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Frontier Returns To Oakland With Las Vegas Flights
Frontier Airlines returned to Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport on August 20, launching 11x-weekly nonstop service to Las Vegas...
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Air Arabia Opens Katowice Route From December 17
Air Arabia is adding a third Polish destination to its Sharjah network. The Sharjah-based low-cost carrier has filed schedules for a new nonstop service between Sharjah International Airport and Katowice in southern P...
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Study: Aircrew Face Highest Radiation Cancer Death Risk
Pilots and flight attendants face the highest risk of dying from radiation-related cancers of any occupation studied in the Uni...
Routes
Breeze Airways Suspends 4 Florida Routes In September
Breeze Airways is trimming its Florida network next month, temporarily suspending four routes to and from the state for most of...
Routes
United Launches 109-Mile Los Angeles-Bakersfield Route
United Airlines has quietly added one of the shortest scheduled flights in its domestic network, linking Los Angeles Internatio...
Airlines
Avianca Parent Abra Posts $766M Loss In Q2 2026
Abra Group, the parent company of Avianca, Gol and Wamos Air, has reported a sharply wider loss for the second quarter of 2026 ...
Airlines
SyberJet SJ30 Sets Light Jet Transcon Record
SyberJet Aircraft claimed on 21 August 2026 that one of its SJ30-2 business jets has set a new light jet transcontinental east-...
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Why The A380 Has Thrust Reversers On Two Engines Only
The world's largest passenger aircraft has four engines but only two thrust reversers. The reason sits at the tips of its 80-metre wingspan, where the outboard engines hang close to the unpaved edg...
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Why Recyclers Dread Retiring The A350 And 787
Carbon fibre made the A350 and 787 lighter and stronger than any airliner before them. It also made them far harder to take apa...
Airlines
Norway Strike Shuts Oslo Airport For Five Hours
A Norwegian air traffic controllers' strike closed Oslo Gardermoen to ordinary traffic between 06:30 and 11:30 on Sunday, wipin...
Safety
TUI 737 MAX Declares Fuel Emergency Over Manchester
A man walking onto the active airfield at Manchester Airport forced arrivals to stop late on Friday, diverting seven flights an...
Airlines
Saab Unveils A3-001 Uncrewed Combat Aircraft
Saab has pulled the covers off its next-generation uncrewed fighter. On 21 August 2026 the Swedish company unveiled a full-scal...
Airlines
Lufthansa Adds Singapore Codeshare To Kuala Lumpur
Two Star Alliance heavyweights are deepening their partnership on a route that neither of them has traditionally shared. Schedu...
Airlines
Delta Adds Extra Florida Flights For Holidays 2026
Delta Air Lines is loading extra Florida capacity for the 2026–27 holiday peak. Schedule filings published by AeroRoutes on 21 ...
Airlines
IndiGo Resumes Hyderabad-Male Flights In December 2026
IndiGo is bringing back a route it dropped nearly two years ago. Schedule filings reviewed by AeroRoutes on 21 August 2026 show...
Airlines
Air China Lifts Beijing-Vancouver To 5 Weekly
Air China is adding capacity on one of its longest-standing transpacific routes. Schedule filings published by AeroRoutes on 22...
Airlines
Ampaire Raises $19M From IAG And Alaska Airlines
Californian hybrid-electric aircraft developer Ampaire has closed a $19 million Series B funding round, bringing the total capi...
Airlines
American 737 Bursts A Tire At Chicago O'Hare
An American Airlines Boeing 737-800 burst a tire at Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) after landing, marking the third...
Airlines
Lufthansa Adds 5 Hot Economy Meals From September 2026
Lufthansa is expanding its buy-on-board catering programme, and for the first time the German flag carrier will offer properly ...
Airlines
Southwest Grows Nashville To Record 190 Daily Flights
Southwest Airlines has quietly reshaped its third-quarter timetable, and the biggest winner is Nashville International Airport ...
Airlines
SalamAir Closes Muscat-Medan Bookings In Late 2026
SalamAir has closed reservations on its three-weekly Muscat-Medan Kualanamu A321LR service for 15-25 September 2026 and for all...
Airlines
GOL Reworks Rio-Lisbon Flights For Early 2027
GOL has delayed the entry into service of its own Airbus A330-900neo on the Rio de Janeiro Galeao-Lisbon route from 16 January ...
Routes
Malaysia Airlines Boosts 4 Regional Routes In NW26
Malaysia Airlines has filed frequency increases on Kuala Lumpur services to Fukuoka, Manila, Surabaya and Xiamen for the Northe...
Airlines
Sweden Fires First Taurus Missile From Gripen
The Swedish Air Force launched a Taurus KEPD 350 cruise missile from a JAS 39 Gripen for the first time on 21 August 2026 at th...
