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Air France Opens New Lounge At Frankfurt Airport Terminal 3
Air France has opened its new lounge in Frankfurt Airport’s Terminal 3, several months after the airline moved operations into ...
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Lufthansa Technik Philippines Extends Emirates A380 Heavy Checks Through 2030
Lufthansa Technik and Emirates said on 2 September 2026 that they have extended base maintenance covering Emirates’ Airbus A380 fleet in Asia. Lufthansa Technik Philippines will keep performing heavy checks on the dou...
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Southwest Airlines Adds Fort Lauderdale Kona And Lihue From San Diego
Southwest Airlines is pushing San Diego International toward 49 destinations by March 2027 with three more long nonstops: Fort ...
Routes
Frontier Airlines Launches Nine New Nonstop Routes Including Las Vegas To Boise
Frontier Airlines will open nine new nonstop markets between 10 September 2026 and early January 2027, starting with four-weekl...
Aircraft
Emirates Puts Airbus A380 Back On Dubai-Beijing For October
Emirates will put the Airbus A380 back on Dubai International-Beijing Capital for the month of October 2026. AeroRoutes, publis...
Routes
Southwest And LOT Launch Interline Via Los Angeles Miami And San Francisco
Southwest Airlines and LOT Polish Airlines opened an interline partnership on 1 September 2026 that lets travelers buy one tick...
Aircraft
American Airlines Eyes Up To 65 Widebody Jets To Replace Boeing 777-200ERs
American Airlines is in the "seventh or eighth inning" of a widebody campaign sized at up to 65 aircraft for 2030s delivery, Vi...
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British Airways Adds Five Heathrow Routes Including Tampa 787-10 And Tel Aviv A321neo
British Airways will introduce or resume five nonstop routes from London Heathrow between October and December 2026, according to Simple Flying's 4 September reading of OAG schedules. The package m...
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Aircraft
KLM First Airbus A350-900 Completes 90-Minute Test Flight At Toulouse
KLM's first Airbus A350-900 took off from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport shortly after 12:30 local time on 4 September 2026 and flew ...
Routes
Virgin Atlantic Starts Heathrow-Phuket Nonstops On Boeing 787-9 From October 18
Virgin Atlantic begins seasonal nonstop flights from London Heathrow to Phuket International Airport on 18 October 2026, operat...
Aircraft
Riyadh Air Shows First Airbus A321neo In Final Assembly At Hamburg
Riyadh Air posted photos of its first Airbus A321neo in final assembly at Airbus’s Hamburg plant on 2 September 2026, shifting ...
Airlines
United Starts Newark Flights To Charlottesville Knoxville Omaha And Northwest Arkansas On September 24
United Express begins daily nonstop flights between Newark Liberty International Airport and Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport ...
Aircraft
Wizz Air Restarts Rome-Alexandria On Airbus A321neo From September 7
Wizz Air Malta restarts three-weekly flights between Rome Fiumicino and Alexandria’s Borg El Arab Airport on 7 September 2026, ...
Routes
Air Canada Starts Shannon-Toronto Nonstops On Airbus A321XLR From June 10 2027
Air Canada will open a seasonal nonstop between Shannon Airport and Toronto Pearson International Airport on 10 June 2027, flyi...
Aircraft
Emirates Adds World-First Electrically Powered Premium Economy Seat On New Airbus A350s
Emirates on 3 September 2026 unveiled what it calls the world’s first electrically powered Premium Economy seat with a full-hei...
Routes
Qatar Airways Resumes Four Saudi Arabia Routes On Airbus A320 This Winter
Qatar Airways plans to resume four Saudi Arabia routes in the Northern winter 2026/27 season on Airbus A320 aircraft, according...
Airlines
Southwest Unveils First Airport Lounges In Austin Baltimore Honolulu And Nashville For Late 2027
Southwest Airlines on 2 September 2026 unveiled plans for its first-ever airport lounge network, with construction already unde...
Airlines
Ryanair Cuts Winter Flights In Greece And Belgium As Jet Fuel Costs Climb
Ryanair is cutting roughly two million seats from its winter schedule and has lowered its passenger target for the year to 31 M...
Aircraft
United Starts Daily Newark-Seoul Flights On Boeing 787-9 From September 4
United Airlines begins daily nonstop flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Seoul Incheon International Airport o...
Aircraft
Airbus Resumes A330neo Deliveries After Three-Month Horizontal Tail Plane Halt
Airbus has resumed A330neo deliveries after a roughly three-month disruption tied to a horizontal tail plane quality issue that...
Aircraft
KLM Moves Amsterdam-Toronto Airbus A350-900 Entry To October 23
KLM has pushed back the first Airbus A350-900 flights on Amsterdam–Toronto Pearson yet again. AeroRoutes reported on 3 Septembe...
Aircraft
Emirates Adds Second Daily Dubai-Singapore Airbus A380 From October 1 To 24
Emirates will temporarily put a second daily Airbus A380 on Dubai–Singapore from 1 October through 24 October 2026 by replacing...
Routes
United Adds First Boston-Jackson Hole Nonstop On Boeing 737-700 Plus Mountain Ascent Embraer E175 Livery
United Airlines will open its first-ever nonstop from Boston Logan to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, operating seasonally from 13 Febru...
