builds Seattle Intercontinental Network With Boeing 787-9 Against Delta
Alaska Airlines is building a long-haul network from Seattle with a widebody fleet that is still tiny by Big Three standards. A...
Industry
JetBlue Defers 44 Airbus A321neos Until 2030 As A220 Remains The Growth Fleet
JetBlue’s next wave of Airbus A321neos is not coming this decade’s second half. A September 11 Simple Flying analysis of the ca...
Aircraft
Qatar Airways Restores Daily Doha–Seychelles Flights On Boeing 777 From March 2027
Qatar Airways plans to restore daily service between Doha and Mahé in the Seychelles from March 1, 2027, according to an AeroRo...
Industry
ITA Airways Takes Delivery Of Second Star Alliance Airbus A321neo At Rome Fiumicino
ITA Airways took delivery of its second Star Alliance-liveried aircraft on September 10, when a newly built Airbus A321neo arri...
Airlines
Alaska Airlines Expands American Airlines Puerto Rico Codeshare On Miami And Philadelphia Flights
Alaska Airlines widened its codeshare with American Airlines on September 10, adding two Puerto Rico city pairs that American a...
Routes
Wizz Air Opens Turin Base With Rome Barcelona And Bilbao Routes From September 14
Wizz Air’s Turin base is days from opening, and the first wave of new routes is narrower than the seven-destination headline su...
Airlines
Virgin Atlantic Cuts 30 Seats On Incoming A330neos To Grow Upper Class To 48 Suites
Virgin Atlantic is deliberately flying fewer seats on its next Airbus A330-900neos so it can sell more of the cabin that actual...
Industry
KLM First Airbus A350 Completes Test Flights Ahead Of Delivery As The Night Watch
KLM’s first Airbus A350 has left the hangar phase and entered airborne testing. In an Amstelveen statement dated September 10, ...
Routes
Frontier Airlines Launches Boise–Las Vegas Flights Four Times Weekly
Frontier Airlines opened a new leisure corridor from Idaho on September 10, launching nonstop service between Boise Airport and...
Airlines
Qatar Airways Plans 170-Plus Winter Destinations And Resumes Four Saudi Cities
Qatar Airways will stretch its winter 2026–27 map past one hundred seventy destinations, pairing frequency builds on core long-...
Industry
Avianca Rolls Out Insignia Business Suites On Its Boeing 787 Fleet Starting In 2027
Avianca is refreshing the front cabin on its fifteen Boeing 787 Dreamliners with new Insignia business-class suites that add sl...
Aircraft
Lufthansa Restarts Frankfurt–Kuala Lumpur Boeing 787-9 Flights From October 25
Lufthansa will put Kuala Lumpur back on the Frankfurt winter map on October 25, ending a ten-year gap with five-weekly Boeing 7...
Routes
Transavia Adds Amsterdam Murcia And Pula Plus Brussels Heraklion Routes For Summer 2027
Transavia is filling more of its summer 2027 map from Amsterdam and Brussels, adding Spanish and Croatian leisure cities while ...
Routes
Allegiant Air Cuts 41 Florida Routes From Destin Fort Lauderdale And Orlando Sanford
Allegiant Air has stripped forty-one Florida routes out of its forward schedule, underscoring how quickly the ultra-low-cost ca...
Aircraft
Avianca Signs Sale-And-Leaseback For 12 Airbus A320neos With BOC Aviation
Avianca locked a sale-and-leaseback for twelve Airbus A320neos with Singapore-based lessor BOC Aviation on September 10, AeroTi...
Aircraft
Emirates Swaps Dubai–Amsterdam Airbus A380 For Boeing 777-300ER Through October
Emirates will suspend Airbus A380 service on Dubai–Amsterdam for the entire month of October 2026, Simple Flying reported on Se...
Aircraft
Aer Lingus Deploys Airbus A330-300 On Dublin–Brussels In Place Of Usual A320
Aer Lingus operated an Airbus A330-300 on the short Dublin–Brussels route on September 9, Aviation24 reported, substituting the...