Airlines
Delta Ends Pre-Departure Drinks At Pushback
Delta flight attendants must collect all airline-provided service items, including disposable cups, before pushback from Septem...
Airlines
Endeavor CRJ700 Struck Both Wingtips At Atlanta
US investigators believe an Endeavor Air CRJ700 struck the ground with both wing-tips at Atlanta after the captain did not comp...
Airlines
ANA Plans More Tokyo-Milan Flights In Early 2027
ANA has filed schedule changes indicating an increase on Tokyo Haneda-Milan Malpensa from three weekly to daily from 20 Februar...
Aircraft
US Approves 4 Boeing KC-46A Tankers For Qatar
The US State Department has approved a proposed $4.5 billion Foreign Military Sale of four Boeing KC-46A Pegasus aerial refuell...
Airlines
DHL Receives First Converted 777-200LR Freighter
Mammoth Freighters has delivered the first converted Boeing 777-200LRMF to leasing customer Jetran, which will place the aircra...
Safety
American A321 Declares Emergency After Laptop Fire
An American Airlines Airbus A321 with 133 people on board declared an emergency on approach to Dallas/Fort Worth on 21 August a...
Airlines
Best Gifts for Student Pilots
The best gifts for student pilots in 2026: 12 practical, flight-school-tested picks from $14.99, chosen by pilots and matched t...
Airlines
Virgin Australia Adds Perth-Alice Springs Charters In 2026
Virgin Australia is adding a weekly charter service between Perth and Alice Springs during the northern winter 2026/27 season, ...
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JTA Doubles Okinawa-Taipei Flights From September 2026
Japan TransOcean Air (JTA) is doubling its Okinawa-Taipei Taoyuan service, adding a second daily rotation from 24 September 202...
Routes
Allegiant Adds 9 New Routes From February 2027
Allegiant Air has opened reservations for nine new routes scheduled to begin in February 2027, extending the ultra-low-cost car...
Airlines
easyJet Ends Leeds/Bradford Flights In January 2027
easyJet will close out its remaining flying at Leeds/Bradford Airport in early January 2027, ending the low-cost carrier's pres...
Airlines
Delta 737-900ER Returns To Atlanta After Engine Issue
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 737-900ER returned to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) shortly after departing f...
Airlines
flyadeal Adds Madinah-Karachi Flights In September 2026
Saudi low-cost carrier flyadeal is expanding into Pakistan. The airline has filed a new two-weekly Madinah – Karachi route laun...
Routes
Fly2Galicia Opens 8 Santiago Routes In December 2026
Spain is getting a new airline. Fly2Galicia has opened reservations for its first schedule, and the plan is a focused one: a si...
Airlines
IndiGo Ends Chennai-Reunion Flights In October 2026
IndiGo is closing its route to Réunion. The Indian low-cost carrier has filed further changes to its Chennai – St Denis de la R...
Airlines
Qantas Near-Miss Is Sydney's Fourth In A Month
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has opened an investigation into a ground conflict between two Qantas aircraft at Sydney...
Aircraft
Boeing Repairs Cracked Air Force One 747-8 Stringers
Boeing is working through hundreds of microscopic cracks found in structural reinforcing members on the two Boeing 747-8 aircra...
Airlines
Ethiopian Keeps Atlanta At 3 Weekly Over Peak Season
Ethiopian Airlines has revised its planned peak-season frequency on the Addis Ababa – Atlanta route, cancelling an increase it ...
Airlines
ITA Airways Reworks Winter Long-Haul Schedule
ITA Airways has filed a further round of changes to its planned intercontinental operations for the 2026-27 northern winter sea...
Airlines
Air Canada Boosts Toronto-Paris To 10 Weekly
Air Canada is adding capacity between Toronto and Paris over the 2026-27 holiday season, lifting its Toronto Pearson – Paris Ch...
Safety
Eight Killed In Alaska Cessna 441 Crash 2026
Eight people were killed when a chartered Cessna 441 Conquest II crashed while approaching a remote United States military rada...
Airlines
TAP Air Portugal Adds Extra Berlin Flights In October 2026
TAP Air Portugal has filed seven extra Lisbon-Berlin round trips across four days in early October 2026, with most of them assi...
Airlines
RwandAir Reworks Brussels Service For Winter 2026
RwandAir will drop the Monday leg of its Kigali-Paris-Brussels routing from 2 November 2026, cutting Brussels from five to four...
Airlines
Air Algerie Resumes Algiers-Berlin In September 2026
Air Algerie will return to Berlin on 14 September 2026 with one weekly flight, its first service to the German capital since 20...
Airlines
FANS-1/A Explained: CPDLC, ADS-C and Oceanic Datalink for Pilots
What FANS-1/A really is: how CPDLC and ADS-C work, the North Atlantic datalink mandate, and what RCP240, RSP180 and the flight ...
