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ROME — Italy is ready to use an EU-devised accounting trick to help boost its defense budget by €12 billion, or $14 billion, as it tries to meet tough new NATO spending targets.The plan devised in Brussels last year allows EU member states to exempt defense spending when they calculate annual deficit spending, allowing them to raise defense budgets without breaking EU deficit rules.The EU normally requires member states to keep their budget deficit below 3% of GDP or face infraction procedures.An Italian government source told Defense News the so-called NationalEscape Clause (NEC), if used, could result in Italy adding…

There’s a new most flown commercial jet in the world, and it’s taking over that title from the Boeing 737… Airbus A320 series surpasses 12,260 deliveries since launch For just about as long as I’ve been alive, the Boeing 737 family of aircraft has been the most popular commercial aircraft in service. Obviously the Airbus A320 family is a major competitor to this, but Boeing has had a roughly two-decade head start on Airbus. While the Boeing 737 entered commercial service in 1968, the Airbus A320 only entered commercial service in 1988. Despite the late start, there’s a pretty incredible…

Simple Flying has obtained data from Cirium, revealing all the routes that Emirates will fly using its very high-capacity A380 this winter. It includes all flights from October 1, 2025, to January 30, 2026. This aircraft flies with only two classes: economy and business class. As a result, it has an extremely high number of seats available at 615, of which just 58 are business class. In this article, we dive into Cirium’s data to reveal the highest and lowest frequency routes that Emirates operates using this unique A380 configuration. We then delve into how Emirates may seek to achieve…

US President Donald J. Trump has announced from the Oval Office that he has made the decision to provide BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Cruise Missiles (TLAMs) to Ukraine, while stressing that he still has questions about how they will be used and what Russian targets Kyiv plans to strike. “I sort of made a decision pretty much,” Trump said when asked by reporters in the Oval Office if he had decided to supply Tomahawks to Ukraine. “I think I want to find out what they are doing with them. Where they are sending them, I guess I will have to…

Fuses play an important role in electrical systems. Consisting of a small conductive core encapsulated in a nonconductive material, they protect electrical devices from overcurrent. You can find fuses in homes, buildings, cars, appliances, solar panels, high-voltage systems and even airplanes. Here’s everything you need to know about aircraft fuses. Why Airplanes Have Fuses Airplanes have fuses for the same reason other electrical systems have fuses: to protect against overcurrent. A typical airplane has hundreds if not thousands of electrical devices, including radios, GPS, flight control systems, cockpit displays, cabin lights and more. If overcurrent occurs, these devices may become…

American Airlines will be removing metal carry-on bag sizers from airport gates from October 6, 2025, to help the airline streamline boarding. Size rules are not actually going to change, as passengers will still be offered one standard carry-on bag alongside a personal item. Gate agents are going to be using discretion rather than forcing bags into sizers at the door. Suitcases will be stored in the lobby and check-in areas, where oversized bags will be flagged by airline personnel. This is a move that follows a similar strategy to United Airlines, which did so as part of a set…

IndiGo has announced plans to launch direct, daily flights between Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport (BOM) and London-Heathrow Airport (LHR) from October 26, 2025.   India’s largest carrier introduced its Manchester service in July 2025. In August 2025, it announced that London-Heathrow would be next.  However, IndiGo has left customers guessing as to exactly where in India the Heathrow service would operate from.   On October 6, 2025, IndiGo confirmed that the flights will be operated using Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners on wet/damp lease from Norse Atlantic Airways, which include both economy class seating and its business product, IndiGoStretch.  IndiGo described its latest route…

Air France-KLM’s stock has surged exceptionally this year, with the airline offering returns to investors exceeding nearly 40%. Financial performance remains volatile, with losses over the last 3-5 years, and prices falling more than 12% over the course of the past month. Many industry analysts have argued that the company is highly undervalued, even in the wake of the company’s continued outperformance in premium markets. There are some more important questions to be answered regarding the airline’s impressive financial results. A carrier that is looking to continue establishing its footholds on key global routes, Air France and KLM have both…

Oct. 7, 2025, (c) Leeham News: Boeing’s decline into the existential crisis that befell the company in March 2019 was decades in the making. The 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas Corp. is pegged as the tripping point. But the foundation pre-dated the merger. In Scott Hamilton’s new book, The Rise and Fall of Boeing, and the Way Back, takes a deep dive into Boeing’s rise from its 1916 birth through the piston era and the dawn of the jet age, when Boeing’s “family” approach to airplanes thrust it past the Douglas Aircraft Co., despite nearly losing its advantage. After peaking…

On Friday, October 3, the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO) rejected a proposal by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to raise the mandatory retirement age for commercial airline pilots. The proposal, debated during ICAO’s 42nd General Assembly in Montreal, sought to extend the global age limit for multi-crew international operations from 65 to 67. In the early years of commercial aviation, the mandatory retirement age was set as low as 45 before being raised to 60 in the 1940s. It later increased to 65 in 2006 under updated ICAO standards. IATA had argued that allowing pilots to continue…