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October 30, 2026 11:20 UTC —
KLM A350 first passenger flight KL691 to Toronto is scheduled for October 30, with its 34 World Business Class seats uncertified and unsold.
October 29, 2026 17:19 UTC —
Rolls-Royce and the UK government agreed a joint 10-year, £2.5bn jet engine program on October 28, backing a Rolls-Royce return to narrowbody engines.
October 29, 2026 02:19 UTC —
A330neo PRIM fault AD: the FAA mandates a new flight control computer standard for 39 US A330-900s after all three PRIMs faulted at touchdown.
October 28, 2026 14:19 UTC —
SriLankan Airlines UL503 to London rejected its takeoff at Colombo after a suspected bird strike on an engine. A replacement jet left hours later.
October 26, 2026 23:21 UTC —
HK Express UO676 from Hong Kong to Jeju landed with a passenger hurt after a power bank in a bag under her seat overheated and smoked on Oct. 25.
October 26, 2026 11:17 UTC —
DL1181 tail strike: the NTSB final report says a trainee first officer’s aft sidestick after a bounce put a Delta A321’s tail on the LaGuardia runway.
October 23, 2026 17:25 UTC —
Storm Austen cancelled 37 of 46 Jersey flights on October 23, closed Guernsey and Alderney airports, and halted Airbus Beluga flights at Hawarden.
October 20, 2026 19:17 UTC —
A330neo radio management panel AD: the FAA proposes a wiring and software fix for 12 US A330-900s whose radio panels can lose their data sync.
October 20, 2026 17:21 UTC —
A330neo bleed valve AD: the FAA orders bleed monitoring computer software 5.0 on A330-800s and -900s after leaking high-pressure valves.
October 20, 2026 03:21 UTC —
A330 and A340 fuel LPSOV leak checks are ordered in FAA AD 2026-21-03, covering 115 US jets after closed shut-off valves were found leaking fuel.
October 16, 2026 08:48 UTC —
FAA proposes replacing door evacuation slides on A320-family jets after inflation hose connectors broke and slides failed to inflate in evacuations.
October 15, 2026 15:31 UTC —
Lufthansa’s first Airbus A350-1000, D-AIFA, flies Munich to Tokyo Haneda on December 3 with Allegris cabins, with Shanghai and Singapore next.
October 12, 2026 04:51 UTC —
AA2411, an American A321 from Charlotte to San Francisco, diverted to Memphis on Oct 11 after the pilots put on oxygen masks over toxic cockpit fumes.
September 29, 2026 10:29 UTC —
The Airbus A350F freighter made its first flight from Toulouse on September 29, 2026, opening a 400-hour test campaign aimed at certification in 2027.
September 28, 2026 03:10 UTC —
Lufthansa LH1170 from Frankfurt to Lisbon diverted to Lyon on Sept. 26 after a passenger’s power bank caught fire, eight months into a ban on using them.
September 25, 2026 11:51 UTC —
A321neo stringer defect: Airbus says a coating flaw in the lower forward fuselage of about 500 jets is a quality issue and not a safety risk.
September 23, 2026 03:40 UTC —
Qantas will fly Sydney to New York nonstop from mid-2028 on a 238-seat A350-1000ULR, an 18-hour flight. Tickets go on sale in August 2027, Qantas says.
September 23, 2026 02:37 UTC —
The FAA proposes cutting the life limit on Rolls-Royce Trent XWB fuel metering units on 38 US Airbus A350s, at up to $2.08 million per aircraft.
September 22, 2026 18:29 UTC —
FAA proposes replacing Airbus A300 main landing gear built with badly machined two-piece cages, in a directive covering 99 US-registered freighters.
September 20, 2026 19:26 UTC —
UPS 5X859 rejected takeoff at about 150 knots at Phoenix on September 20 after a low oil pressure indication, blew tires and stopped on a taxiway.