Airlines
Himalaya Airlines Adds Kathmandu To Shanghai In September
Himalaya Airlines will launch Kathmandu to Shanghai Pudong from 7 September 2026, adding another Chinese destination to its net...
Airlines
Delta Extends 44-Seat First Class A321neo To Las Vegas
Delta is extending the use of a specially configured Airbus A321neo with 44 First Class seats between Atlanta and Las Vegas, wi...
Airlines
Ryanair Speeds Up Cabin Safety Demonstration
Ryanair cabin crew asked for a faster safety demonstration. The airline's new pre-recorded announcement is nearly 40 seconds sh...
Airlines
United Opens Phase 1 Of World's Largest Training Center
United Airlines has completed the first phase of an expansion at its Denver Flight Training Center, adding 40 new CAE simulator...
Industry
Delta Wins Court Ruling Over Aeromexico Antitrust Order
A US federal appeals court has vacated the Department of Transportation order that stripped Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico of a...
Airlines
United Completes Denver Training Center Expansion
United Airlines has finished the first phase of an expansion at its Denver Flight Training Center, adding 40 new CAE simulators...
Routes
Qatar Airways Launches Starlink Wi-Fi Fleetwide
Qatar Airways has become the first airline to operate a Starlink-equipped Boeing 787-9, taking its total of Starlink-fitted wid...
Airlines
Loganair Exits Dundee Airport In October 2026
Loganair will close its Dundee base and withdraw from the Scottish airport entirely on October 23, 2026, ending the Dundee–Lond...
Routes
Cathay Pacific To Launch Hong Kong-Almaty In 2027
Cathay Pacific will open its first-ever route to Central Asia, announcing plans for nonstop flights between Hong Kong and Almat...
Airlines
Alaska Airlines Adds Paris And Athens In 2027
Alaska Airlines will add Athens and Paris to its Seattle long-haul network next year, extending a transformation that has taken...
Safety
Seven Killed In EC130 Helicopter Crash In Kenya
Seven people were killed, five of them Americans, when a tourist helicopter crashed in a remote area of northern Kenya on 19 Au...
Airlines
Unqualified Passenger Likely Flew Phenom In Santa Rosa Overrun
Brazilian investigators believe an unqualified passenger was probably at the controls of an Embraer Phenom 100 that overran the...
Airlines
United Pilot Caught On Hot Mic Insulting Cabin Crew
A United Airlines pilot was caught on an open public-address microphone insulting the flight attendants towards the end of a ro...
Airlines
Scoot Adds Guiyang To China Network In October 2026
Singaporean low-cost operator Scoot will expand its Mainland China network with the launch of thrice-weekly flights to the sout...
Airlines
Norse Atlantic Posts $95 Million Loss In First Half 2026
Norse Atlantic has reported a net loss of $95 million for the first half of 2026 — more than four times deeper than the same pe...
Airlines
Pilot Watches — Why They Matter & What to Choose
Why pilots still wear watches in a glass-cockpit world, the history behind Flieger, Navitimer and GMT designs, and how to choos...
Airlines
Philippine Airlines Lifts Manila-Seoul To 17 Weekly Flights
Philippine Airlines is increasing capacity between Manila and Seoul Incheon for the Northern winter 2026/27 season, taking the ...
Airlines
S7 Airlines Resumes Novosibirsk-Guangzhou In December 2026
S7 Airlines is returning to Guangzhou from its Siberian base at Novosibirsk, with twice-weekly flights scheduled to begin on 21...
Routes
Lucky Air Adds Kunming-Udon Thani Route In September 2026
Chinese low-cost carrier Lucky Air is opening a new route to Thailand, adding twice-weekly service between its Kunming base and...
Safety
Cessna 150 Pilot Killed In Carlisle Airport Midair Crash
The pilot of a Cessna 150 was killed and two Pennsylvania State Police troopers were injured on Wednesday evening when the ligh...
Routes
Air Arabia Plans Sharjah To Frankfurt Route For December 2026
Air Arabia has announced a new route from the United Arab Emirates to Germany, scheduling a Sharjah to Frankfurt launch on 15 D...
Aircraft
Airbus Boosts A220 Output To 13 Jets Monthly
Airbus has started construction on a major extension to its A220 wing facility in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as it prepares to ...
Airlines
US Air Force Scraps C-17 Flight Over Missile Alert
A United States Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III bound for Antarctica abandoned its mission and returned to Christchurch, ...
Airlines
NetJets Jet Lands Nose-Gear-Up In Ohio 2026
A NetJets Cessna Citation Longitude landed at Akron-Canton Airport (CAK) in Ohio on August 18, 2026 with its nose landing gear ...
Airlines
Eurowings Adds First Class Recliners In Europe
Eurowings is bringing genuine recliner seats to short-haul Europe. The German leisure carrier will install a fixed premium cabi...
