Great Circle Routes: Why Pacific Flights Curve North Past Alaska
Share this story Open a flight tracker halfway through a Los Angeles to Tokyo flight and the aircraft is somewhere it has no business being. Not out in the middle of the blue, where the straight line on the screen says it should be, but up near the top of the map, off...
Airplane Oxygen Masks: How Long They Last and Why They Get Hot
Share this story The panel above your head snaps open and four yellow cups drop on clear plastic tubes. Somewhere in the cabin a bag rustles. Within a minute or two, passengers start to notice a smell — hot metal, a hint of something scorched, the sort of smell...
Delta Returns to Monterey: New LAX and Salt Lake Routes
Share this story Delta has not flown to Monterey since 2008. From 19 December it will fly there twice a day from Los Angeles and once a day from Salt Lake City. The airline announced three new domestic routes on Friday, two of them serving a small coastal California...
Skytrax 2026: Singapore Airlines Takes a Sixth World’s Best
Share this story On Friday evening at the Langham Hotel in London, Singapore Airlines was named the World’s Best Airline for the sixth time in the history of the Skytrax World Airline Awards. Qatar Airways, last year’s winner and a nine-time holder of the...
Embraer Praetor 600E: Flexjet Takes the First Smart Window Jet
Share this story Business jets do not usually change much. A new variant means a bit more range, a quieter cabin, a fresh avionics load. The aeroplane that Flexjet accepted on 18 September 2026 has something genuinely new in it: a 42-inch curved 4K OLED screen built...
National Championship Air Races: The Unlimiteds Return at Roswell
Share this story Somewhere over the New Mexico desert this afternoon, a heavily modified Second World War fighter will round a fifty-foot pylon at something north of 450 mph, about as close to the ground as a sensible person parks a car. Today is the closing day of...
Joby Flies a Cessna Caravan 3,199 Miles With Zero Pilot Input
Share this story A single-engine turboprop flew from California to the Atlantic this month, taxied itself, took itself off, found its own way around thunderstorms, slotted into one of the busiest general aviation airports in America without ever having been there, and...
Navigators and Flight Engineers: How Cockpits Went From Five to Two
Share this story Somewhere over Russia today, a man is lying on his stomach in the nose of a jet transport, looking straight down at the ground through a wall of flat glass panes, with nothing between him and the landscape but a few millimetres of window. He is a...
Aeroflot Orders 90 More MC-21s Before the First One Enters Service
Share this story On Thursday in Moscow, Aeroflot signed for 90 more Yakovlev MC-21-310s. That takes the national carrier’s commitment to 108 aircraft, with deliveries running from 2029 to 2032, plus simulators, crew training and 22 years of support. The number of...
Etihad’s Last Stored A380 Flies Home After Six Years at Tarbes
Share this story At half past nine on Thursday morning, an Airbus A380 that had not moved under its own power in nearly six years lined up at Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées and went to Abu Dhabi. A6-APB was the last one. When it re-enters commercial service,...
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