Routes
Delta Air Lines Drops Eight Atlanta Routes Including St Vincent Fresno And Vancouver Metal
Delta Air Lines has removed eight Atlanta routes from its forward-looking schedule through summer 2027, according to a Cirium-b...
Airlines
Frontier Airlines Adds First South America Flights From Orlando To Three Colombian Cities
Frontier Airlines on September 10 announced its first-ever South America flying, putting three nonstop routes from Orlando Inte...
Aircraft
Norse Atlantic Cuts August Flights But Posts 98.5 Percent Load Factor On Boeing 787s
Norse Atlantic Airways cut scheduled capacity sharply in August yet filled nearly every seat on its Boeing 787 network, TravelM...
Routes
American Airlines Launches Chicago O’Hare–Marion Illinois Flights On SkyWest CRJ700s
American Airlines began service at Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois in Marion on September 9, local station WCIL reported,...
Aircraft
Delta And Saudi Air Connectivity Program Back Riyadh–Atlanta Airbus A350 Flights
Saudi Arabia’s Air Connectivity Program signed a cooperation agreement with Delta Air Lines on September 10 to support planned ...
Aircraft
World2Fly Schedules Amsterdam–Bonaire–Curaçao Airbus A350 Flights Through December
World2Fly has filed a limited fourth-quarter triangle linking Amsterdam with Bonaire and Curaçao on Airbus A350-900 aircraft, A...
Routes
Ryanair Adds Five Swedish Winter Routes And Extra Boeing 737 At Stockholm Arlanda
Ryanair on September 10 announced what it called a record Winter 2026 schedule for Sweden, putting 4.6 million passengers a yea...
Aircraft
SalamAir Schedules Muscat–Baghdad–Copenhagen Airbus A320neo Flights From November 14
Omani low-cost carrier SalamAir plans to launch twice-weekly Airbus A320neo flights on a Muscat–Baghdad–Copenhagen routing from...
Airlines
Delta Ends JFK–Milwaukee And Palm Springs Flights And Suspends Las Vegas Links To San Diego And Orange County
Delta Air Lines is cutting deeper into its New York and Las Vegas schedules this fall, ending New York JFK flights to Milwaukee...
Aircraft
Iberia Shifts Madrid–London Gatwick Winter Flights Onto Mainline Airbus A320 Aircraft
Iberia is moving its Madrid–London Gatwick winter operation onto mainline Airbus A320 aircraft from October 25, replacing Iberi...
Aircraft
La Compagnie Schedules All-Business Airbus A321LR Flights Between Düsseldorf And Newark From April 2027
French all-business airline La Compagnie is preparing to open a fourth Newark gateway, scheduling nonstop flights between Düsse...
Airlines
Emirates Delays Third Daily Dubai–Melbourne A380 Until At Least March 2027
Emirates has pushed its planned third daily Dubai–Melbourne Airbus A380 back to no earlier than March 28, 2027, according to No...
Routes
ITA Airways Keeps Airbus A330-200 On Rome–Boston, Houston And Other Long-Haul Routes This Winter
ITA Airways will keep the Airbus A330-200 in active long-haul service through Northern winter 2026/27, according to a network o...
Aircraft
Alaska Airlines Schedules One-Time Boeing 737 MAX 8 Flight To Utqiagvik On November 17
Alaska Airlines plans a one-day Boeing 737 MAX 8 appearance on Anchorage–Utqiagvik (Barrow) on November 17, 2026, according to ...
Aircraft
Delta Schedules Boeing 717 On Detroit–Toronto Flights For 2026-27 Holidays
Delta Air Lines will put a Boeing 717 on the Detroit–Toronto Pearson market for the peak 2026–27 holiday window, according to s...
Airlines
Iberia Opens 800-Square-Meter Emerald Lounge Sorolla At Madrid-Barajas Terminal 4
Iberia has opened Emerald Lounge Sorolla, a new 800-square-meter premium space in Madrid-Barajas Terminal 4 built exclusively f...