Airlines
Alaska Adds San Diego-Kalispell Winter Flights
Alaska Airlines is adding a winter link between Southern California and northwest Montana. Schedule filings reported by AeroRou...
Airlines
United Delays Houston-Caracas Restart To 2027
United Airlines has again pushed back its planned return to Venezuela. Schedule filings reported by AeroRoutes on August 19, 20...
Routes
American Adds A321XLR Boston-Philadelphia Route 2026
American Airlines is putting its newest and longest-legged narrowbody on one of the shortest trips in its network. According to...
Airlines
Campbell Wilson Joins Air New Zealand Board
Air New Zealand is to appoint outgoing Air India chief executive Campbell Wilson as one of its directors, part of a wider refre...
Airlines
FAA Probes American 737s Sharing Same Callsign
Two American Airlines Boeing 737-800s were airborne in the same sector near Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport under the ...
Routes
ATR Identifies 209 New Indonesia Routes
Franco-Italian turboprop manufacturer ATR says it has identified 209 new domestic air routes across Indonesia that would be eco...
Aircraft
Boeing E-7 Wedgetail
The Boeing E-7 Wedgetail explained: 737-700 airframe, Northrop Grumman MESA radar, RAAF and RAF operations, and the 2026 US and...
Airlines
Alaska 787 Crews File Grievance Over Cabin Staffing
Flight attendants on Alaska Airlines' new Boeing 787-9 long-haul routes from Seattle have filed a formal grievance through AFA-...
Airlines
Air Peace Schedules Lagos-Sao Paulo 777 Flights
Air Peace has filed a Boeing 777-200ER schedule between Lagos and Sao Paulo Guarulhos for early October 2026, currently as a si...
Airlines
ANA And JAL To Coordinate Japan Domestic Schedules
ANA and Japan Airlines will coordinate flight timings on the Tokyo Haneda-Okayama route from the Northern Winter season under g...
Airlines
Korean Air Adds Seoul-Melbourne Flights For Dec 2026
Korean Air will operate three weekly Boeing 787-9 flights between Seoul Incheon and Melbourne from 18 December 2026 to 14 March...
Routes
TAG Airlines Adds Flores-Merida ATR 72 Route
Guatemala's TAG Airlines is adding Mexico to its route map. At the launch of the Northern winter 2026/27 season the carrier pla...
Routes
Copa Airlines Adds Panama City-Porlamar Route
Copa Airlines is adding Porlamar to its Panama City network, with the Panamanian carrier scheduling three weekly flights betwee...
Airlines
Vision Jet Gear Collapses On Closed Idaho Runway
Newly released details from the City of Driggs, Idaho, have clarified what happened when a Cirrus Vision Jet attempted to take ...
Airlines
Pratt & Whitney Sees GTF Grounding Pain Easing 2026
Three years after Pratt & Whitney disclosed the recall that has kept hundreds of narrowbodies parked at any given moment, a...
Airlines
Alliance Aviation Names Ex-flyadeal Chief As CEO
Former flyadeal chief executive Steven Greenway has been appointed to lead Australia’s Alliance Aviation, as the operator prepa...
Airlines
Air Astana Extends Dubai Suspension To September 30
Air Astana is extending the suspension of its flights between Kazakhstan and Dubai until 30 September 2026, citing continued in...
Airlines
flydubai Resumes Iran Overflights After War Pause
Dubai-based low-cost carrier flydubai has begun routing aircraft through Iranian airspace again, the first confirmed transits s...
Airlines
Two American CRJs Fly With Identical Callsigns
Two PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ-700s operating as American Eagle flight AA5083 spent around 26 minutes airborne at the same tim...
Airlines
Turkish Airlines Plans Havana Return In Late October
Turkish Airlines plans to resume service to Cuba in the northern winter 2026/27 season with three weekly nonstop Istanbul - Hav...
Airlines
Lufthansa A380 Lands Short At Munich, Damages Lights
A Lufthansa Airbus A380 operating flight LH459 from San Francisco landed short of the runway at Munich Airport on 17 August 202...
Airlines
Rafale Pilot Spots Fuel Leak On Global 6000 Jet
A French Air and Space Force Rafale pilot on a routine training intercept identified fuel escaping from a Bombardier Global 600...
Airlines
Retired QantasLink Fokker 100 Joins Australian Museum
QantasLink has donated Fokker 100 VH-NPU, named Meekatharra, to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society at Shellharbour Air...
Airlines
SAS A320neo Aborts Malaga Approach After Airprox
Spanish investigator CIAIAC has disclosed that an SAS Airbus A320neo broke off its approach to Malaga on 6 July after a collisi...
Airlines
American Airlines Adds Seatback Screens To 800 Jets
American Airlines will retrofit every narrowbody Airbus and Boeing jet with 4K seatback entertainment screens, reversing its 20...
Airlines
China Eastern Adds Shanghai-Amsterdam Flights From September
China Eastern is putting significantly more capacity into the Netherlands this autumn. Schedule filings published on 18 August ...
