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NEWS Jun 09, 2026 United Airlines Installs First Starlink Internet System on Boeing 777 Widebody Fleet United Airlines completes its first Starlink Wi-Fi prototype installation on a Boeing 777, marking a major step in its fleetwide connectivity rollout. Read More →
ROUTES Jun 09, 2026 Frontier Adds Two New Routes for Late Summer 2026, Returns to Oakland Bay Airport Frontier Airlines will launch two new routes in August 2026, including a return to Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport from Denver. Read More →
INFORMATIONAL Jun 08, 2026 Bombardier Global 8000 Breaks Montreal to Nice Speed Record, Debuts Elie Saab Cabin Design Bombardier's Global 8000 set a transatlantic speed record from Montreal to Nice and revealed a bespoke cabin designed with Elie Saab. Read More →
NEWS Jun 02, 2026 Whisper Aero Breaks Cover on JetFoil: The Ducted Fan That Could Reshape Light Aviation Whisper Aero unveils JetFoil, a quiet integrated ducted fan concept aimed at electric and hybrid aircraft. Here's what enthusiasts need to know. Read More →
ROUTES May 29, 2026 Avianca vs. jetBlue: The Battle for Spirit's Florida Throne As Spirit Airlines exits bankruptcy weaker than before, Avianca and jetBlue are positioning to claim its lucrative Florida-Latin America routes. Read More →
ROUTES May 29, 2026 Argentina Scales Back Special World Cup Flights as Fuel Costs Climb and Demand Falls Short Argentine carriers reduce special charter flights for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, citing high jet fuel prices and weaker than expected ticket demand. 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 →
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 20, 2026 Air France Flight Turned Away From U.S. Airspace and Diverted to Canada Over Suspected Ebola-Linked Passenger An Air France Boeing 777-200 operating a scheduled service from Paris to Detroit has been denied entry to U.S. airspace and forced to divert to Montreal, in what is emerging as a direct consequence of sweeping new American travel restrictions linked to a deadly Ebola outbreak in Central and East Africa. Read More →
NEWS May 19, 2026 Three of Europe's Biggest Airlines Have Extended Their Middle East Suspensions, and the Restart Dates Are Further Away Than Many Passengers Hoped Three of Europe's largest airline groups have simultaneously extended their Middle East flight suspensions, with British Airways pushing its restart further into summer, the Lufthansa Group holding off a return to Dubai until mid-September, and Air France emerging as the most optimistic of the three with planned resumptions beginning as early as late May. Read More →