Airlines
easyJet Schedules Manchester–Southampton Flights Covering Just 149 Nautical Miles
easyJet is about to stitch Manchester and Southampton back together with one of the shortest mainland routes on its map. Simple...
Airlines
WestJet Cancels Planned Ottawa–Liberia Costa Rica Flights For Winter 2026/27
WestJet has cancelled its planned Ottawa–Liberia, Costa Rica, service for Northern winter 2026/27, removing a once-weekly Boein...
Airlines
Contour Airlines Adds Cape Girardeau–Orlando Sanford Seasonal Flights From December 16
Contour Airlines is adding a winter leisure bridge from Southeast Missouri to Central Florida, launching seasonal nonstops betw...
Airlines
Frontier Airlines Ends New York JFK Service On October 5 After Two-Year Run
Frontier Airlines will shut its New York John F. Kennedy International Airport station on October 5, 2026, ending a little more...
Aircraft
US Sanctions 27 Iranian Airlines After Boeing 777s Reach Mahan Air
The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned 36 aviation-linked targets on September 8, 2026, including 27 Ira...
Aircraft
Air Dolomiti Repaints First Ex-Austrian Embraer E195 In Lufthansa Blue
Air Dolomiti has rolled out a deeper Lufthansa blue on the first Embraer E195 transferred from Austrian Airlines, replacing the...
Airlines
Air Serbia Grows Belgrade–Prague To 11 Weekly ATR72 Flights This Winter
Air Serbia will thicken its Belgrade–Prague shuttle this winter, lifting the route from nine to eleven weekly flights from Octo...
Routes
Wizz Air Restores 12 Middle East Routes To Abu Dhabi Dubai Jeddah And Amman
Wizz Air is putting Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Jeddah and Amman back on sale for winter 2026/27, restoring 12 Europe–Middle East routes ...
Airlines
Lufthansa Technik Moves AeroSHARK Shark-Skin Film Into Final A330 Certification
Lufthansa Technik has pushed its AeroSHARK “shark skin” surface film into the final Supplemental Type Certificate campaign for ...
Airlines
TSA Gateside Lets PreCheck Members Pass Airport Security Without A Ticket
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has opened Gateside by TSA PreCheck, a free program that lets eligible trusted ...
Airlines
Alaska Airlines Sued For $522,000 Over Japanese Paintings Ruined In Honolulu Rain
Alaska Airlines is facing a New York lawsuit seeking more than $522,000 after an insurer alleged that 11 original Japanese pain...
Airlines
Iberia Air Nostrum Resumes Barcelona–Pamplona CRJ1000 Flights From October 25
Iberia’s regional franchisee Air Nostrum will put Barcelona El Prat–Pamplona Noáin back on the winter timetable from October 25...
Aircraft
Animawings Schedules Bucharest–Strasbourg Airbus A220 Flights For March 2027
Romanian carrier Animawings has filed a short March 2027 season between Bucharest Henri Coandă and Strasbourg Entzheim, putting...
Airlines
Lufthansa Eyes More Allegris Premium Seats As First A350-1000 Nears Munich
Lufthansa is weighing denser Allegris premium cabins on new long-haul jets as its first Airbus A350-1000 approaches Munich deli...
Aircraft
Aeromexico Adds Guadalajara–Paris And Mexico City–Milan Boeing 787 Flights For 2027
Aeromexico is expanding its European map for northern summer 2027 with two new Boeing 787 nonstops: Guadalajara–Paris Charles d...
Airlines
Delta Ends LaGuardia–Tulsa Flights In November After Load Factors Plunge
Delta Air Lines will end nonstop flights between New York LaGuardia and Tulsa on November 6, 2026, closing a short-lived Connec...
Aircraft
Sky Express Schedules Irakleion–Amsterdam Airbus A320neo Flights For Summer 2027
Greek carrier Sky Express has filed a new northern summer 2027 link from Crete to the Netherlands, scheduling Irakleion–Amsterd...
