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Air India Group's net loss widened to over Rs 6,000 crore in the April to June quarter, from more than Rs 3,000 crore a year earlier, sources told BusinessLine. Fuel is over half of operating costs, and longer routes to Europe and North America add more. Air India declined comment.
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Air India began seasonal nonstop flights between Mumbai and Toronto on October 25, three times a week until March 26, 2027, on Boeing 777-300ER aircraft with cabins inherited from Etihad. It is the only airline flying the route nonstop this winter. Western India skips the Delhi change.
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Tamil Nadu will cut VAT on aviation turbine fuel from 29% to 16% at Chennai and to 1% at its other airports from November 1. IndiGo is looking at more frequencies and larger aircraft on busy routes, without giving numbers yet. Cheaper fuel tends to find planes quickly.
Read more at The New Indian Express →
Air India has partnered SBI Card and Visa on a credit card combining Maharaja Club loyalty benefits with rewards on everyday spending and travel. CCO Nipun Aggarwal said the aim is to make Maharaja Club the loyalty currency of choice for millions of Indians. Groceries may soon earn legroom.
Read more at The Times of India →
Air India has launched amenity kits and loungewear with Forest Essentials for international flights over eight hours and overnight flights over six. The First Class kit uses Gond artwork by Dwarka Paraste, and kits include a handcrafted Ayurvedic Marma massager. Long haul now comes with a spa department.
Read more at travel.economictimes.indiatimes.com →IndiGo will shift a slate of international flights to Navi Mumbai International Airport early next year, giving the airport a key role in its Middle Eastern network, Aviation Week reports. Navi Mumbai opened as the city's second airport in December 2025. The full piece is for subscribers.
Read more at aviationweek.com →Air India Express has launched flights between Abu Dhabi's Zayed International Airport and Amritsar and resumed direct Goa flights, both from October 25 at three a week. The airline now runs about 160 weekly flights between Abu Dhabi and India, linking 17 Indian cities directly with the emirate.
Read more at indexbox.io →Air India Express started nonstop flights between Visakhapatnam and Bangkok on October 27 from the new Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport at Bhogapuram. Flights leave Tuesdays and Fridays, with returns departing Bangkok at 02:10 local time. Cyclone Arnab forced a cancellation in the first week. The launch went ahead regardless.
Read more at blog.wego.com →Akasa Air began daily nonstop flights between Visakhapatnam and Delhi on October 25, adding another airline to the route, GMR Visakhapatnam International Airport said. Flight QP 1842 leaves Delhi at 5.55 am and lands at 8.20 am, and the return reaches Delhi at 11.30 am. Early risers win again.
Read more at PropNewsTime →Akasa Air inducted its 45th Boeing 737 MAX, a MAX 8-200 registered VT-YBU, at Bangalore airport on Tuesday. That makes 14 new planes this year for the airline, which began flying in August 2022 and took its 40th aircraft in July. The fleet count is outpacing the calendar.
Read more at Rediff Money →Cyclone Arnab led airlines to cancel flights and suspend operations at coastal airports, with Andhra Pradesh worst hit and disruption at Chennai and Kolkata. Visakhapatnam airport suspended operations from Tuesday afternoon, and Vijayawada and Rajahmundry after 7 pm. The India Meteorological Department forecast winds of 125 to 135 kmph.
Read more at Indian Aviation News →A Punjab district consumer commission held IndiGo and Turkish Airlines liable after a 65-year-old passenger with 55% disability was allegedly left without wheelchair assistance at Istanbul airport for about 24 hours. Its October 21 order directs the airlines to jointly pay Rs 50,000 compensation and Rs 10,000 in litigation costs.
Read more at The Times of India →
JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty told Reuters the airline is not discussing a restructuring with creditors or seeking US government support. Bloomberg reported that holders of $2 billion in 2031 bonds and a $742 million loan hired PJT Partners and Akin Gump. JetBlue posted a quarterly net loss of $257 million.
Read more at AeroTime →Lufthansa Group's winning bid for TAP, Portugal's leading airline, comes to EUR 1.025 billion, about $1.13 billion, Law.com reports. Uria Menendez and PLMJ are advising on the deal. Lufthansa's collection of European flag carriers grows by one more.
Read more at law.com →United CEO Scott Kirby told the Cheeky Pint podcast that Starlink ranks just behind schedule when customers choose an airline. United has fitted almost half its planes, including all United Express regional jets, but under 3% of long-haul widebodies. Some travellers now pick smaller jets to get it.
