Fuel Tankering Explained: Why Airlines Carry Fuel They Don’t Need
Share this story Most passengers assume an airliner fills up before every flight with just enough fuel for the trip plus reserves. Very often, that is not what happens. On a large share of short and medium-haul flights, airlines deliberately load extra fuel at the...
Hollywood Burbank Airport Opens Its $1.3 Billion Terminal
Share this story At 07:00 on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, the first flight left Hollywood Burbank Airport’s brand-new passenger terminal. The $1.3 billion building, on the opposite side of the airfield from the old one, replaces a complex whose original buildings...
FAA Grounds the Elixir Trainer After a Fatal Flap Failure in France
Share this story The FAA has grounded the Elixir, the French two-seat trainer that only won its US type certificate last year. An emergency airworthiness directive published in the Federal Register on 13 October 2026, effective the next day, bars every Elixir in the...
Piper Malibu Mirage Crash Near Wisconsin Dells Kills Six
Share this story Six people, five adults and a child, died on Tuesday night, 13 October 2026, when a Piper PA-46-350P Malibu Mirage crashed in the Town of Dellona, west of Wisconsin Dells. The Sauk County Sheriff’s Office said everyone aboard the six-seat...
Frankfurt Airport Jet Fuel Shortage: Lufthansa Orders Tankering
Share this story Germany’s busiest airport is running short of the one thing every departure needs. Lufthansa has told its crews to bring extra jet fuel into Frankfurt, because supplies at the airport are tight. The measure, first reported by the German tabloid...
Lufthansa Wins TAP Air Portugal: €1.2 Billion for a 49.9% Stake
Share this story Lufthansa has won TAP Air Portugal. After a meeting of the Council of Ministers in Lisbon on Wednesday, 14 October, Prime Minister Luís Montenegro announced that the government had chosen the German group over Air France-KLM to buy 49.9% of the...
SPECTRA and Praetorian: Europe’s Fighter Self-Protection Suites
Share this story Look at a F-16 rigged for a contested mission and you can count the self-protection on your fingers, because most of it is bolted on. A jamming pod on a station that could have carried a weapon. A dispenser modification. A decoy on a wire. Each box...
Checked Baggage: What the FAA and IATA Allow in the Hold
Share this story Everyone knows the cabin rules. Liquids in a bag, laptop out of the case, no knives. The hold feels like the forgiving place, the hole in the aeroplane where the awkward things go once the security theatre is over. It is the opposite. For an entire...
Austrian Airlines Retires Boeing 767 OE-LAZ: Two 767s Left After 38 Years
Share this story On Tuesday, 13 October 2026, in the hangars of Austrian Airlines’ technical base in Vienna, Boeing 767-300ER OE-LAZ was officially taken out of service. It is the first of the airline’s last three 767s to go, and the beginning of the end...
British Airways BA2660: A321 Turns Back to Gatwick With a Cracked Window
Share this story About an hour after leaving London Gatwick on Tuesday morning, somewhere past Brittany, the crew of British Airways flight BA2660 to Faro turned their Airbus A321 around. A passenger window on the right-hand side of the cabin, near row 3, had been...
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