Aerotime

JUNE 3, 2025

Ethiopian Airlines is eyeing up a possible double-digit order for regional jets with Airbus, Boeing and Embraer all in the running for the potentially lucrative deal. The CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Mesfin Tasew Bekele, spoke to Reuters at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) where he confirmed the carrier was considering at least 20 regional or small jets.

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Cranky Flier

JUNE 2, 2025

The worst-kept secret in the industry finally became officialy last week when United and JetBlue announced the launch of their Blue Sky partnership. The headlines were about what I expected, but there were some interesting nuggest buried in the release. I spoke with JetBlue President Marty St George to get the story. On the surface, again, it’s largely what I expected.

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Alaska Air

JUNE 3, 2025

Alaska Airlines is continuing the celebration of our new global gateway in Seattle by adding Rome, Italy, to our international destination lineup. This is the first time in history that Seattle will be connected to Italy via a nonstop flight. The post Ciao Italia! Alaska Airlines announces new nonstop service between Seattle and Rome appeared first on Alaska Airlines News.

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 2, 2025

Few things capture the imagination quite like the survival stories of historic warbirds. Beyond their combat records and engineering marvels, it’s often the sheer improbability of their survival that fascinates most. Many of these legendary aircraft owe their continued existence to a string of fortunate circumstancesrepurposed for aerial survey work, stored away in forgotten hangars, or turned into static displays in unexpected places.

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 4, 2025

In todays episode of yes, airport curfews are actually enforced, I present to you what happened on a recent Condor flight , which missed the airport curfew by seconds, leading to an outrageously complicated rerouting (thanks to Klaus for flagging this). Delayed Condor flight misses Munich Airport curfew by seconds On Monday, June 2, 2025, Condor flight DE1513 was scheduled to operate from Palma de Mallorca (PMI) to Munich (MUC).

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Aerotime

JUNE 3, 2025

Ryanair, Europes leading low-cost airline, has called for the CEO of the UKs National Air Traffic Services (NATS), Martin Rolfe, to resign immediately after almost 12,000 Ryanair passengers travelling to and from London-Stansted Airport (STN) on May 31, 2025, were made to suffer what the airline described as unnecessary delays of up to 50 minutes due to staff shortages among NATS-employed air traffic controllers.

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Cranky Flier

JUNE 4, 2025

If you’ve left a comment in the last couple of days, you may have noticed some, uh, turbulence. See, the company that has powered my comment emails for years, Postmatic, seems to have just disappeared. All of a sudden, it stopped working. I sent a help request and heard nothing back. So, I had to scramble to find an alternative. While I was doing that, I found something that you’ve all been asking about for ages… the ability to edit. 1) You Can Now Edit Your Comments If you lea

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Simple Flying

JUNE 1, 2025

The New Terminal One at John F. Kennedy International Airport is being built at a massive scale and promises to be not just one of the best in the country but also globally. As part of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's $19 billion transformation of JFK Airport, it will be completed in two phases the first phase, including the new arrivals and departures halls and the first set of 14 new gates, is expected to open in 2026.

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 3, 2025

Its quite a transformative time for Alaska Air Group, as the company acquired Hawaiian Airlines , and is turning Seattle-Tacoma into a global hub , with plans to launch a dozen long haul routes by 2030. Weve recently seen the airline add flights to Tokyo Narita (NRT) , and then flights to Seoul Incheon (ICN) are coming as of September 2025. Weve known that the third long haul destination out of Seattle will be to Europe, and we now have the details its exactly what many of us were expecting.

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Aerotime

JUNE 5, 2025

The transformation of Air India is one of the most remarkable stories to come out of Indias current commercial aviation boom. The Everest of turnarounds, as British weekly The Economist once described it, has transcended the confines of the airline industry to become a symbol of the south-Asian nation economic growth and newfound confidence on the global stage.

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Cranky Flier

JUNE 3, 2025

June 1 was the day that Chicago/O’Hare was required by the terms of its lease to officially publish its new gate map. Even though the gates won’t change hands until October, the deed is done … though American’s objections are still making their way through the courts. Here is what O’Hare will look like in October if the courts don’t force a change: Image via Chicago Department of Aviation In the end, there were no surprises, but things did shift around compare

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Flying Magazine

JUNE 3, 2025

The avionics market is undergoing substantial growth and is expected to be worth $82.3 billion by 2030, according to a new report from research and management consulting firm MarketsandMarkets. Market revenue for the industry this year is expected to reach $56.2 billion, and if MarketsandMarkets prediction holds true, the sector will see a compound annual growth rate of 7.9 percent over the coming five years.

