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NEWS Sep 17, 2022 PHOTOS: United Boeing 737 MAX Slides Into Grass at Florida Airport A United Boeing 737 MAX 9 slid into muddy grass during a rainstorm at Fort Myers Southwest Florida International Airport. After the pilots attempted full power in order to get the aircraft back onto the tarmac, emergency crews were called to assist. Read More →

Sep 16, 2022 French ATC Strike Leaves 1000+ Flights Canceled French ATC workers struck on Friday over wages and recruitment, affecting a thousand flights in France. Read More →

NEWS Sep 16, 2022 Turkish Airlines Is the World's Largest Network Carrier Turkish Airlines is the largest airline in the world when looking at August's available seat kilometer numbers. In fact, Turkish Airlines capacity and passenger numbers greatly outpaced their pre-pandemic numbers this summer. Read More →

INFORMATIONAL Sep 16, 2022 Sicko Mode: Inside Drake's Private Boeing 767 Drake lives quite the luxurious lifestyle, and his plane certainly matches. Take a tour inside the plane and out. Read More →

NEWS Sep 15, 2022 PHOTOS: Air India 737 Catches Fire in Muscat On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, an Air India Express 737-800 flight was delayed by 10 hours after smoke billowed from the aircraft's number two engine. No one was injured in the incident and the passengers were later ferried to their final destination. Read More →

NEWS Sep 11, 2022 United Airlines Places Order for 200 eVTOL Air Taxis On Thursday, United Airlines announced its order of 200 Electric Vertical Take Off and Landing (eVTOL) air taxis with Eve. The Embraer-owned startup, Eve Air Mobility, has made a $15 million pre-purchase agreement with United for 200 aircraft, with an option of 200 more available. The company had broken off from Embraer in May to become Publicly-traded, joining a shell company specializing in eVTOL aircraft. Read More →

NEWS Sep 09, 2022 Rolls Royce Withdraws from Supersonic Partnership Rolls Royce and Boom conclude their partnership for the development of the engines on their Boom Overture aircraft. This leaves the 2029 date for the Overture looking less likely. Read More →

NEWS Sep 09, 2022 Airbus Revokes All Qatar Airways A350 Orders Airbus recently announced its cancellation of Qatar Airways' remaining Airbus A350 orders. This comes as the latest escalation in the feud between the two companies. Qatar will now have much less capacity than expected due to this cancellation, which may cause problems to arise for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Read More →

NEWS Sep 08, 2022 Norwegian 737 Returns to Trondheim After Birdstrike On Monday, September 5, 2022, a Norwegian Air Shuttle 737-800 experienced a bird strike upon takeoff from Trondheim Vaernes Airport. The aircraft returned a few minutes after the strike occurred. The 737 will remain in maintenance until the damage has been fixed. Read More →

NEWS Sep 05, 2022 Hundreds of Flights Cancelled After Lufthansa Pilots Strike The Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union stated that Lufthansa pilots would begin a 24-hour strike starting at midnight Thursday. The reason: the airline's 5,000-member union went on strike after being denied a requested 5.5% pay increase and automatic inflation bumps. The pilots are also seeking a new pay and holiday structure that Lufthansa said would bring staff costs up 40% or around 900 million euros ($899 USD) within the next two years. Read More →