Share this story Twelve billion dollars. Gone. The top ten eVTOL companies have collectively burned through $12 billion in investor capital — four times what was lost during the very light jet craze of the 2000s, and more than Boeing earned even in its most profitable...
Share this story The photograph looks fake. A short-fuselage Soviet-era twin-engine airliner — a Tupolev Tu-134, the workhorse of Aeroflot domestic routes for thirty years — is hanging in midair beneath a single helicopter. The Tu-134 weighs about 28 tonnes empty. It...
Share this story For three years, the world’s aviation press has watched Riyadh Air with the kind of attention usually reserved for a celebrity divorce. The airline has spent more on launch advertising than most mid-size carriers spend on a fleet. It has cut deals...
Share this story For decades, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International has been the busiest airport in the world. Over 100 million passengers a year. The single most important screening checkpoint in the United States. And throughout the recent government shutdown,...
Share this story The Boeing 777-9 was supposed to be the airliner that finally cemented Boeing’s widebody recovery after the 787 debacle and the 737 MAX disaster. It was going to be the world’s largest twin-engined jet, the most efficient on a per-seat basis, the only...
Share this story The air taxi revolution has a problem, and it’s not the aircraft. Joby Aviation has flown from JFK to Manhattan in seven minutes. Archer Aviation has been named the official eVTOL provider for Belgrade’s Expo 2027. FAA type certification...
Share this story Every aircraft has a logbook. And every logbook tells a story—usually about hydraulic leaks, faulty warning lights, and the slow entropy of flying machines held together by rivets, regulations, and sheer maintenance crew willpower. But hidden...
Share this story In late April 2026, a white, six-rotor aircraft lifted off from John F. Kennedy International Airport, tilted its propellers forward, and landed at the East 34th Street Heliport in Midtown Manhattan seven minutes later. No jet fuel. No noise...
Share this story For most of aviation history, the salary difference between a Delta captain and a United captain on the same kind of aircraft was a real number. Sometimes 5%. Sometimes 8%. Always enough to matter when a pilot was deciding which big airline to chase....
Share this story Cape Town, Las Vegas, JFK, Aruba, Jeddah, Kuwait, Costa Rica’s San José — and eleven European short-hops including Cologne, Grenoble, Izmir, Riga and Kalamata. British Airways is dropping nineteen routes from its summer 2026 timetable. Seven...
Share this story Sun Country Airlines never expected to become an airline-industry case study. Founded in 1982 by laid-off Braniff pilots, it spent thirty years quietly running ski charters out of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Las Vegas package tours, and the occasional...
Share this story Most African airlines have spent the last decade trying to survive. Ethiopian Airlines has spent the last decade trying to outgrow every other airline on its continent — and then a few off it. The Addis Ababa-based carrier flies more international...
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