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Simple Flying

MAY 31, 2025

Lufthansa plans to retire its fleet of Airbus A340-600s at the start of 2026 as the airline introduces more efficient replacements, according to information from aero.de. This primarily concerns additional Boeing 787s, of which Lufthansa hopes to receive eight to 10 more by the end of this year.

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 1, 2025

We often hear of passengers behaving poorly on flights, but its rare to hear of this kind of behavior from a member of the crew British Airways flight attendant suspected of inflight drug binge This incident happened on Saturday, May 24, 2025, and involves British Airways flight BA284, operating as an Airbus A380 service from San Francisco (SFO) to London (LHR).

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Aerotime

JUNE 3, 2025

One of the two main runways at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) reopened nearly two weeks ahead of schedule, US Department of Transport Secretary Sean Duffy has announced. On June 2, 2025, Duffy hosted a press conference at Newark airport to celebrate the early reopening of Runway 4-Left/22-Right. Duffy was accompanied by Chris Rocheleau, the Acting Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Sarah McKeon, the Port Authority Aviation Director, Scott Kirby, the CEO of Un

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Cranky Flier

JUNE 5, 2025

This week on The Air Show , we are talking about JetZero and its proposed aircraft. With the episode just going live — if you don’t see it, keep refreshing — I’m putting up a bonus Thursday post with some visual aids that will help you understand what we’re talking about. You really have to see it, I think. The airplane itself is a blended-wing aircraft, or as they like to call it, an “all-wing” airplane.

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Flying Magazine

JUNE 3, 2025

Newark Liberty International Airport (KEWR) continues to contend with equipment and staffing issues that created major disruptions in April and May. But the airport could ramp up activity earlier than expected. On Monday, Newarks 11,000-foot Runway 4L/22Rthe busiest of its three runways for departuresreopened for departures about two weeks before a $121 million rehabilitation effort was slated to end.

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Simple Flying

JUNE 4, 2025

There is no doubt that few aircraft have left a legacy as vast and profound as the Boeing 747. Known as the "Queen of the Skies," the 747 revolutionized long-haul travel and reshaped global air transport. Yet as fleets worldwide retire their aging jumbo jets in favor of more efficient models, one early variant stands out for its remarkable longevity: the Boeing 747-100.

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 2, 2025

PYOK flags a Reddit post by a flight attendant at a major US airline, which has since been deleted, presumably due to how overwhelmingly negative the responses from other flight attendants were. Let me emphasize that this is of course an anonymous flight attendant, so I cant personally confirm the accuracy of the story. However, I have a hard time imagining how one would even think to make something like this up.

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Aerotime

JUNE 2, 2025

Airlines are expected to transport more passengers and more cargo in 2025 than in 2024, even though previous demand forecasts were affected by trade tensions and a decline in consumer confidence, according to Willie Walsh, the Director General of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). IATA issued the updates in its 2025 airline industry financial outlook on June 2, 2025, during the 81 st IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM), hosted by IndiGo in Delhi from June 1 to June 3, 2025.

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 3, 2025

Last year, we published an article about The Museum of Flight (MOF) of Seattle, Washington, restoring two of their WWI aircraft displays, namely their original 1918 Pfalz D.XII fighter and their Fokker D.VII reproduction. Now, one of the two aircraft has successfully returned from the museum’s Restoration Center and Reserve Collection at Paine Field in Everett, just north of the museum’s main campus at Seattle’s King County International Airport – Boeing Field and is now

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Flying Magazine

JUNE 2, 2025

Lawmakers in Louisiana have advanced a bill based largely on a conspiracy theory alleging that aircraft are spraying nanochemicals that alter the weather. SB 46 , passed by the state House of Representatives on May 29, would ban chemtrails, the white streaks that trail from jets as they fly. The white lines are actually known as condensation trails or contrails, and they are the result of water vapor in hot aircraft engine exhaust hitting low temperatures at high altitudes.

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Simple Flying

JUNE 1, 2025

The 20th century saw a vast number of new aircraft designs. Today, however, these are few and far between. Airbus refreshed its A320 and A330 series into the A320neo and A330neo, respectively, while developing the clean-sheet A380 and A350. Boeing has only released the 787 as a new aircraft design, while it refreshed the 737 and 777. Embraer refreshed its popular E-Jet series as the E2, while Bombardier created the clean-sheet CSeries, now the Airbus A220.

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 2, 2025

When you think of Emirates, the Airbus A380 may be the first thing that comes to mind. And when you think of the Airbus A380, Emirates might be the first thing that comes to mind. Emirates helped turn Dubai into the global transit hub that it is today, and the A380 is the plane that really enabled Emirates to do that. For the Dubai-based carrier, the A380 is more than just another aircraft.