Aircraft
easyJet Faces $72 Million Lawsuit Over Six Abandoned Airbus Jets After Sanctions
British low-cost carrier easyJet is facing a High Court claim in London seeking at least $72 million over six Airbus jets it st...
Aircraft
Air Cairo Schedules Cairo–Brussels Airbus A320 Flights From Mid-December 2026
Air Cairo is adding Belgium to its European map. Schedules filed for Northern Winter 2026 show the Egyptian carrier launching C...
Airlines
Lufthansa Cargo Buys Frankfurt Handler LUG To Expand Home-Hub Capacity
Lufthansa Cargo is buying capacity on the ground as well as in the sky. The carrier has agreed to acquire Frankfurt freighter h...
Airlines
Brussels Airlines And Deutsche Bahn Offer Combined Tickets As ICE Returns To Brussels Airport
High-speed rail is back under Brussels Airport, and Brussels Airlines is turning that stop into a bookable airline product. On ...
Airlines
UK Air Traffic Glitch Disrupts Heathrow And Gatwick As NATS Flight Processing Fails
A technical failure inside the system that processes flights through UK airspace disrupted departures across Britain on Tuesday...
Routes
FedEx Express Puts Retro Boeing 777-200F Rosie Back On Global Cargo Routes
FedEx Express has put one of its most photogenic freighters back to work. Boeing 777-200F N884FD, nicknamed Rosie, returned to ...
Aircraft
SWISS Plans To Donate Last Airbus A340-300 To Lucerne Transport Museum By 2028
SWISS is working with the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne to preserve one of its last Airbus A340-300s as a permanent outd...
Airlines
Aeroitalia Begins Tripoli Mitiga Flights From Milan Bergamo And Rome Fiumicino
Aeroitalia has opened scheduled service to Libya with weekly Boeing 737-400 flights from Milan Bergamo and Rome Fiumicino to Tr...
Airlines
British Airways Adds Gatwick Flights To Colombo Barbados And Rovaniemi This Winter
British Airways is restoring two long-haul markets from London Gatwick this winter and adding a seasonal Lapland leisure route ...
Industry
Breeze Airways Retires Last Embraer E190 And Moves To All Airbus A220 Fleet
Breeze Airways has operated its last scheduled Embraer E190 passenger flights and now flies an all-Airbus A220-300 fleet, accor...
Routes
Southwest Adds Ten New Las Vegas Nonstops Including Boston Miami And Hilo
Southwest Airlines is stacking ten new nonstops from Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport between spring 2026 and March 2...
Aircraft
QantasLink Network Aviation Inducts First Embraer E190 In Perth For F100 Replacement
QantasLink's Network Aviation unit has inducted its first Embraer E190 in Perth, registering VH-E9A after a multi-stop ferry fr...
Airlines
Etihad Moves Abu Dhabi–Palma A321LR Season Forward To May 2027
Etihad Airways has brought forward its seasonal Abu Dhabi–Palma de Mallorca service for summer 2027, with the Airbus A321LR now...
Industry
Airbus Delivers 57 Aircraft In August And Books 67 Orders Toward 870 Target
Airbus delivered 57 aircraft in August 2026 and booked 67 gross orders, lifting year-to-date deliveries to 475 airframes as the...
Safety
United Keeps Newark–Dubai Flights Grounded Until March 2027 On Boeing 787
United Airlines is keeping its daily Newark–Dubai nonstop grounded until at least March 27, 2027, even as the carrier restores ...
Aircraft
Delta Resumes Daily New York JFK–Tel Aviv Flights On Airbus A330-900neo
Delta Air Lines has restarted daily nonstop flights between New York John F. Kennedy International Airport and Tel Aviv Ben Gur...
Routes
Ryanair Extends Kosice Malaga Into Winter With Record Five Route Schedule
Ryanair will operate its largest-ever Winter 2026 schedule from Košice, Slovakia, with five routes and 13% more weekly flights ...
