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August 18, 2026

USS George Washington en route to relieve USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East, which leaves no carriers in the Pacific. The post Where Are The Aircraft Carriers?: August 17, 2026 appeared first…

SWISS will replace two A220-300s with A320neos in Geneva for summer 2027, adding 24% more seats on the London-Heathrow route and seeking to improve unit profitability at its base in…
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SWISS will replace two A220-300s with A320neos at Geneva for the summer 2027 season, adding 24% more seats on the London Heathrow route as it seeks to improve unit profitability at its Cointrin base.

VH-NPU “Meekatharra” is the second ex-Qantas F100 to be donated to HARS, following the arrival of VH-NHO at its Parkes museum earlier this year. QantasLink is phasing out its ageing F100 fleet, to…

Eve Air Mobility and Thai aviation and engineering company RV Connex have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop advanced air mobility in Thailand. At the center…

Air Europa will connect Madrid and Düsseldorf with two daily frequencies starting November 30, 2026, adding more than 270,000 annual seats and strengthening its presence in Germany against Eurowings…

Air Europa will connect Madrid and Düsseldorf with two daily frequencies from 30 November 2026, adding more than 270,000 annual seats and strengthening its presence in Germany against…

The legacy carrier signed a 20-year lease for six additional gates at the airport.

August 17, 2026

Safe drone operations rely on everyone involved, not just an organisation's chief remote pilot (CRP). At HoverUAV, senior remote pilot (SRP) Georgia Wall uses her experience and qualifications to…

Loud gate accusations and a claimed false custody shout left a Portland family humiliated before departure.

Emirates is buying retired A380s not to fly them but to take them apart. The parts inside are worth more than the aircraft itself.

Italy: phishing and new ransomware claims. A phishing campaign has been identified using a website that faithfully replicates the graphics of InPost, the…

Google, an Alphabet subsidiary, agreed to buy internal business data from Spirit Airlines for US$10 million…

Ukrainian intelligence reportedly holds information about Moscow forming battalions with Ukrainian prisoners of war, according to Andriy Pasternak, head…
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In early June, the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reportedly issued an internal seven-page document raising the alert level – brought…

US company Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has just announced that its naval division, Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), has successfully completed acceptance sea trials for the USS John…

The search giant’s winning bid of $10 million gives it access to a trove of emails, financial records and more. Google will acquire a massive cache of Spirit Airlines’ business records after its $10…

Ocean Software has been selected by SkyAlyne to provide Resource Management and Scheduling (RM&S) capability as part of the training system that supports the…

STARLUX completes its striking AIRSORAYAMA pair as the A350-1000 becomes central to its long-haul growth strategy.

The honeymoon ended tragically for a newly married couple from Britain. They died along with their pilot during a sightseeing flight over Sifnos.

Spain has launched an ambitious program to replace ground platforms, some dating from the 1970s, seeking maximum commonality. The 8x8 Dragón vehicle shares 13…

Textron Aviation delivers 500th Cessna Citation CJ4 and prepares new generation of the executive jet
Textron Aviation reached a milestone in executive aviation with the delivery of the 500th Cessna Citation CJ4. The aircraft, a Citation CJ4 Gen2, was delivered to a customer in the Philippines…

The renewal of the SAE AS9100D and SAE AS9110C certifications by Chile’s National Aeronautics Company (ENAER) may seem, at first glance, purely a technical…

Small comforts arrive on long haul coach with new branded pouches, sleep masks and earplugs for overnight journeys.

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) announced this Monday a strategic restructuring of the fleet assigned to its base…

WestJet has announced the most extensive winter schedule in its history to Latin America and the Caribbean, increasing…

Ricardo Guerra, Exercise Physiologist with a Master's in Sports Physiology from Liverpool John Moores University. Spanish version: The FIFA physiological war against Argentina…

Milan looks ahead, even questioning the ‘city-state’ model, but the problems affecting the metropolis now concern the whole…

Latest aircraft went to a customer in the Philippines as Cessna prepares to certify the CJ4 Gen3 with a revised avionics package