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NEWS Sep 25, 2025 100+ Flights Cancelled at Hong Kong Airport as Typhoon Ragasa Approaches Coast Hundreds of flights were cancelled at Hong Kong’s airport as Super Typhoon Regasa made in on the city, with weathermen saying it would be the most intense storm to strike this year. Read More →
NEWS Sep 23, 2025 UK Approves $3 Billion London-Gatwick Airport Expansion Plan In a significant development for the U.K. infrastructure and airlines, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has given the green light to a £2.2 billion (USD $2.9B) London-Gatwick Airport expansion. Read More →
INFORMATIONAL Sep 23, 2025 Supersonic Secrets: The Tupolev Tu-144 "Concordski" In the technological competition between the U.S. and the USSR during the Cold War, military and commercial aviation emerged as a crucial battlefield. Both superpowers competed to build better aircraft between 1946 and 1991. Within a year after the Soviet Union unveiled a fighter jet with a more sophisticated design than the Americans, the United States would produce a more capable design, outperforming its competition in both performance and innovation. Read More →
INFORMATIONAL Sep 18, 2025 One Size Too Small: What Happened to the Airbus A318? Once hailed as the future of short-haul aviation, the Airbus A318 quickly became the black sheep of the A320 family. This article explores the rise, fall, and rare opportunities to still catch a ride on the smallest Airbus ever built. Read More →
INFORMATIONAL Sep 17, 2025 Terminal Trouble: One of Japan's Busiest Airports is Slowly Sinking Kansai International Airport (KIX) is the primary international airport serving the city of Osaka in Japan. Geological factors are increasingly putting Kansai Airport at risk of sinking, an unusual scenario related to how the airport was built. Read More →
NEWS Aug 25, 2025 CLEAR Introduces eGates at Major Airports, Biometric Scanning On August 19th, CLEAR launched its eGates, which allow CLEAR+ members to bypass any security checkpoint lines and proceed directly to bag screening. Read More →
NEWS Feb 04, 2025 Air Madagascar Sells Two Airbus A340-300s To Chinese Buyer for $2 Million Air Madagascar has sold its two Airbus A340-300 aircraft for $2 million (€1.93 million) to a Chinese buyer, according to a report by Midi-Madagascar on January 30, 2025. Read More →
NEWS Jan 16, 2025 Jeju Air Black Box Flight Recorders Failed Minutes Before South Korean Plane Crash The black boxes of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft that crashed several weeks ago in Muan, South Korea, stopped working during the last four minutes of the flight. The crash killed 179 of the 181 people onboard. Without the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, investigators now face a significant setback as they lack crucial information that promised to shed light on the incident. Read More →
INFORMATIONAL Jan 08, 2025 Could You Survive a Plane Crash? The Unlikely Science of Plane Crash Survival With air travel consistently being heralded as the safest form of public transport, most of us do not board a plane pondering our chances of survival in the event of a crash. But, is it possible to survive one? Read More →
INFORMATIONAL Nov 04, 2024 Singapore Airlines Brings First Class to the World’s Longest Flight In an age where First Class products seem to be gradually phasing out around the world, one airline is giving it another chance. Singapore Airlines just announced a massive cabin retrofit program coming to its fleet of Airbus A350s. This includes the addition of a new First Class cabin and updated Business, Premium Economy, and Economy Class offerings. Read More →