Routes
Juneyao Airlines Plans Manila Launch In September 2026
Juneyao Airlines is adding the Philippines to its international map. Schedule filings published on 18 August 2026 show the Shan...
Airlines
Riyadh Air And ANA Sign MoU On Saudi-Japan Links
Riyadh Air and All Nippon Airways have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at expanding connectivity between Saudi Arabi...
Aircraft
Textron Delivers 500th Cessna Citation CJ4
Textron Aviation announced on August 17, 2026 that the 500th aircraft in the Citation CJ4 series has been handed over, a milest...
Airlines
China Airlines Plans One-Off Taipei-Prague 777 Flight
China Airlines has filed a one-time aircraft change on its Taipei Taoyuan to Prague route, swapping the Airbus A350-900 that no...
Airlines
SWISS Swaps A220s For A320s At Geneva Base
SWISS is upgauging its Geneva operation. The Lufthansa Group carrier announced on August 17, 2026 that it will replace two Airb...
Airlines
Qantas A380 Flew To Dallas With Light Left In Wing
A Qantas Airbus A380 flew two long-haul passenger sectors between Sydney and Dallas Fort Worth with a maintenance work light se...
Airlines
Pilot Medical Class 1 vs Class 2 vs Class 3 — Differences
FAA first, second and third class medical certificates compared: who needs which, duration by age, vision and hearing standards...
Safety
Bell 206 Crash On Greek Island Sifnos Kills Three
Three people were killed when a private Bell 206 JetRanger helicopter crashed on the Greek island of Sifnos on Monday 17 August...
Airlines
Somali Airlines To Fly Again After 35-Year Pause
Somalia is preparing to put its national airline back in the air. Somali Airlines, the country’s flag carrier, is set to resume...
Airlines
Korean Air Boosts Seoul-Lisbon To 4 Weekly From Sep 2026
Korean Air is adding frequency on one of its newest European routes. From late September 2026 the SkyTeam carrier plans to incr...
Airlines
FAA Hands ATC Network Overhaul To AT&T In Multibillion Deal
The FAA has moved a central part of its air traffic control network modernisation to AT&T under an initial $74.3 million aw...
Airlines
Retired Luftwaffe Transalls Return As Firefighting Aircraft
Two Transall C-160Ds retired by the Luftwaffe are being converted into armoured firefighting aircraft, with their military Kevl...
Airlines
Korean Air Adds 5th Weekly Seoul-Brisbane 787-9 Flight
Korean Air will add a fifth weekly Seoul Incheon-Brisbane rotation from 20 December 2026, keeping the Boeing 787-9 on the route...
Routes
Cathay Pacific Puts A350-1000 On Delhi Route 2026
Cathay Pacific will run its largest Airbus twinjet on one of two daily Hong Kong-Delhi rotations from late October to the end o...
Airlines
United A320 And American 737 Burst Tires At O'Hare
Two arriving jets at Chicago O'Hare burst tires within hours of each other, with a United Airbus A320 and an American Boeing 73...
Airlines
Emirates A380s Now Worth More As Parts Than Flying
Emirates operates approximately 118 Airbus A380s — more than every other A380 operator in the world combined. The airline plans...
Routes
Starlux Schedules Kaohsiung-Kobe Launch For Jan 2027
Starlux Airlines has filed an operational schedule for a new Kaohsiung – Kobe route, with service listed to commence on 1 Janua...
Airlines
HK Express Plans A321neo Network Expansion For NW26
HK Express has tentatively filed a wave of Airbus A321neo changes across its Asian network, according to schedule data reviewed...
Airlines
IndiGo Expands A321neo International Network For Late 2026
IndiGo is preparing to put its largest narrowbody on a wider slice of its international map. Schedule filings reviewed by AeroR...
Airlines
Nordwind Adds Kazan-Uzbekistan Flights For 2026
Nordwind Airlines is continuing to build out its Kazan base with two new Uzbekistan routes, adding Namangan and Samarkand to a ...
Airlines
FAA Awards AT&T $74.3M Air Traffic Network Deal
The Federal Aviation Administration has moved a central piece of its air traffic control modernisation programme to AT&T, a...
Airlines
Google Buys Spirit Airlines Data For $10 Million 2026
Google will acquire a large cache of Spirit Airlines' business records after a $10 million offer beat rival bidders in a bankru...
Safety
Alaska 737 MAX 9 Shuts Down Engine, Diverts To Chicago
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 shut down one of its engines at 34,000 feet on Sunday after the flight crew received a low ...
Airlines
ATR Targets 2029 Flight For Hybrid-Electric Demo
ATR expects to finish the first baseline design of its hybrid-electric ATR 72-600 demonstrator by the end of 2026, ahead of a p...