Industry
QantasLink Network Aviation Inducts First Embraer E190 In Perth Fleet Renewal
Qantas-owned Network Aviation has taken delivery of its first Embraer E190 for Western Australia resource flying, FlightGlobal ...
Airlines
Etihad Moves Abu Dhabi Palma Flights Forward To May 16 For Summer 2027
Etihad Airways will open its summer 2027 Abu Dhabi–Palma de Mallorca seasonal service on May 16 instead of June 15, according t...
Airlines
American Airlines Charlotte Hub To Gain Up To 16 Gates In Billion Dollar Concourse C Build
Charlotte Douglas International Airport is advancing more than $1 billion of ramp and concourse work that would give American A...
Aircraft
United Flies Newark Madeira Three Times Weekly On Boeing 737 MAX 8 Through September 22
United Airlines is flying a 166-seat Boeing 737 MAX 8 between Newark Liberty International Airport and Madeira Airport three ti...
Routes
Etihad Moves 194-Seat Airbus A321LR Debut To January 2027 On India Routes
Etihad Airways has brought forward the service entry of its three-class 194-seat Airbus A321LR to January 1, 2027 from the prev...
Routes
Wizz Air Adds 46 Weekly Tel Aviv Flights And Restores Five European Routes
Wizz Air announced on September 7, 2026 that it is adding roughly 46 weekly flights from Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport by restori...
Aircraft
Lufthansa Cuts Frankfurt–New York JFK To One Daily Airbus A350 This Winter
Lufthansa will limit Frankfurt–New York JFK to a single daily Airbus A350-900 rotation in winter 2026/27 and will not operate a...
Industry
Lufthansa Keeps Munich–Belgrade On Mainline Fleet With 13 Weekly Winter Flights
Lufthansa has reversed a late-summer plan to put leisure subsidiary Discover Airlines on Munich–Belgrade this winter and will i...
Routes
Frontier Airlines Cuts Ten Phoenix Routes And Trims Sky Harbor Flying 11 Percent
Frontier Airlines has eliminated ten Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport routes when the September–December 2025 schedule ...
Routes
Frontier Airlines Cuts Ten Phoenix Routes Including Seattle And Cincinnati
Frontier Airlines will operate ten fewer Phoenix Sky Harbor routes in the September–December 2026 window than it did in the sam...
Airlines
Lufthansa Keeps Munich Belgrade On Mainline After Reversing Discover Plan
Lufthansa has reversed a plan to hand Munich–Belgrade to leisure subsidiary Discover Airlines this winter and will instead keep...
Airlines
Discover Airlines Adds Frankfurt Genoa And Munich Alghero Flights For Summer 2027
Discover Airlines will expand its Italian leisure network in summer 2027 with two new city pairs: Frankfurt–Genoa from March 28...
Airlines
Wizz Air Adds 46 Weekly Tel Aviv Flights Including London Gatwick And Catania
Wizz Air said on September 7, 2026 that it is adding 46 weekly flights at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport, restoring five European ...
Airlines
American Airlines Narrowbody Premium Seats Set To Jump From 25% To 40%
American Airlines plans to lift the share of premium seats on narrowbody departures from roughly 25% today to about 40% in the ...
Routes
Etihad To Launch Abu Dhabi Red Sea Flights On Airbus A320 From October 4
Etihad Airways will launch year-round flights from Abu Dhabi to Saudi Arabia's Red Sea International Airport on October 4, 2026...
Aircraft
Air France Brings Back Seasonal Cape Town Paris Flights On Airbus A350-900
Air France will restart seasonal Cape Town–Paris Charles de Gaulle service on September 22, 2026, flying the route through Marc...
Routes
La Compagnie To Launch All-Business Newark Dusseldorf Flights On Airbus A321neo LR
La Compagnie announced on September 7, 2026 that it will launch nonstop all-business-class service between New York's Newark Li...
