Wizz Air Plants Its Flag in Sicily
Share this story Sicily just became the latest front in Europe’s low-cost air war. On August 1, 2026, Wizz Air based its first aircraft at Palermo’s Falcone Borsellino Airport, and two days later threw a launch party with the mayor and a planeload of...
Heathrow Can Bill You for a Runway It Hasn’t Built
Share this story Heathrow has not laid a single metre of new runway. It has not even secured permission to build one. And yet, as of a regulator’s ruling on July 29, 2026, passengers are now on the hook for the bill.The UK Civil Aviation Authority has cleared...
Starlux Reaches Europe for the First Time
Share this story Just after midnight on August 1, 2026, an Airbus A350-900 lifted off from Taipei and pointed its nose at Central Europe. In the left-hand seat sat K.W. Chang — not a rostered captain, but the chairman of the airline, flying his own inaugural....
IndiGo and Norse Rip Up Their 787 Deal
Share this story For a few months, the world’s cheapest big airline flew the world’s trendiest long-haul jet. It did not last. IndiGo — India’s low-cost giant, and the largest airline in the country by a country mile — is tearing up its damp-lease deal...
The FedEx Crew Who Rolled a DC-10 to Survive
Share this story Twenty minutes out of Memphis, First Officer Jim Tucker heard a sound he had never heard on an aeroplane: a metallic ring, again and again. It was a claw hammer coming down on the skull of his flight engineer. In the next few seconds a man would try...
Two Firefighting Helicopters Collide West of Athens
Share this story They had done it hundreds of times. Dip the snorkel, scoop a tonne of water, climb, run in low over the burning ridge, release, and turn back for more. On Sunday afternoon, over a wind-whipped fire front west of Athens, two firefighting helicopters...
WestJet Grounds Its Entire Mainline Fleet
Share this story Just after midnight on Sunday, the busiest travel weekend of the Canadian summer fell silent. Roughly 150 WestJet aircraft that should have been shuttling holidaymakers between Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and a long list of sun destinations stayed...
The Atlantic Crossing Nobody Remembers
Share this story Everyone remembers Charles Lindbergh. Almost nobody remembers the three men who, a year later, flew the Atlantic the hard way — against the wind, from Europe to America — and nearly died doing it. Their aircraft was called the Bremen, and...
A Rare P-51 Mustang Flies Again
Share this story In August 1944, a young Minnesotan named Ken Dahlberg shot down three German aircraft in a single swirling dogfight, took a bullet through his oil system, and bailed out into the clouds over occupied France. Sheltered by the Resistance and — by...
The Airliner You Boarded Inside the Wing
Share this story Imagine buying an airline ticket and being shown not to a seat in the fuselage, but into the wing itself — a little cabin built into the leading edge, with a big curved window giving you the pilot’s own view of the world rushing toward...
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