Aviation Daily

By Graham Warwick
Swiss International Air Lines has signed a five-year offtake agreement with Switzerland’s Synhelion.
Airlines & Lessors

By Christine Boynton
Volaris and Viva Aerobus have agreed to a merger of equals, bringing the country’s two largest domestic operators under a single holding company.
Airlines & Lessors

By Antoine Fafard
A total of 18 widebody aircraft were delivered in November, which was four units below the previous month but eight above November 2024.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Alex Derber
Pegasus Airlines signs a CFM Leap maintenance deal for its future 737-10 fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ella Nethersole
Libya is moving to revive its aviation sector with plans to launch a new national airline, Libyan United Airlines, expecting to begin operations in early 2026.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
Lufthansa plans to upgrade 134 Airbus A320 family aircraft with the FANS-C digital communications system to improve operations and lower CO2 emissions.
Airlines & Lessors

By Thierry Dubois
Onera has started using a new test facility for structural materials, applying new methods to a Clean Aviation project on airframes for hydrogen propulsion.
Emerging Technologies

By Chen Chuanren
Emirates and Gameco have signed new multi-year agreements extending heavy-maintenance support for Emirates’ Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 fleets.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ella Nethersole
Saudi LCC Flyadeal has opened a new, expanded Integrated Operations Control Center (IOCC) at its headquarters in Jeddah.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
Hong Kong–Taipei retained its position as the world’s busiest international air route in 2025, while nine of the 10 busiest routes were in the Asia-Pacific region.
Airports & Networks

By Daniel Williams
Boeing has delivered almost 540 aircraft by the end of November; there is still an outside possibility it can hit almost 650 deliveries by the end of the year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Williams
As of the end of November, Airbus had delivered nearly 660 aircraft; to get to its new target, the European airframer needs to deliver around 130 aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Christine Boynton
Heightened speculation on the ULCC’s next move comes just ahead of the winter holiday season, just over a year since its first round of bankruptcy protection.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Stansted, the UK capital’s third-largest airport, has received the go-ahead for a significant increase in its annual passenger limit.
Airports & Networks

By Sean Broderick
The U.S. Senate passed the ROTOR Act that would mandate ADS-B In and require ADS-B Out usage for all but the most national security-critical flying in congested airspace.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton
Delta Air Lines President Glen Hauenstein will retire in early 2026, following two decades at the company.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Neste and Cathay Group have agreed to a deal for the supply of Neste’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) across Europe, the U.S., and Asia-Pacific.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
Finnair will begin flying to Melbourne next autumn, marking the Nordic carrier’s first-ever scheduled service between Finland and Australia.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Spanish airport operator Aena has agreed to buy a majority stake in a new holding company that owns and manages Leeds Bradford Airport.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
Hybrid-electric propulsion for narrowbody airliners is a focus of the European Clean Aviation research program’s fourth call for proposals.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kurt Hofmann
SAS Scandinavian Airlines has reaffirmed its commitment to a wide-ranging, wet-lease cooperation with Braathens Regional Airways.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
New technology is significantly decreasing “permanently lost” luggage among air travelers, according to aerospace technical support systems specialist SITA.
Airports & Networks

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Ryanair plans to open a base in Morocco’s capital Rabat in April 2026; it will be the airline’s fifth base in the country.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
Sichuan Airlines is seeking to sell six Airbus A320ceos along with three spare engines and is inviting appraisers to assess the assets.
Airlines & Lessors

By Bill Carey
The FAA expects to commit half of the $12.5 billion Congress gave it for air traffic control modernization by the end of the year, Bedford tells senators.
Safety, Ops & Regulation