Airlines
Alaska Airlines Returns To Long Beach With Twice-Daily Seattle Flights On September 8
Alaska Airlines will restart Seattle–Long Beach service on September 8, 2026, with two daily year-round flights on Boeing 737 m...
Routes
JetBlue Adds Eight New Fort Lauderdale Nonstops Including Chicago And Ponce
JetBlue listed eight new nonstop routes from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on September 7, 2026, naming Balti...
Aircraft
Air Canada Adds Fifth Daily Toronto Heathrow Flight With Airbus A321XLR Daytripper
Air Canada will restore a daytime Toronto–London Heathrow Daytripper from May 1, 2027, lifting the city pair to five daily flig...
Routes
British Airways Adds Five Heathrow Routes Including San Jose Costa Rica And Tampa
British Airways will reshape its London Heathrow network between October and December 2026 with five route additions and restor...
Routes
Delta To Launch Austin Paris Nonstops On Airbus A330-900neo In March 2027
Delta Air Lines will give Austin-Bergstrom International Airport its first long-haul nonstop on March 27, 2027, launching daily...
Routes
Frontier Airlines Launches Nine New Nonstop Routes Starting With Las Vegas To Boise
Frontier Airlines will launch nine new nonstop routes between September and December 2026, starting with four-weekly Las Vegas–...
Industry
American Airlines Nears 65 Widebody Order That Could End Its All-Boeing Long-Haul Fleet
American Airlines is closing in on a widebody order that could reach as many as 65 aircraft, a decision that would reshape its ...
Aircraft
Airlines Are Not Really Paying 30 Percent More For The Airbus A220 Than The Embraer E195-E2
Airline forums still repeat that an Airbus A220-300 costs about 30% more than an Embraer E195-E2. Simple Flying’s 7 September 2...
Industry
EASA And FAA Order Trent 700 And 800 Oil Pump De-Pairing On A330 And 777 Classic Fleets
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency issued emergency airworthiness directives 2026-0172-E and 2026-0173-E on 4 September ...
Aircraft
Airbus A350 Ramp To 12 A Month By 2028 Faces Kinston North Carolina Supply Bottleneck
Airbus is still targeting 12 Airbus A350 deliveries a month by 2028, but a fresh round of customer delay warnings has put the r...
Airlines
Ryanair Cuts Winter Flying And Lowers FY2027 Target To 214 Million As Jet Fuel Nears 140 Dollars
Ryanair is cutting winter flying and trimming its fiscal 2027 passenger target from 216 million to 214 million as jet fuel trad...
Aircraft
flydubai Shifts Daily Dubai Naples Flights To Salerno On Boeing 737 MAX 8 In November
flydubai plans to shift its daily Dubai to Naples service to Salerno Costa d'Amalfi and Cilento Airport for the whole of Novemb...
Safety
British Airways Boeing 787-10 Delayed In Montreal After Accidental Emergency Slide Deployment
British Airways flight BA94 from Montreal to London Heathrow was delayed on 5 September 2026 after an emergency evacuation slid...
Aircraft
KLM First Airbus A350-900 Completes Maiden Flight Ahead Of Toronto Debut
KLM's first Airbus A350-900 completed its maiden production test flight from Toulouse-Blagnac on 4 September 2026, flying about...
Routes
Air Canada Adds Montreal Dubrovnik Seasonal Nonstops On Boeing 787 For Summer 2027
Air Canada will launch seasonal nonstop flights between Montreal and Dubrovnik three times weekly from 11 May 2027, putting a B...
Aircraft
United Resumes Newark Tel Aviv Flights Twice Daily On Boeing 787 From September 8
United Airlines plans to resume twice-daily nonstop flights between Newark Liberty International Airport and Tel Aviv’s Ben Gur...
Aircraft
Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767 Reportedly Overruns Runway at Miami International Airport
Social video circulating Sunday evening appears to show an Amazon Prime Air–branded Boeing 767 freighter off the paved surface ...
