Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Airlink will launch three weekly flights between Johannesburg Lanseria and Harare from 15 November 2026, operated by an Embraer E190. It will be the first scheduled airline service ever flown between the privately owned airport north-west of Johannesburg and the Zimbabwean capital, and Airlink’s first scheduled operation from Lanseria. A SECOND JOHANNESBURG GATEWAY ON SOUTHERN […]
A joint project involving Israel Aerospace Industries, the Technion, the Israel Innovation Authority, the Ministry of National Security and the Israel Fire and Rescue Authority has completed the first flight test of a fire detection system mounted on the APUS 25 VTOL drone, capable of locating fire outbreaks to metre-level accuracy and transmitting alerts directly
Willie Walsh has assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer at IndiGo, four decades after beginning his aviation career as an Aer Lingus pilot and days after concluding his tenure as Director General of IATA. He inherits an airline operating more than 430 aircraft and nearly 2,200 daily flights, with an explicit mandate to accelerate
The African Airlines Association, the Airlines Association of Southern Africa and IATA have issued a joint call for African States to implement Advance Passenger Information and Passenger Name Record systems in line with ICAO standards — and, pointedly, to fund those national border security programmes from government budgets rather than through charges levied on airlines
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, United Airlines and the US Department of Transportation have announced a capital investment programme of more than $20 billion at Washington Dulles International Airport, nearly tripling the $7 billion previously allocated. The decade-long project will replace the C/D Concourse, extend the AeroTrain system and retire the airport’s mobile lounge people
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore has awarded Thales a contract to develop the NexGen Air Traffic Management System and two air traffic control radars, replacing the current LORADS III system with the TopSky – ATC One solution. Scheduled to enter operational service by 2030, the system is specified to handle up to one million
Bombardier has delivered the 200th Challenger 3500 to Piero Ferrari, Vice Chairman of Ferrari, who will use the aircraft for travel to Formula One races and business engagements. The milestone comes less than four years after the type entered service, during which period Bombardier states it has out delivered every other business jet model in
Bell Textron has been awarded an estimated $300 million contract from the Department of the Navy for Structural and Power Improvements for NextGen Effects upgrades to up to 49 US Marine Corps AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom aircraft, with work beginning at the Amarillo Assembly Center in mid-2027 and first deliveries of upgraded aircraft in
Airbus flight test aircraft MSN707 has completed the longest flight in its programme to date, returning from Melbourne to Toulouse in 24 hours and 24 minutes covering 12,460 nautical miles — a development flight validating the fuel, cabin and crew rest systems that will underpin Qantas’s Project Sunrise routes, with two Qantas captains on the
NASA has awarded Advanced Space a contract for CAPSTONE 02, a 2027 mission flying two identical 400-kilogram spacecraft in lunar orbit to demonstrate rendezvous, proximity operations and autonomous navigation — the techniques astronauts will depend on when docking with Moon landers in cislunar orbit under the Artemis programme. FROM ORBIT VALIDATION TO OPERATIONAL REHEARSAL
