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One popular points property in Seattle will be transitioning from Hilton to Hyatt, and I can’t help but find this to be a curious move, and perhaps indicative of bigger issues with one of Hilton’s open-ended luxury brands. Hotel 1000 Seattle rebranding on short noticeHotel 1000 currently belongs to Hilton LXR, which is Hilton’s independent luxury hotel portfolio. However, the hotel will be leaving the Hilton brand as of January 22, 2026. Per a notice on the hotel’s website:Please note that as of midnight January 22, 2026, the hotel will cease to operate as a Hilton hotel. As a result,…

Renault is preparing to manufacture a new long-range military drone, Chorus, in France under a partnership with defense company Turgis Gaillard The move could lead to a contract worth around €1 billion over 10 years with the country’s defense procurement agency, the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA).  French outlet L’Usine Nouvelle reports that Chorus is a multi-role long-range loitering munition designed for both strike and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. The system is conceived as a relatively low-cost, expendable drone comparable in employment concept to Iran’s Shahed family, which Russia has used extensively in Ukraine.  Chorus loitering munition  According to the report, Turgis Gaillard developed the initial Chorus design before teaming with…

Earlier I wrote about Google Flights, probably the most useful tool for comparing airfare. In this post, I’d like to cover another website I constantly use when planning air travel, which is perhaps a little less obvious. On a near daily basis I’m curious to see what nonstop flights exist out of an airport, and on what airlines. Sometimes I do this for trips I’m actually planning, while other times I sort of fake plan trips that I hope to take at some point (as one does!). So whether you’re looking at planning travel out of a major airport that…

European defense technology company Helsing has denied that Ukraine has suspended new orders for its HX-2 attack drones, rejecting media reports that said Kyiv was holding off after frontline testing setbacks.  Bloomberg reported on January 19, 2026, that a German Defense Ministry presentation and people familiar with the matter indicated that Ukrainian trials identified takeoff issues, missing autonomous features and vulnerability to Russian electronic warfare, prompting a pause in further orders. Germany has financed recent HX-2 deliveries to Ukraine.  In a statement the same day, Helsing said the article did not reflect the situation in Ukraine. The company said it has received concrete requests from more than six units in…

Google Flights is probably the single most useful resource for researching and tracking flight prices. Admittedly this isn’t exactly cutting edge, as Google Flights has been around for years, and hopefully most OMAAT readers already use it.However, I figured I’d share the basics of why I find Google Flights to be valuable, and how I go about using it. As is probably the case for many people, it’s one of the tools that I find most useful for travel planning. Why you should be using Google FlightsPlain and simple, Google Flights should be the first website you visit when you’re…

Tailwind Air, a regional charter airline based in the state of New York, filed for bankruptcy protection at the Virginia Eastern Bankruptcy Court on January 15, 2026.  This decision comes less than two years after the operator wound down its short-lived scheduled seaplane service linking downtown New York to Boston and Washington DC. Since 2024, Tailwind Air had focused on operating on-demand charter services with a small fleet of executive aircraft.  Tailwind Air also had ambitious plans in the electric aircraft space, and, in 2021, it partnered with Airflow, a startup developing an electric regional aircraft which was later acquired…

ROME — Italy’s outlay on the design and development of the tri-nation GCAP fighter has tripled from €6 billion to €18.6 billion — or from $7 billion to $21.8 billion — in the last five years, the country’s defense minister has told parliament.The announcement of the price hike came in a request to parliament to authorize the pay-out which prompted criticism from Italy’s opposition Five Star party.“This is the most expensive program in the history of the Italian military, overtaking the F-35 where €18 billion was spent on 90 aircraft,” Five Star parliamentarians said in a statement.RELATEDItaly is a member…

The United States has filed a civil forfeiture complaint to seize two anti-submarine warfare (ASW) mission crew trainers that were intercepted while being shipped from South Africa to China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced on January 15, 2026.  The trainers were manufactured by the Test Flying Academy of South Africa (TFASA), a private aviation training company that has previously attracted scrutiny in the United States and Europe for its links to PLA training programs.  Modeled on P-8 Poseidon systems  Court filings describe the units as containerized mission crew trainers built under an internal TFASA effort…

SWISS leisure subsidiary Edelweiss Air is in the process of overhauling its long haul fleet, as the airline replaces its Airbus A340-300s with Airbus A350-900s. The airline acquired these A350s from LATAM, and has initially maintained the same interiors, with plans to retrofit the aircraft at a later point.There’s now an interesting update, as the Zurich-based airline has announced details of its new A350 cabins, plus the timeline with which this work will be done. Edelweiss unveils all-new Airbus A350 cabin interiorsEdelweiss has just unveiled the details of the cabins we can expect onboard all of the carrier’s A350s. The…

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) aircraft are set to deploy to Pituffik Space Base in Greenland for a series of long-planned activities, a move that comes as Washington and European allies quietly compete for influence over the island’s security role in the Arctic.  In a statement on January 19, 2026, NORAD said aircraft at Pituffik will operate alongside assets based in the continental United States and Canada to support “various long-planned NORAD activities,” describing the operations as part of the command’s routine, sustained, and dispersed posture across its three regions: Alaska, Canada, and the continental US.  The command stressed that the deployment has been coordinated…