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Cathay hosted its first Inter-School Aviation Challenge Cup on January 25, 2026, at the Hong Kong Palace Museum, bringing together secondary school students from across the city for a live aviation knowledge competition. The event marks the airline’s latest effort to cultivate interest in the industry among young people. Christian Alliance S. C. Chan Memorial College emerged as the inaugural champion after four preliminary rounds and a final showdown. The winning team earned a place in the Cathay I Can Fly Youth Academy and a trip to Adelaide focused on aviation education and cross-cultural exchange. “We feel extremely thrilled and…

If you follow the US airline industry, you know that among the “big three” carriers, Delta is the most profitable, followed by United, followed by American. American has today released its 2025 full-year results, and the difference in profitability continues to grow, as the company’s leadership is seemingly running out of empty promises it can make. American reports $111 million profit for 2025, an 87% declineAmerican has today reported its 2025 full-year results, and they’re pretty brutal, at least competitively: The company had net income of $111 million, down 87% compared to $846 million the previous yearThe company had total…

When Aircraft Propeller Services set out to establish its first Asia Pacific facility in Malaysia, the company faced a formidable challenge: training a team to meet Collins Aerospace’s exacting original equipment manufacturer (OEM) standards, requiring the transference of knowledge from trainers based on opposite sides of the globe. The solution required an unprecedented cross-continental collaboration, with experts from Lake Zurich, Illinois, and Atibaia, Sao Paulo, traveling thousands of miles to share knowledge, set up equipment, and ensure the new facility could match the standards of its American and Brazilian counterparts. The effort brought together professionals whose combined expertise proved essential…

Bilt is the platform known for providing rewards for housing payments. We’re currently seeing massive changes at Bilt, including an overhaul of the credit card portfolio, plus new ways that housing rewards are offered. There are many innovative things about Bilt, including that there’s a Bilt Rent Day promotion on the first day of each month. With a new month being around the corner, the details of the February 2026 Bilt Rent Day offer have just been revealed, and it includes a big transfer bonus. It also includes a way to redeem Bilt Cash for a bigger transfer bonus, which…

Emirates has secured the future of two Airbus A380s in its fleet after signing a five-year lease extension with DS Aviation, a subsidiary of Dr. Peters Group. Under the terms of the extension announced in January 2025, Emirates has been given the option by Dr. Peters Group to purchase the Airbus A380s at the end of each extension period. The leases are held by two open-ended investment funds, Flight Invest 50 and Flight Invest 51, that Dr. Peters Group acquired from Hannover Leasing at the end of 2021. “Thanks to DS Aviation’s excellent contacts with Emirates, both parties reached an…

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Satellite imagery appears to show China is set to reclaim land on another reef in the South China Sea for yet another military base.Simultaneously, China demonstrated the use of hundreds of fishing boats to support future combat operations against Taiwan.The coral reef in question is Antelope Reef, located at 16°27’45”N, 111°35’20”E in the Paracel Islands. It is 250 miles east of Hue in Vietnam, and about 175 miles southeast of Sanya Naval Base on China’s Hainan Island.According to the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative – AMTI for short – China has military outposts, including sophisticated military bases…

It’s not unusual to see last minute aircraft swaps. Maybe you were scheduled to fly on a Boeing 737-800, and at the last minute, the plane is upgauged to a Boeing 737-900. However, that pales in comparison to what passengers in Russia recently experienced, when their passenger plane was swapped for a cargo plane, as flagged by aeroTELEGRAPH. IrAero puts passenger on a cargo plane without warning This incident happened on January 22, 2026, and involves IrAero, a Russian airline based in Siberia, which operates both passenger and cargo flights. A scheduled 535-mile service from Irkutsk (IKT) to Mama (UIKM),…

STARLUX Airlines has employed the talents of “visionary” Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama on the livery design of two upcoming Airbus A350-1000 aircraft. Dubbed AIRSORAYAMA, Sorayama has adopted his distinctive style to create liveries that use a metallic aesthetic, transforming the A350-1000 aircraft into “flying masterpieces”. On January 27, 2026, after three years of development, the unique designs were unveiled at a launch event at Tokyo’s Omotesando Hills where STARLUX also confirmed that the two AIRSORAYAMA jets are scheduled to enter service in the third quarter of 2026. Describing Sorayama’s metallic aesthetic as liquid metal livery, STARLUX said that the aircraft…

We know that just about everything at Southwest Airlines is changing. One of the biggest updates is that we’re seeing the Dallas-based airline introduce assigned and extra legroom seating, and that policy is live for flights as of today (January 27, 2026). With the airline moving from its open seating policy to its assigned seating policy, the airline is also updating its boarding process effective immediately, and Southwest will no longer have its unique “cattle call” boarding, as it’s often jokingly referred to. Let’s go over the details of Southwest’s new boarding system. How Southwest has overhauled its boarding process…

The U.S. Navy has selected the Gentex Pursuit helmet as the Next Generation Fixed Wing Helmet (NGFWH) to equip flight crews of E-2D, F/A-18, E/A-18G, T-45, T-6 and UJTS. Gentex Corporation has announced that the U.S. Navy’s Naval Aircrew Systems program office (PMA-202) selected its Pursuit helmet as the Next Generation Fixed Wing Helmet (NGFWH). The new helmet will replace the HGU-68P, also made by Gentex, across the E-2D, F/A-18, E/A-18G, T-45, T-6 and, in future, the Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS) fleets. Following the selection, the company was awarded a 5-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract to deliver over…