Air Transat Slashes Summer Flights as Fuel Crisis Bites
The war in Iran is reaching Canadian travellers at the departure gate. Air Transat, Canada’s leisure airline of choice for sun-seekers headed to Europe and the Caribbean, has announced a six percent capacity reduction for summer 2026 — cancelling 129 flights...
Norway Tests a Plane That Takes Off in 50 Metres
Fifty metres. That is the length of a football pitch. That is how much runway the Electra EL9 needs to get nine passengers off the ground. On April 21, Bristow Group, Electra, Avinor, and the Norwegian Civil Aviation Authority signed a contract to test this...
SUN ‘n FUN 2026: Lakeland Roars with Raptors and Thunderbirds
For six days in April, the sky above Lakeland Linder International Airport belonged to the jets. SUN ‘n FUN 2026 — the aerospace expo that has grown from a fly-in campout to America’s second-largest aviation gathering — drew an estimated 200,000 visitors...
Dassault’s Falcon 10X Rolls Out for First Flight
On a bright morning at Bordeaux-Mérignac, the doors of Dassault Aviation’s final assembly hall rolled open to reveal something the business aviation world has been waiting five years to see. The Falcon 10X — the widest-cabin business jet ever designed by a...
Korean Air Orders 103 Boeings in $36 Billion Bet
Korean Air just placed the largest widebody order any Asian carrier has ever given Boeing. One hundred and three aircraft. Thirty-six billion dollars at list prices. Deliveries stretching from 2026 to 2039. This is not a fleet refresh — it is a complete transformation...
Lufthansa’s A380 Gets a Luxury Rebirth
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...
Missiles, Drones, Jamming: ICAO Warns Civilian Skies Are Under Threat
The head of the United Nations aviation agency stood before a room of airline executives, intelligence analysts, and government officials in Malta and said what many of them already feared: the skies are no longer safe in the way the industry has assumed for decades....
Air Canada’s A321XLR Brings Lie-Flat Seats to Single-Aisle Transatlantic
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...
The Man Who Tied His Airship to a Lamppost and Went to Dinner at Maxim’s
On the morning of October 19, 1901, a small, open gondola suspended beneath a cigar-shaped hydrogen balloon rounded the Eiffel Tower at low altitude, straightened out over the Seine, and docked at the Saint-Cloud aerodrome in a time of 29 minutes and 30 seconds. The...
Wake Turbulence: The Invisible Danger Behind Every Landing
You can’t see it. You can’t hear it. Your instruments won’t warn you. But behind every aircraft that has ever flown, a pair of invisible horizontal tornadoes spin off the wingtips at speeds that can exceed 300 feet per second. If you fly through them...
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