Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Ten new long-haul routes and numerous frequency increases span the group’s seven airlines, with new nonstop U.S. connections from Frankfurt and Munich bookable from 20 October. Lufthansa Group said its Summer 2027 flight schedule, bookable from 20 October 2026, represents its most extensive network expansion since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, adding […]
The new platform lets border authorities assess air and sea travellers before they reach the country, aiming to strengthen security while easing legitimate crossings. El Salvador’s border authorities can now assess air and sea travellers before they enter or leave the country, SITA said, after the country’s General Directorate of Migration and Foreigners (DGME), part
The new application gives public safety agencies and enterprise drone programmes a shared view of nearby UAS activity without requiring any change to existing aircraft or flight software. ANRA Technologies, a provider of digital airspace and mission management solutions, on 14 October 2026 introduced ANRA VISTA, short for Visual Interface for Shared Traffic Awareness, a
The prepaid order is Gogo’s largest single MRO order this year, reflecting anticipated demand for the company’s LEO-powered connectivity system. Gogo (NASDAQ: GOGO) said on 13 October 2026 that Duncan Aviation, the world’s largest privately-owned business jet service provider, has placed a prepaid order for 40 Gogo Galileo HDX systems, marking Gogo’s largest single MRO
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A Learjet 45 air ambulance carried a patient, family member and medical crew between France and Lebanon, with departure timed around post-surgical medical clearance. CharterDesk has coordinated an air ambulance flight carrying a patient from Nîmes, France, to Beirut, Lebanon, following surgery. The operation required close contact between the patient’s hospital doctor and the doctor
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The uncrewed fighter has flown alongside crewed F-35 and F-15E jets as the US Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme accelerates toward production. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) delivered a new FQ-42 Vengeance to Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, on 18 September, where it will continue test and evaluation operations with the US Air Force’s
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The FAA has announced 238 Airport Improvement Program grants worth nearly $615 million across 42 states and two territories. Analysis of the agency’s published grant tables shows the award is the fifth of six announcements this fiscal year, taking the FY2026 programme past $2.6 billion – and that 43 per cent of the grants are
Boeing forecasts that commercial aviation will need 674,000 new pilots over the next two decades, yet competition for entry-level First Officer positions remains intense. Industry figures interviewed by BAA Training argue the contradiction is not real: the shortage is a twenty-year projection, while today’s hiring is shaped by delayed aircraft deliveries, parked capacity and a
An analysis by Texas Christian University’s Center for Supply Chain Innovation finds that American Airlines’ hub at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport supports around $70 billion in annual economic output and an estimated 350,000 jobs across North Texas, and identifies its connectivity as a factor in the region’s corporate headquarters growth. A HUB LARGER THAN
A Japanese Ministry of Defense evaluation document setting out a ¥5 billion research programme into stand-in jamming technology gives an unusually direct explanation of why the work must be done in-house: electronic warfare capability is highly classified, no information is disclosed from overseas, and the equipment has no civilian market. There is, in the ministry’s
