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Airlines halt Riyadh flights as Houthis claim airport hit
Lufthansa Group Deutsche Lufthansa AG and several Indian carriers suspended flights to Riyadh on Thursday, October 8. Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said they had hit King Khalid International Airport with a ballistic missile and repeated threats against airlines using Saudi airspace.…
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Boeing’s 200-jet China deal hinges on Trump-Xi talks
The fate of Boeing's long-awaited 200-jet sale to China remains uncertain ahead of President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington on September 24, with industry insiders warning the deal's final terms will be shaped by the broader diplomatic bargaining between…
Flames, smoke seen near Riyadh airport after overnight air-raid alerts
Flames and a large plume of black smoke were seen rising near King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday, an eyewitness told Reuters, hours after Saudi authorities issued the first air-raid alert in the capital since fighting with Yemen's…
Lufthansa orders 20 Boeing 737 MAX 10s in $3.4B deal
Lufthansa Group on Thursday approved the purchase of 20 Boeing 737 MAX 10 aircraft, exercising options from a 2023 agreement and bringing its total firm orders for the MAX family to 60 jets.
Boeing nears 150-jet deal after Turkish Airlines threatened to walk away
Boeing The Boeing Company is close to finalizing a delayed order for 150 of its 737 MAX jets after Turkish Airlines Türk Hava Yolları A.O. threatened to walk away from the deal over a dispute about engine maintenance, Reuters reported…
AirBaltic files for Chapter 11 in New York amid Iran war fuel crisis
Latvia's airBaltic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday, seeking to restructure approximately $583 million in funded debt and finance lease liabilities while keeping its flights in…
GE Aerospace fixes engine seal flaw that threatened Boeing 777X timeline
GE Aerospace has completed a redesign of a cracked turbine mid-seal inside the GE9X engine, resolving a technical problem that had hung over Boeing's The Boeing Company long-delayed 777X program for much of 2026. The fix clears the way for…
Middle East flights still disrupted despite reopened skies
Six months after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran triggered the worst disruption to Middle Eastern air routes since the pandemic, airlines continue to cancel, suspend, and reroute flights across the region even as governments have partially reopened airspace. The…
220M airline passenger records exposed in Vietnam-linked database leak
A misconfigured Elasticsearch database left more than 220 million airline passenger and crew records — including passport numbers, nationalities, and detailed flight itineraries — accessible on the open internet for an unknown period before being secured in June, security researchers…
Zelenskyy warns airlines Russian skies are unsafe amid surging drone war
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a stark warning to international airlines, insurers, and governments on Monday that Russian airspace is "becoming completely unsafe" due to the expanding scale of Ukrainian drone operations over Russian territory.
Qantas annual profit falls 14% as Iran war fuels costs
Qantas Airways reported a 14% decline in annual profits on Thursday, warning that elevated fuel prices driven by the ongoing U.S.-Iran conflict will continue to weigh on its finances in the current fiscal year.
WestJet flight attendants ratify deal after strike
WestJet flight attendants have overwhelmingly ratified a new collective agreement, with 90.2 per cent voting in favour of the deal that ends months of tense labour negotiations and follows a one-day strike earlier this month that disrupted summer travel for…
Google and UK launch AI trial to cut aviation contrails over North Atlantic
Google Alphabet Inc. and the UK government on Tuesday announced Operation Blue Skies, the world's first state-backed trial to use artificial intelligence to reduce climate-warming contrails across an entire oceanic airspace. The £5 million, 30-month programme will test whether small…
China’s C919 jet makes first international flight
China's domestically built C919 passenger jet completed its first scheduled international commercial flight on Wednesday, departing Beijing Capital International Airport for Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in what analysts described as a largely symbolic milestone in Beijing's long-running effort to challenge the Boeing…
Apollo to take easyJet private in $7.7 billion deal
Apollo Global Management has agreed to acquire European budget carrier easyJet for £5.70 billion ($7.7 billion), taking the airline private after rival bidder Castlelake withdrew from its pursuit, Reuters reported on Thursday.