Aircraft
United Unveils Mountain Ascent Special Livery On Embraer E175 For Ski Season
United Airlines has rolled out a new special livery on an Embraer E175 celebrating the carrier’s mountain destinations for the ...
Aircraft
Air Canada Adds Toronto–Oslo And Toronto–Shannon On Airbus A321XLR For Summer 2027
Air Canada will open two new Toronto–Europe thin long-haul markets on the Airbus A321XLR in summer 2027, adding Oslo and Shanno...
Airlines
United Airlines Puts A321XLR On Dulles–San Diego From September 9 And Los Angeles From October 1
United Airlines will put its new Airbus A321XLR into passenger service on domestic California routes from Washington Dulles bef...
Airlines
American Airlines Adds JFK–Amsterdam And Nice On A321XLR Plus Fourth Heathrow 787-9 For 2027
American Airlines is lining up its largest John F. Kennedy–Europe schedule in years for summer 2027, adding two new destination...
Airlines
United Newark Ljubljana Plan Lifts Ambitions As Airport Posts Record August Traffic
Ljubljana Airport handled 222,958 passengers in August 2026, its busiest month on record, a 19.7% jump on August 2025 and 5.3% ...
Aircraft
Qantas Adds Second Weekly Brisbane Palau Flight On Boeing 737-800 From December
Qantas will add a second weekly Brisbane–Koror flight from 2 December 2026, lifting Palau service on the Boeing 737-800 accordi...
Aircraft
Emirates Unveils Electric Privacy Screens On New Airbus A350 Premium Economy Seats
Emirates will put electrically powered Premium Economy seats with full-height privacy screens on newly delivered Airbus A350 ai...
Airlines
Air Canada Adds Toronto Nice On A330-300 And Montreal Basel On A321XLR For Summer 2027
Air Canada will open Toronto–Nice on the Airbus A330-300 and Montreal–Basel on the Airbus A321XLR in summer 2027, two of the he...
Routes
Delta Ends Four Domestic Routes From New York And Las Vegas This Winter On CRJ900 And E175
Delta Air Lines will end four domestic routes from New York and Las Vegas before the end of 2026, trimming short-haul Delta Con...
Airlines
Lufthansa Shifts Winter Europe Flying To Discover City Airlines And Suspends Naples In November
Lufthansa is handing more winter 2026/27 Europe flying to group airlines Discover Airlines, Lufthansa City Airlines and Air Dol...
Routes
Luxair Postpones Dubai Resume To February 2027 And Abu Dhabi Launch To Late 2027
Luxair has postponed its return to Dubai until 6 February 2027 and pushed the launch of Luxembourg-Abu Dhabi from October 2026 ...
Aircraft
Lufthansa Makes Munich Singapore Daily On Airbus A350-900 For January February 2027
Lufthansa will lift Munich-Singapore from five weekly flights to daily service for a limited window in early 2027, according to...
Aircraft
Delta Shortens Boston Honolulu Flights To Two Holiday Weeks On Airbus A330-300
Delta Air Lines has shortened planned Boston-Honolulu service for Northern winter 2026/27 to a two-week holiday window after a ...
Aircraft
United Says Airbus A321XLR Cannot Fly Newark To Italy Under Its Range Rules
United Airlines says its new Airbus A321XLR cannot cover Newark-Italy missions under the carrier's own range rules, even though...
Industry
DHL Takes First Mammoth-Converted Boeing 777 Freighter Into Its UK Long-Haul Cargo Fleet
Mammoth Freighters has delivered its first converted Boeing 777-200LRMF freighter to Texas lessor Jetran for operations with DH...
Aircraft
JSX Starts Scottsdale Cabo San Lucas Flights On Embraer Jets From October 8
JSX will open nonstop public-charter flights between Scottsdale Airport and Cabo San Lucas Airport on October 8, 2026, giving A...
Routes
United Restores Houston Chiapas Nonstops On Embraer E175 From October 28
United Airlines will restore nonstop service between Houston Intercontinental and Tuxtla Gutierrez on October 28, 2026, putting...
