Amazon’s Delivery Drones Just Left the US
In a back garden in Darlington, a 40-kilo aircraft drops out of the County Durham sky, hovers about four metres up, releases a shoebox-sized parcel onto the lawn, and climbs away again. No van. No driver. No knock on the door. Just a tube of mascara, or a phone cable,...
The $9 Billion Jet That Never Flew a Passenger
It flew. That is the strangest, most expensive part of the whole story. The Mitsubishi SpaceJet was not a paper aeroplane or a CGI fantasy that died on a designer’s screen. It rolled out, it taxied, it rotated off the runway at Nagoya, and it climbed into a...
Philippine Airlines Puts Its A350-1000 on the Manila–Toronto Marathon
Philippine Airlines has just made one of the world’s longest commercial hops a little fresher. As of 5 June 2026, the flag carrier is flying its brand-new Airbus A350-1000 nonstop between Manila and Toronto — a roughly 13,200 km marathon that now becomes...
Qatar Airways Is Coming Back to Philadelphia
Qatar Airways is heading back to the City of Brotherly Love. The Gulf carrier confirmed in June 2026 that it will relaunch daily nonstop service between its Doha hub and Philadelphia on 1 August 2026 — reclaiming a US East Coast gateway it abandoned in 2023, and...
Singapore Airlines Eyes 50 New Widebody Jets
When Singapore Airlines goes shopping for aircraft, the rest of the industry leans in to watch. The Changi-based carrier has spent decades building a reputation as a benchmark for premium long-haul flying, and the jets it chooses tend to become the jets everyone else...
Where Asia’s Jets Will Go to Be Fixed
When an airliner needs more than a routine turnaround — one of the deep, weeks-long teardowns that strip it to the structure, inspect everything and put it back together — it doesn’t just taxi to a gate. It disappears into an MRO: a maintenance, repair and overhaul...
Sydney’s New Airport Never Closes
For as long as most Sydneysiders can remember, the city’s air traffic has run into a wall every night. Kingsford Smith Airport — Sydney’s only major gateway — shuts to most aircraft between 11pm and 6am under a hard legal curfew. After dark, one of the busiest...
Vietnam Built a Lotus Mega-Airport in Five Years
Rise above the red earth east of Ho Chi Minh City and a vast lotus flower seems to bloom out of the construction dust. It is not a sculpture. It is the roof of Long Thanh International Airport — Vietnam’s roughly US$16 billion bet on becoming one of Southeast Asia’s...
AirAsia X Returns to London After 14 Years
Fourteen years ago, AirAsia X tried to do something that sober aviation economists said couldn’t be done: fly a budget airline halfway around the planet. It ran low-cost long-haul flights from Kuala Lumpur to London and Paris — and in 2012, bruised by fuel bills and...
The Hidden Engine in Your Airliner’s Tail
You step onto a parked airliner and everything just works. The cabin lights are on, the air is cool, screens are glowing — and yet the two great engines on the wings are stone-cold silent. Somewhere behind you, a faint high-pitched whine is the only clue to what...
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