Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Royal Air Maroc Cargo’s Casablanca–Los Angeles service, launched on 7 June 2026 with three weekly Boeing 787 flights, makes it the only African carrier connecting the continent directly with the American West Coast, and combined with its Casablanca–Beijing route, completes a trade corridor running Los Angeles to Beijing through Morocco. TWO ROUTES THAT BECOME A […]
Textron Aviation has announced the 500th delivery of a Cessna Citation CJ4 series business jet, a Gen2 aircraft going to a customer based in the Philippines. The CJ4 Gen3 is expected to achieve FAA certification this year, having completed more than 880 flight test hours across two test articles. FIVE HUNDRED AIRCRAFT IN THE LARGEST
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
Reliance Industries and Rolls-Royce have announced a strategic intent to partner on the design, development, manufacture and delivery of an indigenous combat engine for India’s Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft programme, and will explore forming a dedicated Aerospace Gas Turbine Complex as a centre of excellence for propulsion technology in India. AN INTENT, NOT YET A
From one minute past midnight on 17 August, all scheduled commercial services serving the city of Visakhapatnam transferred from the civil enclave at the INS Dega naval air station to the new Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport at Bhogapuram. Air India has moved its 14 weekly Delhi services, and the airport code moved with the
Boeing, WZL-1 and WCBKT have signed offset implementation agreements establishing in-country maintenance, repair and overhaul capability for Poland’s 96 AH-64E Apache helicopters. Poland is the nineteenth nation to operate the type and will become the largest operator after the United States. NINETY-SIX AIRCRAFT AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUSTAIN THEM Wojskowe Zakłady Lotnicze Nr 1
Joby Aviation has agreed to acquire Dayton-based Resonant Sciences for approximately $500 million, adding a business with more than $100 million in trailing revenue, roughly 40 per cent annual growth and positive EBITDA. Resonant will become Joby’s dedicated defence unit, allowing the commercial organisation to stay focused on certifying its air taxi. BUYING REVENUE, CLEARANCES
Rolls-Royce has selected Melbourne-based Marand Precision Engineering, following a competitive international tender, to build three additional gas turbine acoustic enclosures for the Type 26 Global Combat Ship programme, extending an Australian firm from domestic supply into export. The company has simultaneously opened a regional Defence headquarters in Canberra, inaugurated by the Deputy Prime Minister. FROM
Airlink will place its code on Qatar Airways-operated flights from 31 August 2026, adding Doha as the first long-haul destination in its 34-year history. The arrangement reciprocates a codeshare that has run one way since 2022 and builds on the 25 per cent shareholding Qatar Airways acquired in the South African carrier in 2024. A
Jetstar will remove its 7kg carry-on weight limit from 2 February 2027, replacing it with a size-based model in which every fare includes one underseat bag and overhead locker access becomes a paid Priority Carry-on product starting at A$25 one-way. Gate weighing will end; a 10kg guideline remains for passengers to lift their own bags.
