Israel

By Christine Boynton
Will it remain a year of resilient demand for U.S. airlines? Much hinges on the duration of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Airlines & Lessors

By Robert Wall, Brian Everstine, Steve Trimble
Assessing the the Iran war status is increasingly about who has what in stock.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
The Israel Defense Forces says it is increasing its focus on taking out Iran’s drone warfare capacity.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
Rheinmetall expects a flurry of orders from the Middle East and elsewhere for air defense gun systems after Iran fired drones against Gulf states.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall, Brian Everstine, Tony Osborne, Steve Trimble
The IDF stepped up attacks on Iranian military infrastructure after it and the U.S. said they were shifting focus to degrading long-term military capabilities.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Kurt Hofmann
Turkish Airlines' CFO Murat Sekar estimates the airline may see a $120 million loss if the conflict extends to a month.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
Lufthansa Group is seeing an “enormous” increase in demand on its Asia routes since the Iran war started and plans increased services to Africa and Asia-Pacific
Airlines & Lessors

By Robert Wall
The Israeli military said it would employ further ways to throw Iran off guard as its ops with the U.S. enter a new phase at the end of the first week of fighting.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Helen Massy-Beresford, Jens Flottau
Gulf airlines are operating miniscule schedules, if any, after the U.S. and Israel started their war against Iran. Threats to security could slow recovery, too.
Airports & Networks

By Robert Wall, Jens Flottau, Steve Trimble
Editors discuss the military operation in Iran, how it has disrupted commercial air travel and consider the ramifications for aviation.
Check 6

By Steve Trimble, Brian Everstine, Robert Wall, Tony Osborne
Regime change has long been considered a boots-on-the-ground operation. Now the U.S. and Israel are trying to do it from the sky.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Karen Walker
An aviation risk management and conflict zone overflight expert discusses what airlines and airports must prioritize through the Iran war.
Window Seat Podcast

By Tony Osborne
With the Israeli and U.S. air campaign against Iran entering its sixth day, a phase may be emerging: a hunt for Shahed drone launchers.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Jens Flottau, Helen Massy-Beresford
Since Israel and the U.S. launched their war against Iran, commercial aviation in the region has been thrown into deep turmoil with severe global repercussions.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
An Iranian drone has damaged Nakhchivan International Airport in Azerbaijan in the latest blow to commercial aviation from the escalating Middle East conflict.
Airports & Networks

By Robert Wall, Tony Osborne, Brian Everstine
Iran demonstrated that it retained the ability to threaten its neighboring countries as fighting with the U.S. and Israel stretched into a sixth day.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Helen Massy-Beresford, Alan Dron
Airlines forced to suspend operations following airspace closures in the Middle East are now focusing on repatriation and repositioning flights.
Airlines & Lessors

By Robert Wall, Brian Everstine, Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne
The U.S. and Israel were hunting the vestiges of Iran’s ballistic missile and drone inventory as the fighting stretched into a fifth day.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Helen Massy-Beresford, Ella Nethersole, Kurt Hofmann
Recovery from the major disruption to commercial aviation caused by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East could take weeks, industry players said.
Airlines & Lessors

By Robert Wall, Tony Osborne, Steve Trimble, Brian Everstine
The U.S. and Israeli military operation against Iran was starting to show signs of supply strains as it stretched into a fourth day of fighting.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
A group of competing defense contractors in the U.S. are jousting with each other to replace the venerable Patriot air defense missile.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall, Tony Osborne, Steve Trimble, Brian Everstine
The U.S. suffered further losses as the fight against Iran stretched into a third day, with signs the conflict is expanding as Israel engaged Iranian proxies in Lebanon.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
Israel’s ImageSat International says it plans to launch the first of its new Knight Earth-imaging satellites next year.
Satellites

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Histadrut has called a sector-wide labor dispute to protest against the Israeli government’s intention to approve a Wizz Air base in the country.
Airlines & Lessors

By Robert Wall
Israel says it has completed a series of flight tests of Rafael’s David’s Sling air defense system to validate performance enhancements.
Missile Defense & Weapons