Aviation World, News
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. In 2026, that...
Aviation World, News
Boeing’s monthly orders ledger usually reads like an accountant’s homework. On May 12 it read like a state secret. Four anonymous customers placed orders for 109 widebody and narrowbody Boeing aircraft. Twenty-eight 777Xs. Fifty-two 737 MAXes. Twenty-five...
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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 long-haul, twelve...
Military Aviation, News
The F-35 Lightning II was supposed to cost $4.1 million per aircraft per year to operate. That is the affordability target the US Air Force set for the F-35A, expressed in 2012 dollars. It was the number the Pentagon used to budget the largest single weapons programme...
Military Aviation, News
On the night of May 7, a Ukrainian drone wandered into Latvian airspace from Russia, lost contact under intense electronic warfare jamming, and slammed into an empty oil tank at a fuel depot near Rēzekne, about 40 kilometres from the Russian border. No casualties....
Military Aviation, News
Two weeks ago, almost nobody outside Silicon Valley defence circles had heard of Perennial Autonomy. The California startup, with barely three years of operating history, was a small dot on the counter-drone industry map. On May 18, the Pentagon handed it half a...
Military Aviation, News
Three years ago, “Group 1 unmanned aircraft” was Pentagon jargon for the little quadcopters you could buy at Best Buy. Today it is the most contested rung of the kill chain on Earth, and on May 18 the Department of War announced that Northrop Grumman — the...
Military Aviation, News
The Boeing-versus-Airbus tanker fight that consumed two decades of American procurement just had a quieter, more decisive European sequel. Italy signed on April 16 for six Airbus A330 MRTT tankers — €1.4 billion over ten years — and walked away from a long-standing...
Military Aviation, News
For the first time in the F-35B’s decade-long operational life (the variant entered service with the US Marine Corps in July 2015), an F-35B has set wheels down on a public road. Two of them, actually — Italian Air Force F-35Bs from the 32° Stormo, touching down...
Military Aviation, News
At 12:00 local time on May 19, an unidentified aircraft crossed into Estonian airspace from Russia. Fourteen minutes later it was a smoking crater south of the town of Põltsamaa. In between, two Romanian F-16s from Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania — already airborne on...
Military Aviation, News
For 81 days the Pentagon told the world Operation Epic Fury was the most successful air campaign since 2003. It probably was. But the bill has finally arrived, and a Congressional Research Service report quietly dropped on May 20 puts a number on it: at least 42...
Aviation World, News
For a year, every American who watched a near-miss video on social media or sat in a four-hour ground stop at Newark wondered the same thing: why is the country's air traffic control infrastructure held together with what looks like duct tape and divine...
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