Norse Atlantic Draws Strong Takeover Interest
Share this story There is a particular kind of turbulence that never shows on the weather radar, and Norse Atlantic Airways flew straight into it this month. The Norwegian long-haul low-cost carrier used its second-quarter results, published on 20 August 2026, to...
Aer Lingus Cuts Five US Routes
Share this story Aer Lingus began 2026 promising its largest-ever transatlantic schedule. It will end the year having quietly dismantled five of its US routes, a retreat that says as much about the economics of the North Atlantic as it does about one Irish carrier....
Sweden’s Flying Barrel Went to War for the UN
Share this story It looked like a beer barrel with wings, and the Swedes said so themselves — they called it Flygande Tunnan, the “Flying Barrel.” But behind that comical shape hid a serious pioneer: the first swept-wing fighter to enter squadron...
NATO Massed Its Jets Right Next to Kaliningrad
Share this story On Tuesday, 18 August 2026, a very unusual crowd gathered in the sky over northern Poland and the Baltic — and every serious flight-tracker in Europe stopped to watch. In a large, U.S.-led NATO air exercise, a dense package of allied aircraft...
A Budget Jet to Frankfurt: Air Arabia Goes Daily
Share this story The Gulf’s low-cost giant is about to do something low-cost carriers are not supposed to do: fly a narrowbody, non-stop, five and a half hours to the heart of Europe — every single day. On 19 August 2026, Air Arabia announced a new daily...
Lufthansa Just Switched On Starlink at 33,000 Feet
Share this story At 10,000 metres somewhere between Frankfurt and Rome, Jens Ritter reached up and switched on the internet. The gesture, aboard an Airbus A320neo named “November Mike,” marked the first Lufthansa passenger flight flying with Wi-Fi powered...
France’s Arms Ledger Stays at Altitude: €21 Billion, and the Rafale Still Leads
Share this story The number barely moved, and that is precisely the point. France booked €21.24 billion in new arms-export orders in 2025, its Ministry of the Armed Forces told Parliament in the annual report published on 13 August. A shade below 2024’s...
Egypt Joins the KAAN, and a New Fifth-Gen Axis Takes Shape
Share this story There is a particular elegance to watching a country refuse to choose sides. For half a century Egypt bought its wings where the politics of the moment allowed, Soviet MiGs, then American Falcons, then French Rafales, always a client, never a builder....
Rafale for Ukraine: France Firms Up Its Fighter Pledge
Share this story There is a quiet satisfaction, for anyone raised on the sight of the delta-winged chasse française, in watching the Rafale finally take its place in the fight it was arguably designed for. France’s most senior voices are no longer...
China’s Long Hunt for the West’s Aerospace Secrets
Share this story In December 2025, a man in a minivan with Massachusetts plates parked near the fence line at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri and pointed a camera at the B-2 Spirit stealth bombers on the ramp. He had been warned off once already. He came back....
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