Share this story On the evening of 13 October 2026, a damaged fibre-optic cable near Houston caused delays at George Bush Intercontinental. The FAA stopped flights bound for the airport from taking off between about 18:30 and 20:00 local time, and the problem rippled...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Share this story Boeing delivered 161 commercial aircraft in the third quarter of 2026, the company announced on 13 October. That is one more than in the same quarter a year earlier, which sounds unexciting until you look at what is inside the number: the most 737 MAX...
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