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In early 2024, Southwest Airlines announced plans to refresh its cabin interiors as of 2025. The funny thing is that this announcement came before the airline decided to change everything else, from introducing extra legroom seats and assigned seating, to charging for checked bags.Anyway, Southwest’s first plane with the new style interiors has just been delivered, so we finally have our first look at this… Southwest unveils new cabin interiors with RECARO seatsSouthwest has just taken delivery of its first aircraft with new style cabin interiors, which will be installed on all newly delivered Boeing 737 MAX aircraft going forward.…
Like other northern carriers, Icelandair will switch to winter schedules on Sunday, October 26. This is based on IATA slot seasons. The day before, it’ll launch flights from its Keflavik hub to Miami. Timed at up to 8h 40m, it will become the airline’s new longest service. I’m sure it’ll be in my Weekly Routes article (see the most recent edition). It will be the second time the South Florida city has ever had scheduled passenger flights to Iceland. According to Cirium Diio data, they first existed in 2017/2018, when the now-defunct WOW Air served it aboard its Airbus A330-300s.…
Against the backdrop of MRO Europe 2025 in London, BAE Systems introduced a new title for its commercial avionics repair and support segment. On October 15, 2025, Jack Stevens, the Vice President and General Manager of Controls and Avionics Solutions at BAE Systems, introduced Horizon Solutions Aftermarket Services and Support. BAE Systems said that the new name reflects its “commitment to innovation and growth to meet the industry’s evolving demands”. Under the new product, BAE Systems customers can now take advantage of an expanded catalog that includes: Flexible trade-in programs that make updates or replacements easier Overhaul offerings that extend…
ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. — The U.S. Army is racing to turn its aging organic industrial base into a modern drone factory network — and learning just how hard it is to move from prototypes to mass production. “We know how to manufacture things. There’s not a problem with that, but UAS, they are different,” Lt. Gen. Christopher Mohan, acting commander of Materiel Command, told Defense News in a recent interview. “We can do the wiring harnesses. We could do some of the microelectronics, but either we don’t have the capability, such as the brushless motors, and we have to…
American Airlines has revealed that it will soon be introducing a special livery aircraft to celebrate its centennial, and my goodness, it sure is a distinctive plane! American’s plans eye-catching 100th anniversary livery American is celebrating its centennial in 2026, and it’s normal for airlines to introduce a special livery on an aircraft to celebrate the occasion. American has just unveiled that it plans to introduce a special livery on a Boeing 777-300ER, and it should enter service as of November 2025. American’s special centennial livery Boeing 777 The special “Flagship” livery will be on the plane with the registration…
Across Canada, the typical professional pilot earns just over six figures on average, with a wide range of salaries at both the high and low ends. Canada’s pay is not low by international standards, but pales in comparison to the United States just across the border, which is the highest in the world. 2024 nearly witnessed a strike by 5,000 unionized pilots before Air Canada offered a 20% immediate raise followed by annual increases, according to Reuters. The final deal resulted in a 42% salary hike over four years, as reported by CBC. The nations’ largest carriers suffer from a…
High Speed Taxiway A long radius taxiway designed and provided with lighting or marking to define the path of aircraft, traveling at high speed (up to 60 knots), from the runway center to a point on the center of a taxiway. Also referred to as long radius exit or turn-off taxiway. The high speed taxiway is designed to expedite aircraft turning off the runway after landing, thus reducing runway occupancy time.
“If we have a continual small subset of controllers that don’t show up to work… they’re the problem children… We need more controllers, but we need the best and the brightest, the dedicated controllers, and if we have some on our staff that aren’t dedicated like we need, we’re going to let them go.” Source: A statement from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as the government shutdown drags into the double digits, air traffic control facilities across the US are reporting growing staff shortages… Eleven major airspace sectors were short on controllers to close out October 9, including Chicago O’Hare, Newark,…
From 2022 (YouTube Edition): Before They’re All Gone… Humankind has been messing about in airplanes for almost 120-years. In that time, thousands of aircraft representing innumerable technologies, design philosophies, and aspirations both noble and contemptible have been built and flown. Airshows—the good ones—are lenses into aviation’s past. Events like AirVenture, Sun ‘n Fun, and Frontiers in Flight afford modern audiences glimpses of aircraft that shaped the world in war, and brought it together in peace.
Aero Linx: National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) NAAA provides networking, educational, government relations, public relations, recruiting and informational services to its members and the aerial application industry as a whole. NAAA works with its partner organization, the National Agricultural Aviation Research & Education Foundation (NAAREF), to provide research and educational programs focused on enhancing the efficacy, security and safety of aerial application. Additionally, NAAA performs public outreach on the industry’s behalf, communicating the importance of aerial application to agriculture, forestry and the public welfare to the public.