Aircraft
JetBlue Unveils BlueFirst Domestic First Class On Airbus A220 A320 And A321
JetBlue on 1 September 2026 unveiled BlueFirst, the domestic first-class cabin it has been promising for nearly two years, usin...
Aircraft
TAP Air Portugal Starts Lisbon-Orlando Three Weekly On Airbus A330 From October 29
TAP Air Portugal’s first nonstop to Central Florida is close enough that Simple Flying this week walked through the live bookin...
Aircraft
Aeromexico Resumes Guadalajara-New York JFK Holiday Flights On Boeing 737 MAX 8 From December 17
Aeromexico is putting Guadalajara back on New York JFK for the holidays. AeroRoutes on 3 September 2026 shows daily AM296/297 f...
Aircraft
LOT Polish Airlines Starts Saturday Warsaw-Turin Ski Flights On Boeing 737 MAX 8 In January 2027
LOT Polish Airlines opened Saturday Warsaw–Turin flights for the 2027 ski season. A 3 September 2026 LOT statement distributed ...
Routes
Air Canada Adds Oslo Shannon And Basel A321XLR Routes Plus Dubrovnik 787 For Summer 2027
Air Canada on 3 September 2026 called Summer 2027 its largest intercontinental expansion, adding five new destinations and seve...
Routes
Alaska Airlines Adds San Diego-Loreto As 50th Nonstop From December 19 On Embraer E175
Alaska Airlines is marking 40 years in San Diego by adding a 50th nonstop from Lindbergh Field. The carrier’s 3 September 2026 ...
Aircraft
LOT Polish Airlines To Acquire Two Boeing 787-9s From Virgin Atlantic In 2027
LOT Polish Airlines is adding two more Dreamliners the used way. Simple Flying and aero.uk report Virgin Atlantic will transfer...
Aircraft
Vueling Postpones Boeing 737 MAX Entry Into Service To 2027 Over Seat Certification Delays
Vueling is slipping its Boeing 737 MAX debut again. AeroTime reports the Barcelona-based IAG low-cost carrier is pushing entry ...
Airlines
American Airlines Starts Marion-Chicago O'Hare Essential Air Service From September 9
American Airlines is taking over Essential Air Service at Marion, Illinois. Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois says American...
Aircraft
Alaska Airlines Resumes Palm Springs-Sonoma Seasonal Flights On Embraer E175 From September 10
Alaska Airlines is bringing Palm Springs–Sonoma County back early. Palm Springs International Airport says the seasonal nonstop...
Aircraft
United Schedules Airbus A321XLR On Dulles-San Diego And Los Angeles Through November
United Airlines is putting its new Airbus A321XLR onto domestic California flying before Europe. AeroRoutes shows reservations ...
Aircraft
Azul Resumes Porto Alegre-Montevideo Twice Weekly On Embraer E195-E2 From December
Azul is putting Porto Alegre–Montevideo back on the map. AeroRoutes says the Brazilian carrier plans to resume the route from 1...
Aircraft
Embraer Delivers 2000th E-Jet As Azul Takes E195-E2 Milestone Airframe
Embraer has crossed 2,000 E-Jet deliveries. Air Data News and Aviation24.be report the milestone airframe, an Embraer E195-E2, ...
Airlines
TAROM Ends Bucharest-Belgrade After Sixteen Years On ATR 72-600 From Late October
Romania’s flag carrier TAROM is leaving the Bucharest–Belgrade market. EX-YU Aviation News reports the airline will discontinue...
Aircraft
Contour Restores Williamsport-Charlotte Daily On Embraer ERJ-135 From October 19
Contour Airlines is putting Williamsport Regional Airport back on the scheduled map. In a 2 September 2026 PR Newswire release,...
Aircraft
United Ends Newark-Lima On Boeing 757-200 From March 2027 As Houston Doubles
United Airlines is cutting its long-running Newark–Lima nonstop. AeroRoutes shows the carrier filed South America changes that ...
Aircraft
United Adds Houston-Durango Winter Flights On Embraer E175
United Airlines is extending Houston–Durango into the winter for the first time. AirlineGeeks reports twice-weekly Embraer E175...
Airlines
American Puts Flagship Suites 777-300ER On JFK-Buenos Aires As First Class Ends
American Airlines has put its first retrofitted Boeing 777-300ER into commercial service with a denser Flagship Suite cabin and...
Airlines
Delta Shortens Boston-Honolulu To Holiday Window On A330-300
Delta Air Lines has shortened its planned Boston–Honolulu winter return to a holiday-only window. AeroRoutes’ 2 September 2026 ...
Airlines
Alaska Resumes Los Angeles-San Jose Four Daily On 737-900ER From November
Alaska Airlines plans to put Los Angeles–San Jose back on the map for Northern winter 2026/27. AeroRoutes’ 2 September 2026 sch...
Airlines
Smartwings Files Akureyri And Egilsstadir Europe Charters On 737s
Smartwings has filed charter links from northern Iceland into continental Europe for late 2026 and spring 2027. AeroRoutes’ 2 S...
Airlines
Royal Jordanian Adds Aqaba-Moscow Domodedovo On A320neo This Winter
Royal Jordanian intends to open Aqaba–Moscow Domodedovo for Northern winter 2026/27. AeroRoutes’ 2 September 2026 schedule note...
