Airbus Outsold and Outdelivered Boeing Again in the First Half of 2026
July 19, 2026 08:28 UTC — Airbus outsold and outdelivered Boeing in the first half of 2026, taking 886 orders to Boeing’s 445. What the mid-year order books actually show....
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Aer Lingus Is Cutting Three US Routes and Up to 500 Jobs
July 18, 2026 09:45 UTC — Aer Lingus is cutting three US transatlantic routes and up to 500 jobs, trimming capacity 6% amid rising fuel costs and heavy transatlantic competition....
Farnborough Airshow 2026: What to Expect When the Order Books Open
July 18, 2026 09:21 UTC — Farnborough Airshow 2026 opens July 20 with big aircraft orders expected. Here is what to watch from Boeing, Airbus, Embraer and the analysts....
United Plans to Retire About 80 Aircraft in 2027 as It Awaits Its First 737 MAX 10
July 18, 2026 04:31 UTC — United Airlines will retire about 80 older aircraft in 2027 and expects its first Boeing 737 MAX 10 the same year, it said on its Q2 earnings call....
EASA Certifies Embraer’s Runway Overrun Alert System for the E2 Jet Family
July 18, 2026 04:17 UTC — EASA certified Embraer’s ROAAS runway overrun alerting system for the E-Jet E2 family, extending the anti-overrun tech to European operators....
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There is a specific kind of hunger that only happens at 35,000 feet. You boarded at 6am without breakfast, the drink cart is somewhere behind row 40, the only thing for sale is a shrink-wrapped cheese plate at an unreasonable price, and you still have three hours to go. Everyone has been there. The fix...
Donald Trump’s Private Jet: Inside the Gold-Plated Boeing 757 Built for a Billionaire President
The Boeing 757-200 registered N757AF sat in a fenced-off corner of Stewart International Airport in New York for nearly three years. Weeds grew around the landing gear. The black fuselage with its gold “TRUMP” lettering gathered grime. While it waited, its owner was being flown around the world on a different aircraft: a Boeing VC-25A,...
25 Aviation Home Office Decor Ideas
A home office should do more than hold a desk and a monitor. For anyone who lives and breathes aviation, it is a chance to build a workspace that tells a story: the romance of the open sky, the precision of a cockpit, the golden age of flight. Aviation design is inherently purposeful, and that...
25 Airplane Birthday Party Ideas for Every Age
A birthday party with an aviation theme has something most themes do not: a genuine sense of occasion. Airports, aircraft, and the act of flight are already tied to milestones, departures, and arrivals, which makes them a natural fit for a celebration marking another year. Whether the birthday belongs to a two-year-old who waves at...
Eastern Airlines Flight 401: The Crash That Put Ground Proximity Warnings on Every Airliner
Eastern Airlines Flight 401 departed John F. Kennedy International Airport on the evening of December 29, 1972, bound for Miami International Airport. The aircraft was a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, one of the most technologically advanced widebody jets in commercial service, delivered to Eastern Airlines less than a year earlier. Captain Robert Loft, a veteran with...
United Airlines Flight 173: The Fuel Exhaustion Crash That Created Crew Resource Management
United Airlines Flight 173 departed Denver on the afternoon of December 28, 1978, bound for Portland, Oregon. The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61, registration N8082U, carrying 181 passengers and a crew of eight under the command of Captain Malburn McBroom, a veteran pilot with more than 27,000 flight hours. First Officer Rodrick Beebe and...
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Types of Aircraft: The Complete Guide to Every Category
There are more than 50,000 commercial flights in the air on any given day, but commercial airliners represent only a small fraction of the aircraft types currently flying. Add military jets, private planes, helicopters, drones, gliders, and the newest eVTOL air taxis, and the full picture of what humanity puts into the sky runs to...
The Flights That Changed Aviation: How Accidents Made Flying the Safest Way to Travel
Commercial aviation is the safest form of long-distance travel in the history of transportation. That fact is not inevitable, and it is not accidental. It is the result of generations of accident investigators, engineers, and regulators who examined failures with methodical precision and then changed the rules. Every time something went wrong and people died,...
Behind the Radio: How Air Traffic Control Actually Works
Somewhere in the background of every flight you have ever taken, a set of voices you never heard was coordinating everything. The phrase “cleared for takeoff” that crackles through the cabin speaker represents the end of a chain of decisions made by people you will never meet, working in buildings you will never see, managing...