Airlines
L3Harris Ousts CEO Kubasik Over Conduct 2026
L3Harris removed chairman and chief executive Christopher Kubasik with immediate effect on 17 August 2026 after a board investi...
Airlines
airBaltic Bondholders Approve New Bond Terms 2026
airBaltic's bondholders have approved amendments to the carrier's EUR 380 million 2029 notes, rolling up interest payments and ...
Airlines
South African Airways Suspends Acting CEO
South African Airways interim chief executive Matshela Seshibe has been suspended after only four months in the role, adding to...
Airlines
TAAG Angola Airlines Flies Live Lions To Nigeria
TAAG Angola Airlines has disclosed details of a cargo charter that carried two adult lions weighing around 200 kilograms each f...
Aircraft
UPS Boeing 767 Lands In Denver After Instrument Failure
A UPS Airlines Boeing 767-300 Freighter arriving into Denver lost its primary flight displays on approach and was flown to a sa...
Airlines
Air India A320neo Lost Flight Controls For Four Seconds
An internal Airbus assessment reviewed by Reuters indicates that the Air India A320neo which dropped roughly 300 feet on August...
Airlines
Turbulent Pilot Hurt At Stow Maries Air Show
A pilot was seriously injured when a single-seat Druine D.31 Turbulent was damaged during a display at the Stow Maries Air Show...
Routes
Brussels Airlines Launches Lapland Winter Flights
Brussels Airlines announced on 17 August 2026 that it will significantly increase the capacity it offers to Europe's far north ...
Airlines
Lufthansa Shifts A380s From US To Asia In 2027
Lufthansa is rearranging its Airbus A380 flying in the first quarter of 2027, pulling the superjumbo off two US West Coast rout...
Airlines
Etihad Boosts Denpasar, Hanoi And Phuket Flights
Etihad Airways has filed a broad expansion of its Southeast Asia schedule for the Northern winter 2026/27 season, adding freque...
Airlines
Nordwind Revises Moscow-Pyongyang Schedule For 2026
Nordwind Airlines has made permanent a revised overnight departure from Pyongyang on its monthly Moscow Sheremetyevo service, m...
Routes
S7 Adds Novosibirsk-Chengdu Route From October 2026
S7 Airlines will launch twice-weekly Airbus A320 service between Novosibirsk and Chengdu Tianfu from October 26, 2026, continui...
Airlines
TAAG Flies Two Lions From Johannesburg To Lagos
TAAG Angola Airlines has disclosed details of a special cargo mission in which two adult lions weighing around 200 kilograms ea...
Airlines
easyJet Cancels 100 French Flights In Crew Strike
easyJet called off around 100 flights from French airports across the weekend of August 15-16 as cabin crew walked out over rep...
Industry
US Army Picks Robinson R66 For Training Fleet
The US Army has selected the Robinson R66 as its next primary helicopter trainer under a contract with M1 Support Services wort...
Airlines
Spanish F-18 Downs Drone Over Romania
A Spanish Air and Space Force F/A-18 Hornet shot down a drone over southeastern Romania in the early hours of 16 August 2026, t...
Airlines
Syrian Airlines Resumes Damascus-Moscow Flights
A Syrian Airlines passenger flight touched down at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO) on 16 August 2026, the fir...
Airlines
Avianca Cargo Flies 60 More Tons Of Colombia Aid
Avianca Cargo flew a further 60 tonnes of humanitarian supplies from Miami to Cali aboard an A330 freighter on 14 August, takin...
Safety
Bomb Threat Strands Southwest Passengers At Houston
A reported bomb threat involving a Southwest Airlines flight at Houston Hobby Airport left passengers sitting on the tarmac for...
Airlines
Etna Ash Shuts Catania Airport, 700 Flights Cut
Around 700 flights have been cancelled at Catania Airport in Sicily as volcanic ash from an ongoing Mount Etna eruption repeate...
Safety
Transall Airlifters Return As German Water Bombers
Two retired German air force Transall C-160D transports are being rebuilt as firefighting aircraft, and the first of them is se...
Airlines
Pilatus Opens $123M Composite Center In Switzerland
Pilatus has opened a new CHF 100 million ($123 million) composite manufacturing center in Switzerland, the largest single-facil...
Aircraft
Akasa Air Signs Avolon Deal For Seven Boeing 737-8200s
Leasing giant Avolon announced on August 14, 2026, the sale and leaseback of up to seven Boeing 737-8200 aircraft with Indian c...
Airlines
Historic 1934 DH.88 Comet Damaged At Shuttleworth
The de Havilland DH.88 Comet G-ACSS “Grosvenor House” — the aircraft that won the speed section of the 1934 MacRobertson Air Ra...
Airlines
British Airways Baggage Fire At Milan Malpensa 2026
A fire broke out inside a baggage container at Milan Malpensa International Airport on Sunday afternoon, moments before the con...