Routes
SkyUp Plans 12 Chisinau Routes For Summer 2027 On Boeing 737s
SkyUp Airlines is scaling its Moldova plan for Northern summer 2027. AeroRoutes’ 2 September 2026 note says the carrier now lis...
Routes
American Adds Charlotte-Barcelona 777 And More Europe A321XLR Routes For Summer 2027
American Airlines used its 29 August 2026 schedule update to lock a broader Northern summer 2027 Europe plan. AeroRoutes’ 31 Au...
Airlines
Delta Adds Austin-Paris A330neo And Los Angeles-Manila A350 For Summer 2027
Delta Air Lines is putting two brand-new long-haul city pairs on the Northern summer 2027 map. AeroRoutes’ 31 August 2026 note ...
Airlines
Pegasus Adds Daily Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen-Tripoli Mitiga On 737-800
Pegasus Airlines plans to open Libya with a daily Boeing 737-800 link from Istanbul. AeroRoutes published the Northern Winter f...
Airlines
Etihad Makes Gothenburg-Abu Dhabi Year-Round On A321LR
Etihad Airways is converting its new Gothenburg service to year-round flying after bookings beat the seasonal plan. Aviation24 ...
Routes
airBaltic Removes 18 Summer 2027 Routes From Riga Tallinn And Vilnius
airBaltic filed a sharp Northern Summer 2027 cleanup this week. AeroRoutes’ 2 September 2026 note, comparing schedule snapshots...
Routes
Lufthansa Hands Europe Routes To Discover Airlines And Lufthansa City This Winter
Lufthansa filed another round of Northern Winter 2026/27 Europe changes in late August, and AeroRoutes published the comparison...
Airlines
Discover Airlines Adds UK A320 Flights To Bristol Glasgow And Inverness
Discover Airlines is putting Great Britain on its short-haul map for the first time. In a 27 August 2026 newsroom release, the ...
Airlines
Qantas Puts A380 On 13 Weekly Singapore-Sydney Flights
Qantas plans to concentrate Airbus A380 flying on Singapore–Sydney from 7 December 2026. Simple Flying’s 1 September 2026 repor...
Airlines
Emirates Puts A350 On Dubai-Kuala Lumpur From September 1
Emirates has put its Airbus A350 on the Dubai–Kuala Lumpur route from 1 September 2026. Deep Arrival’s same-day summary of the ...
Industry
Luxair Takes Delivery Of First Owned Boeing 737 MAX 8s
Luxair has taken delivery of its first two Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft owned outright, marking a new phase of the Luxembourg carr...
Routes
Allegiant Adds Flint Nonstops To Orlando And Fort Myers
Allegiant Travel Company on 1 September 2026 announced two new year-round nonstops from Flint Bishop International Airport to F...
Routes
United Delays 10 New Chicago O'Hare Midwest Routes Into 2027
United Airlines is delaying ten planned new routes from Chicago O'Hare into fall 2027 after the Federal Aviation Administration...
Routes
American Files Summer 2027 A321XLR Routes From JFK And Philadelphia
American Airlines used the weekend of 29 August 2026’s schedule update to file a fresh Northern summer 2027 intercontinental pa...
Airlines
Frontier Returns 13 A320neos Early And Leases 10 A321neos From AerCap
Frontier Airlines is swapping some smaller Airbus A320neos for larger A321neos while trying to hold capacity roughly flat. Flig...
Routes
United Adds 14 Newark Routes Including Seoul And Europe A321XLR Markets
United Airlines is lining up 14 new or returning nonstop markets from Newark Liberty between September 2026 and July 2027, acco...
Airlines
United Puts A321XLR On Dulles-San Diego And Los Angeles Ahead Of Europe
United Airlines is putting its new Airbus A321XLR into domestic revenue service before the jet starts flying to Europe. AeroRou...
Airlines
Austrian Cuts Vienna-Ohrid Season Short This Year
Austrian Airlines will end its seasonal Vienna–Ohrid flights several weeks early and thin the last weeks of the season, EX-YU A...
Airlines
LOT To Take Two Virgin Atlantic 787-9s In 2027
LOT Polish Airlines will take two used Boeing 787-9s from Virgin Atlantic in the first half of 2027, aero.uk reported on 1 Sept...
Airlines
SAS Completes Starlink On All 81 A320neo Aircraft
SAS said on 1 September 2026 that it has finished installing Starlink high-speed Wi-Fi across its entire Airbus A320neo fleet o...
Airlines
United Holds Lie-Flat Seats For Delayed 737 MAX 10
United Airlines is sitting on hundreds of lie-flat seats bought for the Boeing 737 MAX 10 while that jet still lacks a type cer...
Airlines
Singapore Airlines Starts Daily Western Sydney A350 2026
Singapore Airlines starts daily Changi–Western Sydney A350-900 flights on 23 November 2026, Simple Flying reported from OAG data.
Airlines
ChangAn Adds Yichang-Kuala Lumpur And Manila Flights
Chang’An Airlines has scheduled two additional Southeast Asia routes from Yichang in September 2026, with a weekly Boeing 737-8...
Airlines
Centrum Air Resumes Tashkent-Hambantota This Winter
Uzbekistan’s Centrum Air plans to resume Tashkent–Mattala (Hambantota) in Northern winter 2026/27, last served until January 20...
