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Philippine Airlines has just put its newest route to the United States on sale, and it’s one that we knew was coming… Philippine Airlines plans Chicago flights as of late 2026 As of November 9, 2026, Philippine Airlines plans to launch 3x weekly nonstop flights between Manila (MNL) and Chicago (ORD). At 8,132 miles, this will be an ultra long haul flight, probably around the 25th longest flight in the world. The new service will operate with the following schedule: PR132 Manila to Chicago departing 4:40PM arriving 4:45PMPR133 Chicago to Manila departing 10:45PM arriving 5:25AM (+2 days) The route will…

Philippine Airlines (PAL) is adding Chicago to its growing list of US destinations, with nonstop service between Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) and Manila International Airport (MNL) set to begin on November 9, 2026. The route will make Chicago the airline’s eighth destination in the United States and its territories, joining Honolulu, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Guam, and Saipan.  With the addition, PAL becomes the Southeast Asian carrier with the widest reach into the US mainland and island territories. Flight details The service will operate three times weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.  Flights from Chicago will…

GRAZ, Austria — The European Commission this week unveiled the results of its 2025 European Defence Fund call for proposals, selecting 57 collaborative research and development projects for a combined €1.07 billion ($1.26 billion) in EU funding − a package that makes clear where the bloc’s defense priorities lie: drones, autonomy, and an increasingly institutionalized partnership with Kyiv.Of the total, €675 million ($796 million) will support 32 capability development projects, and €332 million ($391 million) will go to 25 research initiatives. The selected projects involve 634 entities from 26 EU member states plus Norway, with small and medium-sized enterprises making…

Thales has launched a new compact receiver that combines positioning, navigation and timing with anti-jamming protection in a single unit, aiming the product at land vehicles, drones and munitions operating in contested electromagnetic environments.  The TopStar Smart Receiver, unveiled on April 16, 2026, by the group, is pitched as the most compact three-in-one Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) solution on the market, and is assembled at Thales’s site in Valence, France. The group says the unit is already available for testing in operational conditions.  A three-in-one architecture  The receiver pulls together three functions that are usually handled by separate pieces of equipment on a platform. The first is a dual-constellation GNSS receiver…

PARIS — France’s armed forces are working on a data-management system powered by artificial intelligence as a sovereign equivalent to the U.S. Defense Department’s Project Maven, said Gen. Benoît Desmeulles, the commander of the French 1st Army Corps.The armed forces are working with partners on a system to provide what Desmeulles called “true distributed working capability” centered on data and using advanced AI, “a sovereign system that will essentially be the equivalent of Maven.”The system could be available within a few months, and available for exercises in September 2027, the general said, declining to provide specifics.Project Maven is a Pentagon…

In recent times, Korean Air has been investing in its passenger experience. The airline has done this both in anticipation of its merger with Asiana (where it wants to create a harmonized experience), and also because Korean Air has kind of been second rate compared to some of its rivals in Asia.One of Korean Air’s biggest projects has involved expanding and renovating its lounge portfolio at its Seoul Incheon Airport (ICN) Terminal 2 hub. As the very final piece of this puzzle, the airline has just revealed its new first class lounge, which is opening shortly. It’s a massive improvement…

Vertical Aerospace has achieved what its CEO Stuart Simpson described as the “most significant technical milestone” in its history after the air taxi developer became the first outside the US to execute a two-way transition. On 14 April 2026, at its spiritual home at Cotswold Airport (GBA), Chief Test Pilot Simon Davies successfully switched Vertical Aerospace’s electric vehicle takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft from helicopter mode to plane mode and back again. Only Joby Aviation has achieved this feat before and is an essential part of what makes electric air taxis possible with eVTOL aircraft requiring the capability to operate…

The US Army has formally assigned a common name to its next-generation tiltrotor: the MV-75 will be known as the Cheyenne II, Bell Textron announced on April 15, 2026.   The designation ties the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program to one of the most ambitious, and most cautionary, chapters in US Army rotorcraft history.  The Cheyenne II name honors the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, the two federally recognized Cheyenne nations. The choice is consistent with the US Army’s long-standing practice of naming helicopters after Native American tribes, a convention that produced the…

Spirit Airlines’ hopes of exiting Chapter 11 bankruptcy may have been blunted after reports emerged that the ultra-low-cost carrier is on the verge of liquidation. According to Bloomberg, sources have told the publication that against the rising costs of fuels cause by the Iran war, Spirit Airlines’ days could be numbered. On April 15, 2026, Bloomberg reported that a potential liquidation could rear its head as early as this week, although the situation is fluid and there are ongoing discussions with creditors. In the last big update from Spirit on March 13, 2026, the airline said it expected to emerge…

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