Aviation and space news
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August 4, 2026
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has opened its largest Privium lounge to date, offering premium travellers a new space to work, relax or refresh before departing on Schengen flights. The new Privium…
August 3, 2026
IndiGo will deploy Airbus A321XLR on Mumbai to Amsterdam flights to retain AMS slots before A350 deliveries begin. The post IndiGo to Deploy Airbus A321XLR from Mumbai to Bicycle Capital of the…
Royal Schiphol Group reported a solid financial performance for the first half of 2026, even as geopolitical uncertainty weighed on the wider industry. The group, which operates Amsterdam Schiphol…
3 August 2026: As launch customer for the latest version of the PC-7 trainer aircraft, the Netherlands has ordered eight PC-7 MKX from Pilatus. A few days ago, the first of these new aircraft…
August 1, 2026
A nation of the stunted became a nation of the tall—and the transformation reveals what prosperity can do to the human body. The post In the mid-nineteenth century, the Dutch were among the shortest…
July 31, 2026
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Indian carrier suspends London route while switching Amsterdam service to A321XLRs. Indian carrier IndiGo will axe its London Heathrow service until its first Airbus A350-900s arrive, following the…
The European Commission has approved two Dutch State aid schemes worth €290 million to support the development and production of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), helping advance the EU’s Clean…
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The flag carrier of the Netherlands, KLM showed off its fully-painted first A350 in a few online posts, one in mid-June which announced the jet’s name, and another in mid-July, with a video showing…
Luanda-based TAAG Angola Airlines has launched its inaugural cargo service from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Lusaka. Zambia as it strives to increase its market share in Africa’s airfreight sector. The…
Video: 00:03:06 What did space have in store for Europe this July? The Artemis II crew visited ESA’s technical center in the Netherlands to meet the team behind Orion’s European Service Module…
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July 30, 2026
A drone carrying an unusual payload recently took to the sky above ESTEC, the European Space Agency's (ESA) technical centre in the Netherlands, and completed…
Netherlands-based e‑Smart Avia B.V., part of the e‑Smart Group, has announced the formation of ClearSky Airlines, described as Europe’s first The post ClearSky Airlines Plans Europe’s First…
Franco-Dutch airline group says it recaptured 85% of its extra fuel costs during the second quarter. Air France-KLM has reduced its capacity guidance for the year after high fuel prices drove a 70%…
A drone carrying an unusual payload recently took to the skies above ESTEC, the European Space Agency’s technical centre in the Netherlands, marking the first test flight of a student-developed…
Amina Helmi's passion for the Milky Way is clear as soon as one steps into her small office at the University of Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands.
July 29, 2026
Stakeholders from the two countries are looking at how electric aircraft could make the hop more sustainable. Industry experts, aircraft developers and government representatives discussed the…
July 28, 2026
Maastricht Aachen Airport has become the first airport in the Netherlands to introduce German Bionic’s AI-powered EXIA exoskeleton for daily cargo handling operations, aiming to improve worker…
Submissions are now being taken for potential speakers to join the line-up at the PTE World Conference 2027, taking place at RAI Amsterdam in the Netherlands on April 6, 7 and 8, 2027. Speakers are…
July 25, 2026
The platform has completed a series of tests of its electronic equipment in the Maxwell camera of the European Space Research and Technology Centre (Estec) in Noordwijk (Netherlands)..
July 24, 2026
The combat debut of the low-cost missile underscores Ukraine’s accelerating shift toward increasingly capable, mass-produced, long-range strike capabilities. The post Evidence Of Ukraine Using Dutch…
LATAM Airlines Brasil will continue operating the route between São Paulo/Guarulhos and Amsterdam during the European winter season, which begins at the end of October. Initially expected to end…
Namens KLM was Frédérique Pelger, Vice President Benelux, Dutch Caribbean & Suriname, aanwezig. Delta Air Lines werd vertegenwoordigd door Matt Long, Managing Director Europe & Africa, en Johan van…
July 20, 2026
Video: 00:19:14 The four Artemis II astronauts visited ESTEC, ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands, on 13 July as the first stop in a series of post-flight visits to the European teams that…
July 14, 2026
Yesterday, the four Artemis II astronauts visited ESA’s technical site in the Netherlands, where they met the team behind the European Service Module that powered their Orion spacecraft around the…