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Aerotime

JUNE 4, 2025

Vermont-based advanced air mobility developer BETA Technologies has successfully completed its first passenger-carrying all-electric aircraft demonstration flight at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). The historic flight follows six years of testing and development by BETA, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced in a statement on June 3, 2025.

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Cranky Flier

JUNE 7, 2025

American’s inaugural flight on its new 787-9, internally called the 787-9P, was from Chicago to Los Angeles this week. While the airplane was on the ground at LAX on its turn, I was invited to come and take a look. I put together two threads on Bluesky with the photos I took. First, here’s a look at all the cabins onboard. Click in to see the rest of the photos in the replies.

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Flying Magazine

JUNE 4, 2025

Before a student pilot can legally fly solo, they must be able to demonstrate not just control of the airplane but command of the environment around it. That environment is not limited to weather and airspace. It also encompasses items such as charts, procedures, regulations, frequencies, weight and balance data, and performance calculations. In short, the sometimes tedious but always vital “paperwork.” Until a few decades ago, pilots carried binders and books, heavy kneeboards cramm

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Simple Flying

JUNE 2, 2025

With its four engines, the 747 uses vast quantities of fuel, burning through 3,800 gallons every hour. This high fuel burn amounts to 0.9 gallons used every second and 0.19 miles per gallon (mpg).

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 3, 2025

American Express has a great portfolio of small business cards , and the cards often have large welcome offers. For that matter, a lot of card issuers have been focused on small business cards over the past several years, and youll often find that they have better welcome bonuses and benefits than personal cards. For those who may not be familiar with the process of applying for business cards, in this post I want to talk about Amex small business cards.

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Aerotime

JUNE 2, 2025

Embraer has strengthened its presence in India by setting up a wholly owned subsidiary, which will be based in AeroCity, New Delhi. In a press release, published on May 30, 2025, Embraer announced that the move underscores the Brazilian manufacturer’s long-term vision for growth and potential collaboration with Indias rapidly evolving aerospace and defense landscape.

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Vintage Aviation News

MAY 31, 2025

On May 17, 2025, Douglas G. Matthews was formally inducted into the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame , honoring a lifetime of distinguished service to military and civilian aviation, warbird preservation, and flight innovation. A 28,000-hour pilot, Matthews began flying at age 14 and went on to serve two tours in Vietnam as a U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander, flying 123 combat missions and earning 11 medals and ribbons, including 10 Air Medals.

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Plane and Pilot

MAY 31, 2025

Not surprisingly, the No. 1 cause of general aviation accidents remains loss of control (LOC). Sadly, theres an average of about one LOC event a week. However, these preventable accidents can happen anywhere in our aviation world. The most famous of these was Air France Flight 447. It was the evening of June 1, 2009, and Flight 447, a 4-year-old Airbus 330, was serenely cruising just below the equator at FL 360.

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Simple Flying

MAY 31, 2025

The Boeing 777X is not only Boeing's latest aircraft project, but it's also, in some metrics, the largest design to ever come out of Washington. Compared to the Boeing 747-8, it has a smaller fuselage and is rated for lower weights. However, the 777-9 variant is slightly longer while also having a greater wingspan (with wingtips extended, that is).

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 3, 2025

The Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card ( review ) and Capital One Venture X Business ( review ) have in recent years become popular premium travel credit cards, offering great value. This includes everything from a $300 annual travel credit , to 10,000 anniversary bonus miles , to valuable airport lounge access. Aspects of the cards almost seemed too good to be true, so unfortunately theres an update, along those lines.

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Aerotime

JUNE 2, 2025

Indias national carrier Air India, owned by the Tata Group, is reportedly in talks with Airbus and Boeing for a significant new aircraft order that could include around 200 additional narrowbody jets, according to industry sources quoted by Reuters. According to Reuters, news of a possible new order circulated during the 81 st International Air Transport Association (IATA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Delhi.

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Flying Magazine

JUNE 3, 2025

There is more to being a flight instructor than telling a learner “more right rudder.” You can find out how much more and enhance your skills as an aviation educator at the third annual National Association of Flight Instructors Summit on September 21-23 in Akron, Ohio. Registration is now open for the event that will take place at the Military Aviation Preservation Society (MAPS) Air Museum, located at the Akron-Canton Airport (KCAK).

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Cranky Flier

MAY 31, 2025

I’m running out of free AI queries, but this is what “cranky flier brett snyder web” produces. This is all wrong… that is not a commercial plane in the background. Could Newark’s trouble affect your summer travels? Here’s what to know | Cruising Altitude – USA Today Newark is a mess, but should you stress? Not really.

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