Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Lufthansa Group second quarter revenue rose 8% to €11.1 billion, but Adjusted EBIT fell to €383 million from €870 million as fuel costs ran approximately €750 million above the prior year and strikes added at least €150 million. Lufthansa Cargo and Lufthansa Technik both improved, and full-year guidance has been converted from a point ambition […]
The founding-era documents carried across the United States by the Freedom Plane are on display at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry until 16 August, concluding a tour spanning eight states in four months — and ending in the city where Boeing was founded 110 years ago. A TOUR THAT ENDS WHERE THE COMPANY STARTED
Bombardier is displaying the Challenger 3500 at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition in São Paulo from 4 to 6 August, as part of a regional tour taking the super-midsize jet to ten cities across Mexico, the Caribbean, and South and Central America. A SHOW APPEARANCE POSITIONED WITHIN A WIDER REGIONAL CAMPAIGN
Avolon has reported second quarter net income of US$209 million, up 45% year-on-year, taking trailing twelve-month net income to US$702 million — already ahead of the US$591 million recorded for the whole of 2025. Lease revenue and operating cashflow both declined sequentially from the first quarter as the lessor sold 30 aircraft against 21 acquisitions,
Egypt’s National Air Navigation Services Company has signed a contract with DFS Aviation Services, becoming a customer of the DAS A² Academy in Langen, Germany. The programme will train approximately 80 Egyptian air traffic management professionals in Controller–Pilot Data Link Communications, SID/STAR familiarisation and air navigation procedure design. AGREEMENT SIGNED IN CAIRO WITH MINISTRY REPRESENTATION
The Cessna Citation CJ3 Gen3 prototype has completed a first flight of nearly two hours from Wichita, reaching 41,000 feet and 278 knots indicated. With the milestone, all three next-generation Citation light jets — the CJ4 Gen3, CJ3 Gen3 and M2 Gen3 — are now in flight testing, each bringing Garmin Emergency Autoland to the
Aviation advisory firm ALTEA has published a checklist for business aircraft owners choosing a Fixed Base Operator, arguing that rising costs, staffing pressure and a series of recent ground incidents make operational quality, pricing transparency and security more consequential than the visible standard of the terminal facility. SURFACE COMPARISON IS NO LONGER SUFFICIENT ALTEA,
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Syensqo has secured a new long-term supply agreement with Airbus covering prepregs, RTM resins, adhesives and primers across the manufacturer’s commercial aircraft, defence and space, and helicopter platforms — locking in materials supply for a customer executing one of the steepest production ramp-ups in commercial aerospace history, and doing so for the one Syensqo division
Leonardo has announced two artificial intelligence initiatives in parallel: its US-listed subsidiary Leonardo DRS has agreed to acquire mission software specialist Raft for $450 million in cash, while the parent group has launched Digital Horizon, a Microsoft 365 and Copilot deployment reaching approximately 50,000 employees — one acquiring AI capability to sell outward, the other
Boeing delivered 171 commercial aircraft in the second quarter, up 14% year-on-year and its highest quarterly total since 2018, while beginning the transition to a 47-per-month 737 production rate and activating low-rate initial production on the 737 North Line. Certification flight testing has been completed on the 737-7 and 737-10, and the 777X has entered