Airlines
EVA Air Changes Brisbane Flight Numbers From Late October
EVA Air filed flight-number changes on Taipei Taoyuan–Brisbane on Monday 31 August 2026, with the three-weekly Boeing 787-10 du...
Airlines
Indonesia AirAsia Puts Fifth Daily A320 On Denpasar-Perth
AirAsia Group carriers are adjusting Australia flying in Northern winter 2026/27, including a fifth daily Airbus A320 on Indone...
Airlines
JAL Resumes Tokyo Narita-Shanghai Pudong This Winter
Japan Airlines plans to resume Tokyo Narita–Shanghai Pudong in Northern winter 2026/27 after a summer hiatus, operating the cit...
Airlines
China Southern Puts A321neo On Beijing-Urumqi-Ashgabat
China Southern has scheduled an aircraft change on Beijing Daxing–Urumqi–Ashgabat for Northern winter 2026/27, with the Airbus ...
Airlines
Tianjin Airlines Puts One-Time E195 On Osaka Kansai
Tianjin Airlines has scheduled a one-time Embraer E195 in place of its usual Airbus A320 on Tianjin-Osaka Kansai, AeroRoutes re...
Airlines
Spring Airlines Restarts Yangzhou-Jeju Four Times Weekly
Spring Airlines has filed a resumption of Yangzhou-Jeju at the start of Northern winter 2026/27, with the Airbus A320 scheduled...
Airlines
JAL Expands Osaka Itami-Hokkaido Flights This Winter
Japan Airlines plans to expand Osaka Itami-Hokkaido flying in Northern winter 2026/27, including converting two summer seasonal...
Airlines
JetBlue Puts 200-Seat A321 On Fort Lauderdale-St Maarten
JetBlue has filed a capacity increase on Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood-St. Maarten for the fourth quarter of 2026, putting a 200-se...
Airlines
Delta Ends Boston-Honolulu Service On January 5 2027
Delta Air Lines will end Boston–Honolulu flying on 5 January 2027, a spokesperson told Simple Flying, truncating a winter servi...
Airlines
Hainan Puts A321neo On Beijing-Bangkok And Osaka In October
Hainan Airlines plans to put the Airbus A321neo onto international flying from October 2026, starting on two routes to and from...
Airlines
Scoot Puts A321neo On Singapore-Wuhan This Winter
Scoot plans to fly Singapore–Wuhan with a 236-seat Airbus A321neo in Northern winter 2026/27 instead of the Boeing 787-8, excep...
Airlines
FAA Tentatively Backs JetBlue Purchase Of Spirit LaGuardia Slots
The US Federal Aviation Administration said this week it is inclined to support JetBlue’s purchase of 22 former Spirit Airlines...
Airlines
Edelweiss Puts A340 On Zurich-Tenerife In October 2026
Edelweiss Air plans to operate the Airbus A340-300 on Zurich–Tenerife South on Mondays from 5 October to 19 October 2026, AeroR...
Airlines
Etihad Extends Abu Dhabi-Krakow Service Into Late 2027
Etihad Airways has filed Abu Dhabi–Krakow as a longer 2027 season than previously shown, with the Airbus A321LR seasonal servic...
Airlines
TAP Posts 99 Million Euro First-Half Loss As Fuel Jumps
TAP Air Portugal recorded a €99.2 million net loss in the first half of 2026 as jet-fuel costs rose faster than traffic and rev...
Airlines
Jetstar Japan Puts A321LR On Tokyo-Hong Kong This Winter
Jetstar Japan will replace Airbus A320s with 238-seat Airbus A321LR aircraft on Tokyo Narita–Hong Kong for most of Northern win...
Airlines
Emirates Resumes A380 On Osaka From September 2026
Emirates is scheduled to put the Airbus A380 back on Dubai–Osaka Kansai from 1 September 2026, replacing the Boeing 777-300ER o...
Airlines
Singapore Airlines Drops A380 On Dubai And Hong Kong 2026
Singapore Airlines has removed all future Airbus A380 flights on Singapore–Dubai and Singapore–Hong Kong, Simple Flying reporte...
Airlines
China Big Three Post 8.2 Billion Yuan First-Half Losses
Air China, China Eastern and China Southern reported a combined first-half 2026 net loss of about 8.2 billion yuan as jet-fuel ...
Aircraft
Hungarian Gripens Scramble After Stolen Cessna 172
Hungarian Air Force Gripen fighters were scrambled on 29 August 2026 after a Cessna 172 was taken without authorisation from Ka...
Routes
United Drops 8 Chicago Route Resumptions For 2026
United Airlines has removed planned service resumptions on eight Chicago O'Hare domestic routes from its northern summer 2026 s...
Airlines
Nashville Airport Moves To Be Renamed For Dolly Parton
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Nashville International Airport have announced plans to rename BNA in honour of Dolly Parton, days ...
Aircraft
Boeing 737 MAX 7 Certified, MAX 10 And 777-9 Next
With the 737 MAX 7 certified on August 3, 2026, Boeing's remaining certification work now centres on the 737 MAX 10 and the 777...
