The business of flying, including new and dropped routes, service launches, fleet decisions, and airline finances. Track how carriers grow, compete, and reshape where you can fly.
August 20, 2026 19:05 UTC —
Canada’s Federal Court rejected Volga-Dnepr’s bid to lift sanctions, keeping its seized Antonov An-124 cargo jet grounded at Toronto Pearson.
August 19, 2026 07:54 UTC —
SWISS will fly larger A320neos instead of A220-300s on Geneva-Heathrow from summer 2027, adding 35 seats a flight and moving the A220s to Zurich.
August 19, 2026 07:50 UTC —
American Airlines will install 4K seatback screens fleetwide starting in 2028, reversing its 2017 bet that passengers preferred their own devices.
August 18, 2026 12:25 UTC —
Google won a $10 million bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines’ internal data, planning to use emails, chats, and operations records to train AI models.
August 17, 2026 08:26 UTC —
Delta says its stopgap 44-seat A321neo first class cabin is running an 80% paid load factor, prompting a fleet-wide rethink of cabin size.
August 17, 2026 07:20 UTC —
Emirates and flydubai resumed flights over Iranian airspace on August 16, even as EASA’s advisory against it runs through August 31.
August 14, 2026 06:59 UTC —
American Airlines reshuffled seven executives after profits collapsed 88%. Here’s what changed, and why the gap with Delta triggered it.
August 13, 2026 07:55 UTC —
Korean Air’s board and Asiana’s shareholders approved their merger on August 12, 2026, setting up a combined carrier to launch December 17.
August 12, 2026 08:01 UTC —
airBaltic is shrinking its Airbus A220 fleet by a third and seeking 225 million euros to survive. Here’s what’s driving the rescue plan.
August 10, 2026 06:11 UTC —
Emirates and South African Airways expanded their codeshare to nine reciprocal routes, letting Emirates sell SAA’s African network.
August 9, 2026 06:45 UTC —
Delta will fly Seattle to Tokyo Narita from March 2027, its fourth head-to-head long-haul route against Alaska out of Seattle.
August 7, 2026 08:17 UTC —
Qantas trims its Alliance Aviation E190 wet lease from 30 to 23 jets, with higher pricing, after Alliance called the deal cash-flow negative.
August 7, 2026 04:55 UTC —
EVA Air will fly Taipei to New Delhi nonstop from December 1, 2026, the only such route since China Airlines dropped it during the pandemic in 2020.
August 7, 2026 04:06 UTC —
Apollo will take easyJet private for £7.15 a share, £5.7 billion in total, after rival bidder Castlelake withdrew from a months-long bidding war.
August 4, 2026 09:15 UTC —
Qantas is exiting Jetstar Japan, selling its 33.32 percent stake in an 8.2 billion yen buyback as the Development Bank of Japan comes in as a shareholder.
August 4, 2026 02:53 UTC —
WestJet and CUPE reached a tentative agreement on August 3, ending the flight attendant strike that grounded the airline’s Sunday schedule.
August 3, 2026 04:04 UTC —
IndiGo ends widebody operations on October 25, returning six Norse Atlantic 787-9s and suspending London Heathrow flights until its A350s arrive.
August 3, 2026 02:42 UTC —
Turkish Airlines is rerouting its Istanbul to Sydney A350-900 service through Singapore instead of Kuala Lumpur from October 26, 2026. Here is why.
August 2, 2026 13:15 UTC —
US Treasury sanctioned Mahan Air general sales agents in China, India and Russia, targeting the booking network behind Iran’s IRGC-linked airline.
