The Rule That Keeps Not Starting: Washington Pushes Airline Wheelchair Protections to 2027
The US Department of Transportation has again postponed enforcement of the core provisions of its 2024 wheelchair rule, this time to April 30, 2027. Two years after it was written, the most consequential passenger-experience regulation of the decade still has no teeth.
22 August 2026The Bag Found Itself: How Passenger-Owned Trackers Rewrote the Lost-Luggage Business
Turbulence Is Now an ICAO Risk Category. The People It Injures Are Mostly Crew.
The 2026-2028 Global Aviation Safety Plan lists turbulence encounters among its global risk categories for the first time. US accident data shows who actually gets hurt: flight attendants, four times more often than passengers.
22 August 2026No Longer Exceptional: Europe Rewrites the Rulebook on GPS Spoofing
Schiphol Lost Its Flight Cap in Court. The Noise Fell Anyway.
A Dutch court annulled the 478,000-movement ceiling at Europe's third-busiest hub in March. Five months later, the airport's own evaluation shows noise exposure falling faster than the government forecast — because of pricing, not quotas.
22 August 2026The Freight Gold Rush: Why the World's Cargo Hubs Are Building Again
From Copper Wire to Surface Radar: Inside the FAA's Ground-Level Modernization Sprint
Twenty-Two Hours to London: Qantas Bets the Balance Sheet on the World's Longest Flight
A modified Airbus A350 has already flown Melbourne to Toulouse in 24 hours and 24 minutes. Now Qantas has to prove that a 238-seat aeroplane can pay for itself on the route no one else wants to fly.
22 August 2026Air Cargo's War Premium Is Unwinding, and Peak Season Won't Refill It
Who Gets to Own the Skies? India's Airport-Airline Ownership Fight Splits the Industry
Embraer's Seventh Straight Record: How Brazil's Planemaker Won the Gap Between Airbus and Boeing
A US$34.5 billion backlog, an E2 programme past 500 firm orders and a defence book growing 42 per cent. Embraer's problem is no longer demand — it is building fast enough to matter.
22 August 2026