Routes
Alaska Airlines Cuts 7 Routes, Revives San Jose-LAX
Alaska Airlines is dropping seven routes, three of them from Puerto Vallarta, while restoring San Jose-Los Angeles with four da...
Airlines
United Adds San Francisco-Okinawa Flights March 2027
United will fly San Francisco to Okinawa three times a week with the Boeing 777-200ER from March 27, 2027, alongside a new Los ...
Airlines
American Pays $200,000 In EEOC Blindness Case 2026
American Airlines will pay $200,000 and overhaul its accessibility processes to settle an EEOC disability discrimination lawsui...
Airlines
American Hires 60 Techs To Fix Cabin Defects 2026
American Airlines has hired more than 60 additional maintenance technicians under a new internal cabin programme aimed at broke...
Airlines
Ex-Aeroflot Worker Convicted In $900K Parts Case
A federal jury in Florida convicted a former Aeroflot employee on all 12 counts over a scheme to route more than $900,000 of US...
Airlines
Turkish Aerospace Flies First Production Hurjet 2026
The first production-standard Hurjet advanced jet trainer built for the Turkish Air Force flew for 18 minutes on 30 August 2026...
Safety
Delta A321neo Diverts To Fort Myers, Strands Passengers
A Delta Airbus A321neo diverted to Fort Myers during Tampa thunderstorms on 29 August. Passengers who went to baggage claim cou...
Airlines
Air Arabia Adds Sharjah-Dusseldorf Flights In December
Air Arabia will launch daily nonstop flights between Sharjah and Düsseldorf on December 16, 2026, adding a third German destina...
Airlines
Southwest Tops 100 Daily International Flights
Southwest Airlines has exceeded 100 daily international departures for the first time in its history, a milestone reached durin...
Airlines
Frontier Cuts Diamond Status Threshold To 75,000
Frontier Airlines has cut the bar for the top tier of its Frontier Miles loyalty programme, reducing the Elite Diamond qualific...
Airlines
Qantas Opens $65M Sydney Crew Training Centre
Qantas has opened a 6,300-square-metre Emergency Procedures Training Centre in Sydney and added Australia's first Airbus A350 s...
Airlines
American Restarts Miami-Caracas Flights September 3
American Airlines will resume Miami-Caracas flying on September 3 with two daily services, roughly ten weeks after the deadly V...
Airlines
Judge Bars Southwest From Firing Attendant Over Posts
A North Texas judge issued a permanent injunction stopping Southwest Airlines from using flight attendant Charlene Carter's fut...
Aircraft
Rolls-Royce Triples Boeing 787 Engine Overhaul Life
A redesigned high-pressure turbine blade with 40% more cooling flow sits at the centre of the Trent 1000 XE package, which Roll...
Airlines
Airlink E-Jets Skim Cape Town Stadium In Flyover
Two Airlink Embraer E190s flew a low-level pass over Cape Town's DHL Stadium before the Springboks-All Blacks Test, and the foo...
Airlines
American Starts Chicago-Tokyo Flights March 19
American Airlines is bringing forward the launch of its nonstop service between Chicago O’Hare International Airport and Tokyo ...
Routes
United Puts A321XLR On 2 Dulles Routes In 2026
United Airlines will introduce its Airbus A321XLR on domestic flying before sending it across the Atlantic. According to Simple...
Airlines
Air Canada Drops Montreal-Algiers Plan For 2027
Air Canada has removed the schedule filing for its planned Montreal–Algiers route, according to schedule data reported by AeroR...
Airlines
JetBlue Loses Two Icahn Board Members In 2026
Carl Icahn's activist position in JetBlue Airways has largely unwound, and with it the two board seats that came with it. Icahn...
Airlines
South Korea Starts Sixth-Generation Fighter Study
South Korea has formally opened the paperwork on its next fighter. The country's Defense Acquisition Program Administration, DA...
Airlines
Riyadh Air Opens Six Domestic Saudi Links In 2026
Riyadh Air has switched on its codeshare partnership with Saudia from late August 2026, and the practical effect is immediate: ...
Airlines
Best Aviation Watches for Women Pilots
Best aviation watches for women pilots in 2026: slim quartz dials, cockpit-instrument faces, rugged S-Shock models and smart wa...
Airlines
China Eastern Makes Shanghai-Sapporo Daily In NW26
China Eastern will increase Shanghai Pudong to Sapporo New Chitose from three weekly to one daily flight from October 25, 2026,...
Airlines
Jetstar Japan Lifts Tokyo-Taipei To 18 Weekly In Dec
Jetstar Japan will expand Tokyo Narita to Taipei Taoyuan from 14 to 18 weekly flights effective December 26, 2026, using a mix ...
Airlines
Storms Force SWISS To Cancel 85 Zurich Flights
Severe thunderstorms and repeated lightning strikes at Zurich Airport on August 28 forced SWISS to cancel 85 flights, affecting...
Safety
United 757 Diverts To Las Vegas After Engine Issue
A United Airlines Boeing 757-200 operating Flight 1403 from Los Angeles to Newark diverted to Las Vegas on August 27 after the ...
Routes
Malaysia Airlines Puts A330neo On Osaka Route In 2027
Malaysia Airlines is lining up its newest widebody for one of its most established Japanese routes. In a recent schedule update...