Japan Airlines profit plunges 80% as fuel crisis batters global carriers
The global aviation industry is buckling under the weight of surging jet fuel costs, with carriers from Tokyo to Fort Worth reporting sharply weaker earnings even as passenger demand holds and revenues climb to record levels. The crisis, rooted in…
WestJet flight attendants strike, grounding 309 flights on busy summer weekend
Flight attendants at WestJet Onex Corporation walked off the job early Sunday after nearly 11 months of contract negotiations with Canada's second-largest airline collapsed, grounding hundreds of flights during one of the country's busiest travel weekends.
Lufthansa, Air France-KLM submit rival bids for TAP stake
Europe's two largest airline groups filed competing binding offers on Wednesday for a minority stake in Portugal's flag carrier TAP Air Portugal, setting the stage for a decision that could reshape transatlantic aviation routes for decades.
Airbus Q2 profit jumps 54% as jet deliveries rebound
Airbus reported a 54% jump in second-quarter adjusted operating profit on Wednesday, beating analyst expectations as a rebound in commercial aircraft deliveries powered the European planemaker's strongest quarterly performance in over a year.
Airbus A350 completes 24-hour nonstop test flight from Melbourne to France
An Airbus A350-1000ULR landed in Toulouse, France on Monday after flying nonstop from Melbourne, Australia for 24 hours and 24 minutes, covering 23,075 kilometers in what the manufacturer called its longest-ever development flight. The marathon journey marks a critical milestone…
China’s new demands threaten 200-jet Boeing deal
China is demanding additional assurances before it will follow through on its commitment to purchase 200 Boeing The Boeing Company aircraft, a centerpiece of the commercial agreements struck during President Donald Trump's visit to Beijing in May, according to a…
Farnborough Airshow tops 300 aircraft orders in 3 days
The Farnborough International Airshow has crossed 300 firm aircraft orders through its first three days, with Boeing The Boeing Company holding a slight lead over Airbus in a show of renewed commercial momentum for the American manufacturer. Day one alone…
Dubai airport operating with roughly 55 airlines, down from 90 before Iran conflict
Dubai International Airport is operating with roughly 55 airlines — down from more than 90 before the Iran conflict began — as global carriers continue to weigh safety concerns and war-risk insurance costs against strong travel demand, Dubai Airports CEO…
Airbus targets near-doubling of profit by 2029, launches €5B buyback
Airbus unveiled an ambitious mid-term financial outlook on Tuesday, setting a 2029 adjusted operating profit target of €12 billion to €13 billion and announcing a €5 billion share buyback programme over three years, as the world's largest planemaker signaled confidence…
Emirates rejects 10 Boeing 777-9s, calls them fit for ‘baked bean cans’
Emirates President Tim Clark declared on Monday that the airline will refuse delivery of 10 early-build Boeing 777-9 aircraft, dismissing them as unfit for service after years of delays have rendered the jets too costly to bring up to current…
Boeing lands new freighter deal as Farnborough orders mount
Boeing The Boeing Company continued to build momentum at the 2026 Farnborough International Airshow on Tuesday, headlined by MSC Air Cargo's purchase of five 777-8 Freighters — the cargo operator's first order for the next-generation widebody freighter. The deal extends…
Boeing asks U.S. to challenge EU over record Airbus loan
Boeing The Boeing Company has called on the U.S. government to demand transparency from the European Union over a €3 billion loan package to Airbus, in a move that threatens to reopen transatlantic trade tensions just weeks after both sides…
Boeing eyes production ramp-up as Farnborough Airshow opens
Boeing The Boeing Company released its 2026 Commercial Market Outlook on the eve of the Farnborough International Airshow, forecasting that airlines and cargo operators worldwide will need nearly 44,000 new aircraft over the next 20 years as global passenger traffic…
Boeing and Airbus land 300+ orders on Farnborough day one
The Farnborough International Airshow opened on Monday with a burst of aircraft deals as Boeing The Boeing Company and Airbus collectively secured commitments for more than 300 jets, anchored by a landmark split order from one of the world's largest…
Riyadh Air orders 34 widebodies as Farnborough opens
Saudi Arabia's Riyadh Air placed orders for 34 widebody aircraft on Monday as the Farnborough International Airshow opened in Hampshire, England, deepening the young airline's commitments with both Boeing and Airbus just weeks after launching commercial service.