Tag: airbus
ROUTES May 29, 2026 JetBlue Plans New Fort Lauderdale to Caracas Route: What Travelers Should Know JetBlue plans to launch service between Fort Lauderdale and Caracas, pending government approvals. Here's what travelers need to know about the new route. Read More →
NEWS May 28, 2026 Qantas Unveils Stunning Great Barrier Reef Livery on Their Newest A321XLR Qantas has revealed a Great Barrier Reef-themed Airbus A321XLR named Coral Sea, marking the airline's latest tribute to an Australian natural landmark. Read More →
NEWS May 26, 2026 American Airlines Has Finally Chosen Starlink for Its Narrowbody Fleet American Airlines has ended months of deliberation and confirmed SpaceX's Starlink as its next-generation in-flight Wi-Fi provider, committing to install the low Earth orbit satellite system across more than 500 narrowbody aircraft beginning in the first quarter of 2027. Read More →
NEWS May 26, 2026 easyJet and Amsterdam Schiphol Have Switched Off Aircraft Engines During Taxiing, and the Fuel Savings Are Already Measurable Every time a commercial aircraft taxis to the runway with its main engines running, it burns through thousands of pounds of jet fuel before it has carried a single passenger a single metre into the sky. At Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, one of Europe's busiest and most spread-out airports, that invisible cost has long accounted for a significant share of each flight's total emissions. As of today, easyJet and Schiphol have taken a concrete step to address it. Read More →
ROUTES May 22, 2026 Air Canada Is About to Fly Directly From Montreal to Mallorca for the First Time Air Canada is weeks away from launching a route that no Canadian carrier has ever flown before, a nonstop service between Montréal-Trudeau International Airport and Palma de Mallorca Airport on the sun-soaked Spanish island in the western Mediterranean. Read More →
NEWS May 21, 2026 After 17 Years and Two Trials, a Paris Court Has Finally Found Airbus and Air France Guilty of Killing 228 People Over the Atlantic A Paris appeals court has today delivered one of the most consequential verdicts in the history of commercial aviation, finding both Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter over the June 2009 crash of Air France Flight AF447; a disaster that killed all 228 people on board and remains the worst aviation accident in French history. Read More →
NEWS May 20, 2026 The World's Densest Superjumbo Just Got a Luxury Makeover and Emirates Has Transformed Its Most Packed A380 Forever Emirates has quietly closed the chapter on one of commercial aviation's most striking oddities, a 615-seat configuration of the Airbus A380 that put sheer volume above almost everything else, and replaced it with the airline's most premium-heavy superjumbo yet. Read More →
NEWS May 08, 2026 Emirates Has Painted the UAE Flag Across an Entire A380 and It Has Already Flown to New York and Brisbane Emirates has unveiled one of the most visually striking special liveries in its 41-year history, a bold, full-fuselage rendering of the UAE national flag across one of its iconic Airbus A380 superjumbos. Read More →
ROUTES May 07, 2026 Breeze Airways Has Quietly Dropped 9 Routes but on Its Fifth Birthday It Is Adding Even More Five years after its first passenger flight departed in May 2021, Breeze Airways is undergoing its most significant network restructuring to date, withdrawing from nine routes. Read More →
ROUTES May 07, 2026 Emirates Delivered Its Most Profitable Year in History While the Iran War Was Shutting Down Its Own Airport Emirates has delivered the most remarkable set of airline financial results in recent memory, posting record pre-tax profits of $6.2 billion for the financial year ending March 31, 2026, even though the final month of that year included the most catastrophic disruption to Gulf aviation since the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More →