Airlines
ANA Extends 777-300 Domestic Flying To January 2027
ANA has pushed the planned retirement window for one of the largest aircraft in domestic airline service a little further out. ...
Airlines
Finnair Adds Third Weekly Krabi Flight In Jan 2027
Finnair is putting extra capacity into Krabi at the peak of the Thai high season. The Oneworld carrier has filed additional ser...
Airlines
Kuwait Airways Adds Kuwait City-Phuket In NW26
Kuwait Airways is adding Phuket to its network for the 2026/27 northern winter season. The Kuwaiti flag carrier has filed a Kuw...
Airlines
Saab Gripen F Completes First Flight In Sweden
Saab has flown the two-seat version of its newest fighter for the first time. The Gripen F took off from the company's airfield...
Airlines
American Airlines Revises 40% Downgrade Refund Rule
American Airlines has changed the way it compensates passengers who are involuntarily downgraded, after a complaint filed with ...
Airlines
S7 Airlines Adds Novosibirsk-Colombo In December 2026
S7 Airlines will launch service to Sri Lanka during the Northern winter 2026/27 season, opening a twice-weekly Novosibirsk to C...
Airlines
EVA Air Lifts Taipei-Hangzhou To 5 Weekly In NW26
EVA Air will increase its Taipei Taoyuan to Hangzhou service during the Northern winter 2026/27 season, taking the route from t...
Airlines
United Adds A321XLR Amsterdam And Dublin In December
United Airlines has opened reservations for its planned Airbus A321XLR international operation during the Northern winter 2026/...
Safety
Delta Flight Diverts To Detroit After Pilot Illness
A scheduled Delta Air Lines service from Los Angeles International Airport to Boston Logan International Airport diverted to De...
Airlines
Air New Zealand Posts NZ$242 Million Annual Loss
Air New Zealand has reported a net loss after taxation of around NZ$242 million (roughly US$144 million) for its 2026 financial...
Airlines
ACARS Explained: How Airliners Text Their Airline
ACARS explained for pilots and avgeeks: how aircraft datalink works over VHF, SATCOM and HFDL, what OOOI messages are, and why ...
Airlines
South African Airways Adds Emirates Kinshasa Codeshare
Emirates has extended its codeshare partnership with South African Airways to cover the Johannesburg to Kinshasa route, with th...
Airlines
BermudAir Adds Newark-South Caicos Flights Dec 2026
BermudAir will launch twice-weekly Newark to South Caicos service from 20 December 2026, operated by the Embraer E190 and addin...
Aircraft
Boeing Engineers Reject Deal Raising 2026 Strike Risk
Boeing faces a fresh threat of labour disruption after members of the SPEEA engineering union voted down a four-year contract o...
Airlines
Etihad Doubles Abu Dhabi-Zanzibar Flights In NW26
Etihad Airways will lift its Abu Dhabi-Zanzibar route from four weekly flights to one daily from 25 October 2026, then add a se...
Airlines
Air Canada Revises Copenhagen And Manchester Flights
Air Canada has again adjusted its planned Airbus A321XLR deployment to Copenhagen and Manchester, with the narrowbody now movin...
Airlines
Delta Eyes Los Angeles-London Return By 2029
Delta Air Lines is considering restarting nonstop flights between Los Angeles and London Heathrow, with the carrier aiming to h...
Airlines
DHL 737 Freighter Blows Four Tires At LAX
A DHL-liveried Boeing 737-800 freighter operated by Kalitta Charters II blew four tires and trailed flames from its main landin...
Routes
Discover Airlines Adds First UK Routes For 2027
Discover Airlines is entering the British market for the first time. The Lufthansa Group leisure carrier will launch Airbus A32...
Aircraft
Airbus Workers In Spain Begin Indefinite Strike
Thousands of Airbus employees in Spain have begun an indefinite strike after workers rejected a company proposal on pay and wor...
Airlines
American Airlines Adds Vienna, Porto And Reykjavik In 2027
American Airlines has unveiled seven new international routes for the summer 2027 season, adding Vienna, Porto and Reykjavik to...
Airlines
Riyadh Air Revises Manila Flights For September 2026
Riyadh Air has trimmed the opening weeks of its Manila service. In filings lodged on 25 August 2026, the Saudi start-up confirm...
Routes
Air Canada Delays Toronto-Martinique Launch To December
Air Canada has pushed back the start of its planned Toronto – Martinique service by almost two months. In a schedule update fil...
Airlines
Nesma Adds Giza Sphinx-Madinah Flights In September
Egypt’s Nesma Airlines is opening a new religious-travel corridor from the Cairo area. From September 2026 the carrier plans to...
Airlines
Asiana Lifts Seoul-Seattle To Daily In December 2026
Asiana Airlines is putting more capacity back into one of its longest-running North American markets. According to schedule fil...
Airlines
Aviation Photography — Pilots Behind the Lens
Aviation photography for pilots: the FAA sterile flight deck and PED rules, the right lens and polariser, prop-blur shutter spe...
Airlines
Finnair Drops Helsinki-Dubai For Winter 2026
Finnair has cancelled its Helsinki–Dubai service for the entire Northern winter 2026/27 season, removing a daily long-haul rota...
Airlines
Air Arabia Adds Sharjah-Gdansk From December 2026
Air Arabia will open a new nonstop route between its Sharjah base and Gdansk on 14 December 2026, extending the low-cost carrie...
