Spain

From Routes World 2025 in Hong Kong, Andalucia sees the potential for more long-haul service.

From Routes World in Hong Kong, Aena outlines its plans to boost long-haul connectivity from Spain’s mid-sized airports.

Lasers, maneuvering satellites and spaceplanes are getting more attention as Western militaries look to counter threats to their space systems.

Six major aviation programs to be led by Airbus Defense and Space and Airbus Helicopters were given a Royal Decree by Spain on Sept. 23.

Germany and Spain are among the countries looking to move quickly to get counterspace systems into orbit.

Ryanair says it plans to cut its winter 2025-26 capacity in Spain by more than one million seats, citing what it calls “excessive and uncompetitive” charges.

F-35 purchases by European countries are back in the spotlight as Spain scraps procurement plans and Switzerland wrestles with a $1.6 billion cost surge.

In this week’s Carbon Analysis, the efficiency of all Spanish carriers is assessed and compared to the rest of the world.

Spain has reportedly scrapped plans to acquire the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter after apparently choosing to spend the funds in Europe instead.

The European cooperative armaments agency Occar has reached an agreement with industry to adjust the requirements for the Eurodrone UAS.

Turkish Aerospace is hoping to be on contract as soon as September for the first major sale of the company’s Hurjet advanced jet trainer to Spain.

A Slovakian-led research project to develop a hydrogen-powered vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft has been approved to receive almost €60 million ($69 million) in European Union funding.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Missile programs and procurement are at the heart of a renewed defense cooperation agreement between France and the UK.

Spain will again rely on Airbus to provide its radar satellites with a replacement.

The four-nation Eurofighter combat aircraft is “still very much in the game” for potential export sales to Saudi Arabia and Turkey, says a UK government minister.

A move to include a cabin bag as standard in ticket prices would also hit airline ancillary revenues.

Questions still hang over the implementation of NATO members' increased defense spending goal.

Speaking to the Defense Commission of the Spanish Senate, Defense Minister Margarita Robles said that Spain is budgeting €1.375 billion for the TAI Hurjet buy.

NHIndustries aims to extend the NH90’s frontline role with a Block 2 upgrade, which could help position it for NATO’s rotorcraft needs in the 2040s.

Diehl and Sener have struck an agreement to work together on projects such as remote carriers and hypersonic weapons technologies.

The Spanish-German team developing a radar upgrade for some Eurofighter Typhoons is gearing up to begin mass production of the system as it looks to wrap up flight trials.

Can the French-German-Spanish fighter development program be saved? The next few months could be decisive.

The leader of Colombia strongly rejected a nearly month-old report that he has received a recent offer from China to buy J-10CE fighters.

EHang has announced the sale of 41 autonomous EH216-S multicopter eVTOLs to a special economic zone in Changchun, Jilin Province, China.