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INFORMATIONAL Jun 15, 2026 NASA's X-59 Quesst Aircraft Moves Closer to Supersonic Flight Testing NASA's X-59 experimental jet is accelerating its test schedule as engineers prepare the quiet supersonic demonstrator for its first flight. Read More →

NEWS Jun 10, 2026 Southwest Airlines Reopens Cockpit Jumpseat to Non-Crew Employees, Sparking Backlash From Flight Attendants Southwest Airlines reverses its flight attendant-only cockpit jumpseat policy, opening seats to all non-rev employees and angering cabin crew. Read More →

NEWS Jun 09, 2026 Electra Reveals 100-Seat Turbo-Electric Airliner Concept Under NASA's AACES 2050 Program Electra's hybrid-electric airliner concept targets quieter, more efficient regional flight by 2050 under NASA's Advanced Aircraft Concepts program. Read More →

NEWS Jun 04, 2026 American Airlines Suspends Select Summer Routes Citing Elevated Jet Fuel Costs American Airlines temporarily halts several summer routes as jet fuel prices climb, citing operational costs tied to ongoing global energy market pressures. Read More →

NEWS Jun 02, 2026 Delta Reconsiders Its Long-Awaited Transcontinental Business Class Seat Delta Air Lines may scrap plans for a new transcontinental business class seat, leaving its premium domestic strategy in question. Read More →

ROUTES May 22, 2026 American Airlines Has Just Opened Four New Nonstop Routes to Europe American Airlines touched down in European cities it had never served nonstop before, and returned to one it had abandoned for eight years, as four new transatlantic routes took off simultaneously on May 21, 2026, marking the opening day of the carrier's record summer 2026 schedule. Read More →

ROUTES May 22, 2026 Air Canada Is About to Fly Directly From Montreal to Mallorca for the First Time Air Canada is weeks away from launching a route that no Canadian carrier has ever flown before, a nonstop service between Montréal-Trudeau International Airport and Palma de Mallorca Airport on the sun-soaked Spanish island in the western Mediterranean. Read More →

ROUTES May 21, 2026 Alaska Airlines Has Just Taken Off to London for the First Time, and a Boeing 737 to Iceland Is Only One Week Away Alaska Airlines officially entered the transatlantic market today, operating its first-ever nonstop service between Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and London Heathrow, marking a fundamental shift in the identity of a carrier that, until recently, had never flown passengers across the Atlantic. Read More →

NEWS May 18, 2026 The US Has Lost More Than 40 Aircraft in 40 Days Over Iran and Congress Is Only Now Finding Out How Much It All Cost A Congressional Research Service report dated May 13, 2026, has formally documented what aviation and defence analysts had been tracking piecemeal since late February, that the United States military lost or sustained damage to more than 40 aircraft during Operation Epic Fury. Read More →

ROUTES Apr 28, 2026 Alaska Airlines Just Flew to Europe for the First Time in Its 93-Year History At 5:30 PM Pacific time on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, Alaska Airlines Flight AS180 lifted off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport bound for Leonardo da Vinci Rome Fiumicino Airport, and 93 years of Pacific-only aviation history came to an end. Read More →