Routes
Delta Adds Five Long-Haul Routes Including Austin Paris And Atlanta Riyadh On Airbus Widebodies
Delta Air Lines is lining up five new or restored long-haul city pairs that stretch from Saudi Arabia to the Pacific. Simple Fl...
Industry
American Airlines Nears Order For Up To 65 Widebody Jets To Replace Boeing 777-200ERs
American Airlines is in the final stages of a widebody campaign that could reshape its long-haul fleet for the 2030s. Chief com...
Airlines
easyJet Carries More Than 343000 Passengers On Busiest Day In Its History
easyJet carried more than 343,000 passengers on over 2,000 flights on September 1, 2026, recording the busiest single day in th...
Airlines
Lufthansa Resumes Frankfurt Riyadh Flights Three Weekly From September 10
Lufthansa will resume flights between Frankfurt and Riyadh on September 10, 2026, three times a week, according to a Lufthansa ...
Routes
Southwest Airlines Starts Austin Knoxville Nonstops On September 24
Southwest Airlines will open nonstop flights between Austin Bergstrom International Airport and Knoxville’s McGhee Tyson Airpor...
Aircraft
Allegiant Adds Year-Round Flint Flights To Orlando And Fort Myers On Airbus A320 From February 2027
Allegiant Air will add year-round nonstop flights from Flint Bishop International Airport to Orlando International Airport and ...
Industry
Austrian Airlines Sets Final Boeing 767 Line Flight For Early December As 787 Fleet Grows
Austrian Airlines is counting down to the end of its Boeing 767-300ER era, with spokesperson confirmation that OE-LAZ will leav...
Airlines
Portugal Opens Final TAP Sale Talks With Lufthansa And Air France-KLM
Portugal's government will open a final, weeks-long negotiation round with Deutsche Lufthansa and Air France-KLM over a minorit...
Industry
Breeze Airways Takes Delivery Of Airbus A220-300 From Jackson Square Aviation
Breeze Airways has taken delivery of an Airbus A220-300 from lessor Jackson Square Aviation, the first of two jets under a mult...
Aircraft
Delta Air Lines Flies Accidental 44-Seat First Class Cabin On Airbus A321neo At 80 Percent Full
Delta Air Lines is flying seven Airbus A321neos in a temporary layout with 44 Delta First seats after certification trouble sta...
Airlines
Frontier Airlines Ends All New York JFK Flights On October 5 After Two Years
Frontier Airlines will end all flights at New York John F. Kennedy International Airport on October 5, 2026, closing a station ...
Airlines
airBaltic Secures Up To 257 Million Euros In Interim Bond Financing
airBaltic said on 3 September 2026 that it had reached agreement with some current bondholders and external finance providers f...
Aircraft
Vueling Postpones Boeing 737 MAX Entry To 2027 Over RECARO Seat Certification
Vueling has postponed the commercial entry of its first Boeing 737 MAX aircraft into the first half of 2027 after protracted ce...
Aircraft
American Airlines Unveils First Boeing 777-300ER With 70 Flagship Suites
American Airlines unveiled its first Boeing 777-300ER retrofitted with Flagship Suites, AeroTime reported on 3 September 2026, ...
Aircraft
Delta Restarts Daily New York JFK To Tel Aviv Flights On Airbus A330-900
Delta Air Lines will resume daily nonstop flights between New York John F. Kennedy International Airport and Tel Aviv Ben Gurio...
Airlines
FAA Tentatively Clears JetBlue To Buy 22 Spirit LaGuardia Slots
The Federal Aviation Administration said on 31 August 2026 that it tentatively intends to let JetBlue Airways buy 22 takeoff an...
Aircraft
Delta Air Lines Plans More Premium Select And Comfort+ On Boeing 767-400ERs
Delta Air Lines is preparing to put more Premium Select and Comfort+ seats on its Boeing 767-400ER fleet, according to trade re...
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