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The CEO of Lufthansa Airlines, Jens Ritter, has admitted that the latest strike by staff “really hurts,” coming as it does “right in the middle of the Easter return travel weekend”. On April 10, 2026, Lufthansa and Lufthansa CityLine flight attendants, represented by the Independent Flight Attendants’ Organization (UFO), commenced strike action over working conditions. According to Tagesschau, the German Airports Association (ADV) believes that more than 520 flights will be cancelled by the end of the day, causing disruptions to the travel plans of thousands of customers. The disruptions center on Lufthansa flights leaving Frankfurt and Munich, plus Hamburg,…

PARIS — More than two dozen Ukrainian defense companies traveled to Paris this week to meet with French counterparts, laying the groundwork for co-production deals in France and seeking to bolster integration with the European defense-industrial base.French defense firms have been slow to set up joint companies with Ukrainian partners, with just one joint venture created so far, compared to 11 for Germany and five for Spain, said Ihor Fedirko, the chief executive officer of the Ukrainian Council of Defence Industry. He was speaking at a press briefing late Wednesday after a day of meetings organized with French land defense…

A Cirrus SR-20 training aircraft belonging to the French Air and Space Force crashed on the morning of April 10, 2026, during a low-altitude training flight in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department of southern France. Both crew members, an instructor and a student pilot, survived with injuries. The French Ministry of the Armed Forces said in a statement that the aircraft went down at approximately 9:30 a.m. local time in an uninhabited area near Montagne de Lure. The aircraft had departed from Base Aérienne 701 at Salon-de-Provence, home to the École de l’Air et de l’Espace, France’s military aviation academy. Both crew…

Iranian forces were hunting for a missing U.S. pilot on Saturday from one of two warplanes downed over Iran and the Gulf, raising the stakes for Washington as the war entered its sixth week with scant prospect of peace talks in sight.The incidents show the risks still facing U.S. and Israeli aircraft over Iran, despite assertions by President Donald Trump and his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that U.S. forces had total control of the skies.The prospect of a U.S. service member alive and on the run in Iran comes days after Trump threatened to bomb Iran “back to the Stone…

Airbus is celebrating delivery of the 500th Airbus A220 aircraft, a day after publishing March results that show a decisive ramp up in operations. On April 10, 2026, Airbus confirmed that 60 commercial aircraft had been delivered during March 2026, after delivering only 54 across January and February this year. The European planemaker is targeting around 870 deliveries in 2026, and with the first quarter complete that total currently stands at 114 – equal to 13.1%. In March 2025, Airbus announced that 71 new aircraft had been delivered to customers, so deliveries this year still remain somewhat sluggish, despite last…

U.S. special forces rescued a downed airman in Iran in a complex operation that averted a potential crisis for President Donald Trump, as the war entered its sixth week with little sign of progress in diplomatic efforts for a resolution.Trump announced the rescue in the early hours of Sunday in a social media post that described the operation, in a mountainous area of Iran, as “one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History.”The airman, the weapons officer of an F-15 jet shot down on Friday, was wounded but “will be just fine,” Trump said in a…

American Airlines is aiming to restart US flights to Venezuela by the end of April 2026, subject to government approval and ongoing preparations. On April 9, 2026, American Airlines announced that staff are currently working with both US and Venezuelan governments to ensure the resumption of services for the first time in over six years. The airline plans to offer daily nonstop service between Miami International Airport (MIA) and Venezuela’s capital Caracas, through its regional subsidiary carrier Envoy Air. The intention is for Envoy Air’s Embraer 175 aircraft to begin operations to Venezuela as soon as April 30, 2026. “American…

LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Friday that he discussed military capabilities and the logistics of moving vessels though the Strait of Hormuz when he spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump a day earlier.“We’ve been pulling together a coalition of countries … working on a political, diplomatic plan, but also looking at military capabilities and … the logistics of actually moving vessels through the Strait,” Starmer said during his visit to the Gulf.“That was the focus of the discussion last night – reflection on what I’ve been discussing here, but also that focus on a practical plan…

Finland’s new F-35A Lightning II fighters will arrive with fewer capabilities than originally agreed in the country’s procurement deal, and the Finnish Air Force will have to carry out significant upgrades at its own expense, the head of Finland’s F-35 program told Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat in an article published on April 9, 2026.  The issue stems from persistent delays to the F-35’s Block 4 upgrade, a sweeping modernization of the aircraft’s software, sensors and weapons systems that Lockheed Martin originally claimed would include more than 75 major new capabilities. In September 2025, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimated that Block 4 would not be completed…

After two decades of searching for a new grenade launcher, the U.S. Army appears to be zeroing in on a choice. The Army is seeking prototypes for the Precision Grenadier System, which will replace the M203 and M320 grenade launchers. In a nod to modern battlefield conditions, the PGS will incorporate drone-killing tech in addition to offering troops the capability to engage targets behind defilade such as walls.The PGS “will be a man-portable, target engagement system that enables the squad to organically incapacitate enemy personnel targets in defilade, in close quarters battle and unmanned aerial systems with quick and precise…