Aviation World
The superjumbo is not dead. It is, in fact, getting a rather glamorous facelift. On April 23, Lufthansa’s first retrofitted Airbus A380 took off from Munich bound for Los Angeles, carrying 68 passengers in an entirely redesigned business class cabin. The...
Aviation World, News
A narrowbody aircraft has no business offering lie-flat beds across the Atlantic. And yet here it is. On April 24, Air Canada took delivery of its first Airbus A321XLR in Hamburg — and with it, a cabin configuration that would have seemed absurd five years ago: 14...
Military Aviation, News
Emmanuel Macron arrived in Athens on April 24 with a proposal he clearly thought was elegant: hand over your Mirage 2000 fleet for Ukraine, and France will give you a preferential deal on new Rafales. A swap of old for new, West for East, legacy iron for cutting-edge...
Military Aviation, News
Two Russian supersonic bombers, ten escort fighters, and the combined air forces of six NATO nations. For four hours over the Baltic Sea on April 20, one of the largest airspace confrontations since the Cold War played out in real time. NATO tracked two Tupolev...
Military Aviation, News
Emmanuel Macron arrives in Athens today with a proposal that reads like a Cold War arms bazaar: give us all 43 of your Mirage 2000 fighters, and we will sell you Rafales at a discount. The Mirages? They are going to Ukraine. The deal, first reported by Le Parisien,...
Military Aviation, News
French Rafale fighters armed with nuclear-capable ASMP cruise missiles will soon rehearse strikes on targets near St. Petersburg. The exercise partner is Poland. The theatre is the Baltic Sea. And the message is aimed squarely at Moscow. According to the Polish news...
News
El Al is stretching its wings to the bottom of the world. Israel’s flag carrier has announced its longest-ever scheduled route: a 7,604-mile nonstop from Tel Aviv to Buenos Aires, operated by Boeing 787 Dreamliners with three classes of service. At 16.5 hours...
News
The war in Iran is now grounding flights in Frankfurt. Lufthansa Group announced on April 21 that it will cancel 20,000 short-haul flights through October 2026, saving 40,000 metric tonnes of jet fuel as the Iran conflict sends energy prices into territory not seen...
Military Aviation, News
For the first time since the Imperial Japanese Navy’s carriers were sent to the bottom of the Pacific, Japan has a warship designed to launch fixed-wing combat aircraft. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force released photographs on April 20 showing JS Izumo with...
Aviation World, News
Friedrichshafen opens its doors today. And this time, it is bigger than anyone expected. The 32nd edition of AERO — Europe’s premier general aviation trade show — launches on April 22 with 820 exhibitors from more than 50 countries, exhibitor bookings running 25...
Military Aviation, News
Iraq is about to buy French. After years of relying almost exclusively on American fighter jets, Baghdad is in the final stages of negotiations with Paris for 14 Dassault Rafale F4 fighters — the latest and most capable variant of France’s omnirole combat...
Military Aviation, News
France has just announced the largest peacetime increase in military spending in its modern history. An additional €36 billion — approximately $42 billion — will flow into the armed forces between 2026 and 2030, targeting the three domains where the war in the Middle...
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