Airlines
SFO Cleared To Increase Arrivals After FAA Parallel Landing Ban
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) will be allowed to handle more arrivals each hour after the Federal Aviation Administ...
Airlines
Etihad Revises NW26 Europe Network
Etihad Airways has filed a wave of adjustments to its European schedule for the Northern winter 2026/27 season, according to sc...
Airlines
Delta A330-900neo To Feature 56 Delta One Suites
Delta Air Lines is preparing to take long-haul premium capacity to a new level. According to a report from Simple Flying, the c...
Routes
Emirates Eyes Milan-Lima Fifth Freedom Route 2026
Emirates is reportedly close to winning approval for a new fifth-freedom route between Milan and Lima, a move that could mark t...
Airlines
Jeju Air Resumes Seoul-Batam Service 2026
Jeju Air is preparing to bring back its route between Seoul and the Indonesian island of Batam, restoring a link that will conn...
Safety
Frontier Flight Declares Medical Emergency In Air 2026
A Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland to Fort Lauderdale declared a medical emergency on the morning of August 13 after fou...
Airlines
Delta Ends 717 Flights At Minneapolis 2026
In May 2026, Delta Air Lines quietly ended all Boeing 717 service at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP). The move...
Routes
El Al Drops Tel Aviv-Hanoi 787 Route 2026
El Al Israel Airlines has closed reservations for its planned Tel Aviv–Hanoi service, shelving what would have been its first s...
Routes
United Launches Boston-Jackson Hole Flights In 2027
United Airlines is adding a new seasonal link between Boston and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, giving New England skiers and outdoor t...
Airlines
Etihad Adjusts US Flights For Winter 2026/27 Season
Etihad Airways has filed a fresh round of adjustments to its United States network for the Northern Hemisphere winter 2026/27 s...
Routes
Etihad Cancels Abu Dhabi-Asmara Launch 2026
Etihad Airways has cancelled a planned new route to Asmara as part of a broader revision to its African and Chinese network exp...
Safety
Delta A330neo Diverts Twice After Cabin Leak 2026
A Delta Air Lines long-haul service from Paris to Seattle turned into an unexpectedly long journey this week after a lavatory l...
Airlines
American Flies A321XLR On 243-Mile Boston Hop 2026
American Airlines has scheduled the shortest flight it has ever operated with the Airbus A321XLR, deploying its longest-range n...
Aircraft
United Takes First Airbus A321XLR To Replace 757s
United Airlines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A321XLR, registered N64321 — a notable shift for a carrier that has long...
Airlines
Ryanair Azores Exit Costs Region 1.5% Of GDP 2026
Ryanair’s decision to abandon the Azores has dealt a heavy blow to the archipelago’s economy, with local business leaders estim...
Airlines
Sundair Opens Berlin-Damascus Link After 14 Years
On August 15, 2026, a Sundair aircraft touched down at Damascus International Airport on the first scheduled direct flight from...
Industry
TUI May Cut Belgium Fleet Over New Tax 2026
TUI is threatening to reduce the number of aircraft it bases in Belgium, with the travel group pointing in part to the Belgian ...
Airlines
Vietnam Airlines 787 Overruns Munich Runway 2026
A Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner suffered a serious takeoff incident at Munich Airport on Saturday, 15 August 2026, o...
Airlines
Air India Revises Delhi-London And Paris Flights NW26
Air India has filed Northern winter 2026/27 schedule changes for its European network, increasing Delhi-London Heathrow A350-90...
Safety
Delta Flight Diverts Twice In 10-Hour Delay 2026
A Delta Air Lines Airbus A330-900 from Paris to Seattle arrived more than ten hours late after diverting twice, with a sewage l...
Airlines
China Southern Extends Darwin Service To December 2026
China Southern continues to list its Guangzhou-Darwin service through early December 2026, operating three times weekly with Bo...
Airlines
Best Aviation Christmas Gifts (2026) — Pilot Gift Guide
Our 2026 aviation Christmas gift guide: 12 real gifts for pilots and avgeeks — models, watches, mugs, jackets and jewellery, fr...
Routes
Aeroflot Adds Krasnodar-Gyumri Route In August 2026
Aeroflot is opening a new international link this month, connecting southern Russia with Armenia. From 28 August 2026, the carr...
Airlines
Beijing Capital Restarts Hangzhou-Vancouver Flights
Beijing Capital Airlines is returning to Canada. In October 2026 the carrier plans to resume service to Vancouver, having opene...
Airlines
Delta Adds Daily Austin-Paris Flights In 2027
Delta Air Lines is adding Texas to its transatlantic map. The carrier has filed the operational schedule for a new daily servic...
Airlines
SAA Names New Acting CEO After Leave 2026
South African Airways (SAA) has named a new acting group chief executive after placing its previous acting chief, Matshela Sesh...