Airlines
Britten-Norman Tests First UK-Built Islander 2026
Britten-Norman has begun ground testing the first Islander to be built in the United Kingdom since the manufacturer brought ful...
Airlines
Qantas Unveils A321XLR And 787 Business Suites
Qantas has revealed the Business Class suites that will appear on its next batches of Airbus A321XLR and Boeing 787-9 Dreamline...
Airlines
Qantas Moves A380 Retirement Forward To 2028
Qantas has brought forward the retirement of its ten Airbus A380 superjumbos by four years, with the world's largest passenger ...
Airlines
Cyprus Airways Adds Munich And Rome In December 2026
Cyprus Airways will add Larnaca-Munich from 17 December 2026 and Larnaca-Rome Fiumicino from 11 December 2026, both twice weekl...
Routes
Wizz Air Adds 3 Sarajevo Routes From December 2026
Wizz Air will add Berlin, Bratislava and Prague services at Sarajevo from December 2026, each twice weekly on the Airbus A321neo.
Airlines
Saudia Adds 3 Weekly Manchester Flights In 2027
Saudia has opened reservations for a Jeddah-Manchester increase from seven to ten weekly flights from 2 January 2027, with the ...
Airlines
Sepehran 737 Runs Off Mashhad Runway In Iran
A Sepehran Airlines Boeing 737-500 veered off the runway after landing at Mashhad on 25 August 2026. All 127 people aboard evac...
Airlines
Delta Restarts New York-Tel Aviv Flights In September
Delta Air Lines will resume daily nonstop New York JFK-Tel Aviv flights on 6 September 2026 using the Airbus A330-900neo, endin...
Airlines
Xiamen Airlines Restores 3rd Weekly Vancouver Flight
Xiamen Airlines is putting more capacity back into Canada. At the start of the 2026/27 northern winter season the carrier plans...
Routes
Asiana Europe Routes Switch To Korean Air Jets
The clearest sign yet of how the Korean Air – Asiana merger will look to passengers has appeared in a schedule filing. From 17 ...
Airlines
Uganda Airlines Adds Entebbe-Kigali From Nov 2026
Uganda Airlines is opening one of the shortest and most obvious gaps in its network. In the fourth quarter of 2026 the national...
Routes
Sky Express Adds Athens-Cairo Route From Dec 2026
Greek carrier Sky Express is adding Egypt to its network. From 2 December 2026 the airline will launch a new Athens – Cairo rou...
Airlines
Aeroflot Lifts Moscow-Shanghai To 9 Weekly In NW26
Aeroflot has filed additional Moscow Sheremetyevo to Shanghai Pudong flights for part of the northern winter 2026/27 season, li...
Industry
Saudia Signs Airbus Fleet Financing Deal In Paris
Saudia Group has signed a three-way memorandum of understanding with Saudi EXIM Bank and Credit Agricole CIB in Paris to arrang...
Airlines
Kenya Airways Nears 777 Freighter Lease Deal 2026
Kenya Airways is close to agreeing a long-term lease for a Boeing 777 freighter as it chases a 40% share of its home cargo mark...
Aircraft
Airbus Belfast A220 Workers Ballot For Strike 2026
Two unions at Airbus in Belfast will ballot members for strike action after rejecting the manufacturer's latest pay offer, putt...
Aircraft
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III: The Ultimate Military Airlifter
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III explained: 170,900 lb payload, 3,500 ft runways, four F117 engines, 2,400 nm range and why nothing ...
Airlines
Virgin Atlantic Cuts London-Toronto Flights In Winter 2026
Virgin Atlantic has trimmed its London Heathrow to Toronto Pearson schedule for the 2026/27 northern winter season, dropping fr...
Airlines
United Has Hundreds Of Unused Polaris Seats In Storage
United CEO Scott Kirby says the airline has hundreds of lie-flat business class seats sitting in deep storage, ordered in 2018 ...
Airlines
Air France Adds La Première First Class To San Francisco
Air France has brought its top-tier La Première first-class cabin to San Francisco, with the product now offered on one of the ...
Airlines
Singapore's Homegrown eVTOL Completes Flight Tests
Two NTU-built demonstrators flew close to 40 sorties during a month-long campaign at DLR's Cochstedt centre in Germany, capping...
Airlines
Jin Air, Air Busan, Air Seoul To Merge In 2027
South Korea's three flag-carrier-linked low-cost airlines have approved a plan to combine into a single carrier, provisionally ...
Airlines
easyJet Delays Apollo Takeover Document To October
easyJet and Apollo have pushed the deadline for publishing the scheme document on the GBP 5.7 billion takeover back to 15 Octob...
Airlines
FAA Supersonic Boom Rule Draws Environmental Fire
Environmental groups and even some industry voices are attacking the FAA's proposed 0.11 lb/sq ft overpressure limit, arguing t...
Aircraft
Boeing Wins $130B Global F-15 Sustainment Deal
Boeing has been awarded a contract worth more than $130 billion covering sustainment and modernisation of the global F-15 fight...
Aircraft
Embraer Phenom 300EV Wins Triple Certification
Embraer announced on 25 August that the Phenom 300EV has been certificated by three regulators at once: Brazil's ANAC, the US F...
