The Boeing 757 replacement took 20 years. Boeing ended it in 2004, the Airbus A321XLR now takes its routes, and 436 757s, mostly freighters, still fly.
An A-10 was damaged in Iran’s strike on a Jordan air base. China has 650 hardened jet shelters near Taiwan. The US has added two since the early 2010s.
The NATS air traffic control failure cancelled over 1,750 UK flights. It was the third national outage since 2023, and regulators had just closed the last fix.
