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The Boeing 737 MAX family comes in four variants, or four and a half if the MAX 8-200 is included. The MAX 8 replaces the popular Boeing 737-800 and is one of the best-selling aircraft on the market today. To meet the requirements of Europe’s ultra-low-cost carrier, Ryanair, Boeing modified the MAX 8 to give it extra seating. Ryanair wanted the aircraft to be extra-high-density, as it seeks to bring down the price per seat as much as possible. The type is mostly operated by Ryanair and its subsidiaries (including Buzz, and Malta Air), although it has since been ordered…

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is the most advanced fighter jet flying today. It boasts the world’s greatest production numbers, with the asterisk that there are high levels of uncertainty around those of Chinese jets. This high level of production has kept the per-unit flyaway costs low compared with other fourth-generation fighter jets currently in production. The F-35 is the most heavily reported jet in the media, which leads to an information bias where the public is informed about its delays, cost overruns, and crashes, but not informed to the same degree about similar issues in other families of…

British Airways is reportedly planning to deploy the Airbus A350-1000 on its London Heathrow to Nashville route, replacing the Boeing 777-200ER currently assigned. Ishrion Aviation is reporting on X that the change will occur on March 29, 2026, and the changes appear to be throughout the entirety of the summer season. British Airways is growing its A350-1000 fleet, and it also has a substantial number of Boeing 787-10s and 777-9s on order. The Boeing 777-200ER is the backbone of the British Airways fleet, but it’s slowly becoming sidelined in favor of more modern widebody airliners. Not only are the newer…

This past Saturday, October 11, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 was towed directly into an Airbus A321 at Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ). Video shows the driver trying to “shoot the gap” between two parked planes, as if they forgot that they were towing a plane themselves. The two jets were both owned by Air Canada (AC). From the video angle, it appears that the wingtip of the 737 MAX impacted the horizontal stabilizer of the A321 with visible damage apparent afterward, according to Flying Report. Air Canada’s Mauled Jetliners Credit: Shutterstock The Airbus A321 is an 18-year-old jet registered as…

Singapore’s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday introducing a fixed levy on departing flights to cut emissions and support the use of sustainable aviation fuel by airlines. The levy will be paid to the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, which will procure and manage sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), according to Senior Minister of State for […] source

Amid a push to put more small drones in the hands of soldiers across the force, the U.S. Army is learning that there’s a ceiling to the number of unmanned systems that units can handle. Col. Dave Lamborn, commander of 2nd Mobile Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, out of Hawaii, told a panel during the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting in Washington that in division testing, the Army’s smallest units could be overtasked by the challenge of operating drones on top of all their conventional duties.“I can tell you that there is certainly an upper level of useful number…

Air travel is more connected than ever, and a few airports sit right at the center of it all. A handful of airports serve as the beating hearts of international travel, vast, intricate networks where the world’s air routes converge. Each year, the OAG Megahubs Index reveals which airports offer the highest number of possible connections between inbound and outbound flights within a six-hour window, a powerful measure of how well cities and their national carriers are linked to the rest of the world. These rankings not only highlight aviation excellence but also reflect broader trends in trade, tourism, and…

IBA Group Chief Economist Stuart Hatcher will join Cargo Facts Symposium 2025 for the panel discussion “Type Talk 747: Will demand for 747s remain high?” on Friday, Oct. 24, at 9:05 a.m. (GMT -5). The 31st annual Cargo Facts Symposium will take place Oct. 22-24 at the Grand Hyatt in Nashville, Tenn., where air cargo executives and market influencers in the industry will gather to assess the latest trends and developments in the freighter sector, while sharing their insights to project the market’s growth trajectory. View the full event agenda. Hatcher, who has been with IBA Group for 20 years,…

For decades, the defense trade media has been a trusted source of news and insight about Defense Department programs, budgets, and strategy. Ethical, accurate, and timely reporting makes that possible. The public, industry, and indeed the department itself benefit from granting credentialed defense reporters access to unclassified areas in the Pentagon and from the trust engendered by that access.The Pentagon has been seeking to impose unprecedented restrictions on journalists’ ability to cover the military for several months. Having restricted where unescorted media may go in the Pentagon—such that even visiting the public affairs offices of the military services now requires…

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has launched commercial operations with two Ultra MK1 drones from Windracers. UAF began operating flights with the two units on Oct. 1 from Nenana Municipal Airport (ENN) on behalf of the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI), Windracers told Cargo Facts. UAF had repositioned the drones to Fairbanks […] source