Routes
United Cuts 35 Seats From 787-9 On Houston Route
United Airlines is doing something unusual with its newest Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners: deliberately removing seats. The carrier w...
Airlines
NTSB: Ryanair 737 Blade Failure Shattered Window 2026
A US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) preliminary report has detailed how a fractured fan blade tore through the eng...
Routes
VietJet Adds Da Nang-Osaka Route From Dec 2026
VietJet Air is expanding its Japanese network with a brand-new route linking central Vietnam to the Kansai region. According to...
Airlines
Delta 737 MAX 10 To Get 24 First Class Seats 2026
Delta Air Lines is preparing a notably premium-heavy cabin for its incoming Boeing 737 MAX 10 fleet, with First Class seating s...
Airlines
Azul Reports Record Revenue Despite Q2 Loss 2026
Brazilian carrier Azul reported record operating revenue for the second quarter of 2026, even as its losses widened under the w...
Airlines
Court Clears Pilot Lawsuit Against Delta 2026
A US federal judge has certified a class-action lawsuit by current and former Delta pilots alleging the airline denied paid lea...
Airlines
Norse Atlantic May Lease Six 787s To Asia 2026
Norse Atlantic Airways is in talks with two Asian airlines to lease up to six Boeing 787s long term, after IndiGo ended a damp-...
Airlines
Cebu Pacific Resumes Davao Intl Flights In 2026
Cebu Pacific will resume international flights from Davao to Bangkok and Hong Kong from late October 2026, using Airbus A320 an...
Routes
Emirates Cuts A380 On Two US Routes 2026
Emirates is again reshaping its Airbus A380 network, confirming that two of its major US routes will not see the double-decker ...
Airlines
American 737s Share Callsign Near Phoenix 2026
An air traffic controller at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport has been praised for the calm way he handled an unusual s...
Industry
FAA Orders Boeing 787 Fan Cowl Fix 2026
The US Federal Aviation Administration has proposed a new airworthiness directive that would require operators of certain Boein...
Airlines
Thai VietJet Boosts Bangkok Osaka To Daily Flights 2026
Thai VietJet Air is stepping up its presence in the Japanese market, with plans to increase its Bangkok–Osaka service to a dail...
Airlines
China Southern Extends Guangzhou Addis Ababa Service Into 2027
China Southern Airlines has extended bookings for its Guangzhou–Changsha–Addis Ababa service into the first quarter of 2027, si...
Aircraft
Akasa Air Agrees Sale-Leaseback Of Seven Boeing 737 MAX 2026
Indian low-cost carrier Akasa Air has agreed a sale-and-leaseback deal with leasing giant Avolon covering up to seven Boeing 73...
Airlines
Heart Aerospace Flies X1 Electric Demonstrator 2026
Electric aircraft developer Heart Aerospace has completed the first flight of its X1 battery-electric demonstrator, a milestone...
Safety
Frontier A321 Declares Emergency As Four Crew Fall Ill 2026
A Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland to Fort Lauderdale declared a medical emergency on August 13 after four of the five f...
Routes
Air Arabia Targets Q3 Launch For Saudi Venture 2026
Middle Eastern low-cost carrier Air Arabia expects to begin flying with its new Saudi Arabian venture in the third quarter of 2...
Airlines
ADS-B Explained: How Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Works
ADS-B explained for pilots: how Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast works, ADS-B Out vs In, 1090ES vs 978 UAT, TIS-B and...
Airlines
Ryanair 737 Engine Had Five Bird Strikes Before Failure 2026
The Ryanair Boeing 737-800 whose engine failed over Greece and sent debris through a passenger window had been involved in four...
Airlines
Air India A320neo Flight Controls Went Dark In Plunge 2026
The flight control systems of the Air India Airbus A320neo that suddenly plunged around 300 feet at cruising altitude briefly w...
Safety
United 737 Evacuated After Bullet Found Onboard 2026
All 184 passengers and crew aboard a United Airlines Boeing 737-900 were taken off the jet at the gate after a live bullet was ...
Airlines
Delta Locks Flyer Accounts After Wi-Fi Hack Flight 2026
Delta Air Lines has locked the SkyMiles frequent-flyer accounts of everyone who was aboard flight DL-591 from Las Vegas to Atla...
Airlines
Himalaya Airlines Adds Nepal-China Hangzhou Flights 2026
Nepal's Himalaya Airlines is expanding its footprint in mainland China, adding a new route between Kathmandu and Hangzhou that ...
Airlines
flyadeal Opens Riyadh To Mumbai Flights October 2026
Saudi low-cost carrier flyadeal is pushing into the Indian market, opening bookings for a new service between Riyadh and Mumbai...
Airlines
Scat Airlines Expands Shymkent-Bangkok Service 2026
Kazakhstan's Scat Airlines is expanding its reach into Thailand. During the northern winter 2026/27 season the carrier plans to...
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