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The United Kingdom has officially granted London Gatwick Airport (LGW) approval to use its second runway on a regular basis. Normally limited to taxiing operations or as a fallback for the main runway, a plan has been approved to bring this strip into routine use with a series of modifications and conditions. IATA Code LGW City London Gatwick Designation Major-International The implementation of regular flight operations on London Gatwick Airport’s second runway marks part of a wider investment plan, which will see £2.2 billion ($2.97 billion) poured into the facility in order to boost its capacity. A quick turnaround is…

The German Air Force dispatched two Eurofighter jets to monitor a Russian IL-20M reconnaissance aircraft that entered neutral airspace over the Baltic Sea on September 21, 2025.  “Once again, NATO tasked the German Quick Reaction Alert detachment, consisting of two Eurofighters, to investigate an unidentified aircraft without a flight plan or radio contact in international airspace,” the German Delegation to NATO announced in a statement on the evening of September 21, 2025.  After visually identifying the aircraft, the German Air Force transferred the escort responsibility to Swedish NATO allies and returned to Rostock-Laage. The escort process was carried out safely…

Cathay Pacific has announced that it’s resuming a route that was “permanently” cut several years back. The timing here is quite interesting, if you ask me. Cathay Pacific’s Hong Kong to Seattle route returns As of March 30, 2026, Cathay Pacific plans to operate 5x weekly flights between Hong Kong (HKG) and Seattle (SEA), with the following schedule: CX852 Hong Kong to Seattle departing 1:30PM arriving 10:10AMCX853 Seattle to Hong Kong departing 11:50AM arriving 4:45PM (+1 day) The flight will operate in both directions on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The 6,500-mile flight is blocked at 11h40min eastbound and…

Cathay Pacific has unveiled plans to return to the US tech hub Seattle, making it the ninth North American city to which the Hong Kong flag carrier flies.   On September 9, 2025, Cathay Pacific announced that non-stop flights to Seattle would begin from March 30, 2026, with five flights between Hong Kong and the US city scheduled each week.   Cathay noted Seattle’s vibrancy and strong tech-industry links, which include both Microsoft and Amazon being headquartered there.  Cathay CCO Lavinia Lau said: “We are excited to resume direct passenger flights to Seattle, reinforcing our goal to deepen business and cultural ties…

On September 9, 2025, Aarok, the prototype Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) drone, developed by French company Turgis & Gaillard, carried out its maiden flight from Blois-Le Breuil airfield.  The flight lasted about an hour and demonstrated the maturity of the platform, according to the manufacturer. Conducted with a pilot on board for safety reasons, it marks a decisive step in France’s drive to field a sovereign MALE drone.  “This first flight crowns four years of significant effort to give birth to the first European MALE drone,” said Fanny Turgis, president of Turgis & Gaillard. “The team worked tirelessly to…

While standing next to a mockup of Proteus at a briefing, Leonardo’s Managing Director of Helicopters UK announced that its demonstrator is set to fly for the first time this year.   On September 12, 2025, Nigel Colman told journalists that the “hard work was progressing well” as it looks to progress the Proteus demonstrator.  “It will fly,” Colman said. “It will fly because the Royal Navy wanted to see it fly this year. It’s fully built, though. Fuel tanks are in. I don’t think the engines are quite in, but it’s literally fully built.”   He added: “In the coming weeks…

NASA scientists have discovered compelling new evidence indicating that Mars might once have supported life, similar to that which exists on Earth today.  On September 10, 2025, NASA announced new findings from a sample called ‘Sapphire Canyon’, collected by the Perseverance Mars rover from a rock named ‘Cheyava Falls’ on the Red Planet in July 2024.  After a year of analysis, scientists have confirmed that the sample contains a “potential biosignature”, marking the strongest evidence yet found by the space agency of ancient microbial life in its 60 years of exploring Mars.  According to NASA scientists, a potential biosignature is…

XTI Aerospace, a Colorado-based developer of hybrid vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, has priced a public stock offering that is intended to raise another $20 million to support the development of the TriFan 600, a tiltrotor-style aircraft that the company claims will cruise at more than 300 miles per hour with a range of 1,000 miles.  On September 12, XTI said it will sell 12.5 million new shares of its stock (or “pre-funded warrants” in place of shares for some investors). Each comes packaged with an option, known as a common warrant, that gives investors the opportunity to buy another share later. The…

It might not be quite as futuristic-looking as George Jetson’s spaceship-like flying car from the classic 1960s cartoon, but the Jetson One single-seat octocopter is still pretty wild. And unlike the animated version, this one is real — and, amazingly, now in the hands of its first customer. The Polish-founded startup Jetson has delivered the first electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) Jetson One to Oculus and Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey in California. The milestone marks Jetson’s shift from concept to commercialization and underscores its ambitions to expand in the US with a product that has an open-air cockpit and…

You can’t help but feel bad for airline representatives when they have to deal with customers like this… Allegiant’s $5 boarding pass fee leads to arrest Police body camera footage has been posted online of an incident that happened on August 3, 2025, at the Allegiant Air check-in desk at Punta Gorda Airport (PGD). Allegiant is an ultra low cost carrier, and the airline charges service fees for all kinds of things. Among those things, there’s a $5 fee to print a boarding pass at the airport, for those who choose not to use the app or print their boarding…