Safety
SWISS 777 Diverts To Azores After Cabin Odour
A SWISS International Air Lines Boeing 777-300ER flying from Chicago O'Hare to Zurich diverted to Lajes Airport on the Azores i...
Airlines
United A321XLR To Fly Luxembourg And Toulouse 2027
United Airlines unveiled 10 new international routes for 2027 on 25 August, and five of them will be flown by the airline's inc...
Airlines
Kitz-Air Buys 3 H225s For European Firefighting
Lessor Milestone Aviation has sold three Airbus Helicopters H225 heavy twins to Austrian operator Kitz-Air, which will convert ...
Airlines
China Eastern Cuts Middle East Flights In NW26
China Eastern has extended its Shanghai Pudong-Abu Dhabi suspension, closed reservations on Shanghai-Dubai and trimmed Shanghai...
Airlines
French bee A350 Strikes Ground Worker At Montreal
A ground worker was seriously injured on the apron at Montreal-Trudeau on the evening of August 24 while a French bee Airbus A3...
Safety
Delta A330 Diverts To St. John's With 280 Aboard
A Delta Air Lines Airbus A330-300 operating flight DL182 from New York JFK to Rome diverted to St. John's in Newfoundland after...
Airlines
FAA Knowledge Test 2026 — Best Study Resources & How to Pass First Try
The 2026 guide to the FAA written test: question counts, passing scores, cost, ACS codes, and the best study resources compared...
Airlines
IndiGo Adds Gaya-Bangkok Flights From October 2026
IndiGo has opened reservations for a new twice-weekly Gaya to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi service using Airbus A320neo aircraft, start...
Routes
AirAsia X Cancels Kuala Lumpur-Delhi Route In 2026
AirAsia X has announced it will drop its four-times-weekly Kuala Lumpur to Delhi service from 25 October 2026, the start of the...
Industry
US Army Orders 10 More UH-72B Lakotas In 2026
A $140 million contract awarded on 14 August covers 10 firm UH-72B Lakota light utility helicopters from Airbus Helicopters, wi...
Airlines
Textron Aviation Names Brian Rohloff CEO In 2026
Textron has confirmed that Brian Rohloff will become CEO and President of Textron Aviation from 31 August 2026, succeeding Ron ...
Airlines
Air India Expands Reconfigured 787 Network In NW26
Air India will place refurbished Boeing 787-8 and 787-9 aircraft on more Mumbai international routes from the start of the Nort...
Airlines
flynas Adds Dammam-Karachi Flights In September 2026
Saudi low-cost carrier flynas is adding another Pakistani destination to its network. From 9 September 2026 the airline will fl...
Airlines
UPS Invests $2 Billion In New Asia Air Hubs
UPS is spending more than $2 billion to expand its air-cargo hubs and logistics operations, doubling down on international frei...
Airlines
Israir Wins FAA Approval For Tel Aviv-New York
Israeli leisure carrier Israir has secured final clearance from the US Federal Aviation Administration to operate scheduled com...
Airlines
Archer Plans Downtown Los Angeles Vertiport At L.A. LIVE
Archer Aviation and AEG announced on 24 August 2026 that they plan to develop a vertiport at L.A. LIVE, the entertainment distr...
Routes
ANA Launches Remote Robot Airport Support In Japan
All Nippon Airways has begun rolling out remote passenger support at multiple regional airports in Japan, using robots operated...
Airlines
Vancouver Gains 3 Extra Weekly A350 Flights In 2027
China Eastern is more than doubling its transpacific service between Shanghai and Vancouver, lifting the route from two weekly ...
Airlines
Korean Air Opens Daily Hiroshima Flights In December
Korean Air has opened reservations for a new route to Japan, scheduling one daily flight between Seoul Incheon and Hiroshima fr...
Airlines
Asiana Flies One-Time A380 To Bangkok In Sep 2026
Asiana Airlines has scheduled a single Airbus A380 rotation to Thailand next month, putting the superjumbo on the Seoul Incheon...
Airlines
Starlux Adds 5th Weekly Taipei-Ontario Flight 2026
Starlux Airlines is adding frequency on one of its more unusual North American routes, filing a fifth weekly flight between Tai...
Airlines
S7 A320 Landed On Closed Runway At Makhachkala
Russian regulators are restricting visual approaches at airports where a runway under construction could be mistaken for the on...
Aircraft
Boeing Union Rejects Offer, Authorizes 2026 Strike
Thousands of Boeing engineers and technical staff are now positioned to strike if contract talks with the manufacturer fail to ...
Airlines
Air India A320neo Lost All 3 Hydraulics In Cruise
Airbus has asked Air India for details of hydraulic system maintenance carried out on one of its Airbus A320neo jets, after ind...
Airlines
Norway Cleared To Buy 21 UH-60M Black Hawks For $2.3B
The United States has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Norway of up to 21 Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters, t...
Airlines
Oman Air And SalamAir Both Name New CEOs In 2026
The two largest airlines in the Sultanate of Oman are changing chief executives within weeks of each other. On 20 August 2026, ...
Routes
Jetstar Japan Plans Okinawa-Kaohsiung Launch December 2026
Jetstar Japan has filed schedules for a proposed new international route linking Okinawa with Kaohsiung, with operations pencil...
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