Read more at businessinsider.com →
Sun Country Airlines has cut all flights to 25 destinations after higher than expected pilot attrition following its merger with Allegiant Air, finalised in May. Many pilots reportedly left for Delta, leaving too few to fly the schedule. Cuts include Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Anchorage, mostly in the Northeast and West.
Read more at Simple Flying →
easyJet will begin offering Starlink inflight wifi in the first half of next year, with the rollout across its roughly 275 A320, A320neo and A321neo aircraft finishing by early 2028. Outgoing A319s will not be fitted. Business Traveller asks whether passengers will have to pay for it.
Read more at businesstraveller.com →Frontier Airlines is targeting March 5, 2027 for its delayed first class launch, according to an internal memo reported by Gary Leff of View from the Wing. Retrofits start in late October. The seats are wider but come without complimentary refreshments or recline. Premium, in the ultra low cost sense.
Read more at businesstraveller.com →LOT Polish Airlines and Thai Airways have signed an MoU to codeshare on selected routes across Europe, Asia and Oceania, with the first journeys pencilled in for summer 2027. The Star Alliance partners signed as LOT inaugurated its Warsaw to Bangkok service. Good timing on the paperwork.
Read more at businesstraveller.com →Icelandair and Air China have signed a codeshare agreement, announced October 27, letting customers book across both networks on one ticket with bags checked through. Air China, based in Beijing, operates 972 aircraft. The deal gives Keflavik-based Icelandair access to one of the world's biggest aviation markets.
Read more at AeroTime →Discover Airlines flew its last Airbus A330-200, D-AXGE, from Philadelphia to Frankfurt on October 28, landing at 06:36. The type operated the Lufthansa unit's first commercial flight in July 2021. The 22-year-old jet was delivered to Qatar Airways in 2004. The airline's first aircraft has flown its last.
Read more at AeroTime →Salt Lake City International Airport opened its final seven gates on October 27, finishing a 12-year, $5.1 billion redevelopment. The airport now has 94 gates, four hardstands and 101 concessions after replacing three aging terminals with a central terminal and two linear concourses. Twelve years is the layover nobody booked.
Read more at aviationpros.com →Canada's Competition Bureau is warning that plans by Air Canada and United to expand routes under their transborder joint venture could raise fares in those markets, Aviation Week reports. The Star Alliance partners have run the venture since 2022. The full piece is for subscribers.
Read more at aviationweek.com →Air Caraibes and French Bee plan an all Airbus A350 long haul fleet by 2030, Gery Mortreux, director general of Groupe Dubreuil's aviation division, told Aviation Week. Groupe Dubreuil owns both airlines. The full piece is for subscribers. Fleet simplification remains the favourite hobby of airline planners.
Read more at aviationweek.com →IATA's Global Passenger Survey, released October 28, found travellers enthused about technology and biometrics, with AI becoming a mainstream tool for planning trips, Aviation Week reports. Entry requirements also featured among the main trends. The full piece is for subscribers. The chatbot has joined the family trip planning committee.
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Boeing's 2026 World Air Cargo Forecast expects air cargo traffic to double by 2045, with the freighter fleet growing 67% from 2,395 to 4,010 aircraft. It sees 2,930 freighter deliveries, about two thirds of them converted passenger jets. Roughly 55% would support growth and 45% replace retiring aircraft.
Read more at AeroTime →
Airbus posted lower third quarter earnings as deliveries slipped but kept its production ramp-up targets, FlightGlobal reports. Fewer A330s were handed over in the period as horizontal stabilisers were inspected over a lost tool. The full piece is for subscribers.
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SITA has agreed to acquire Flightscape, CAE's airline operations software business, used daily by more than 90 airlines for flight planning, crew management, operations control and ground coordination. The deal should close in the first half of 2027, subject to approvals. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Read more at AeroTime →
Singapore Airlines will buy up to 4,800 tons of sustainable aviation fuel from Aether Fuels over three years, with deliveries from 2028. It is the first airline customer of Project Beacon, Aether's plant on Pulau Bukom, which turns biomethane and industrial waste gases into jet fuel.
Read more at AeroTime →
Airbus and Air France-KLM have launched Alpha Component Solutions, a joint venture running a worldwide shared pool of components, maintenance, supply chain and repairs for A350 operators. It combines Airbus Flight Hours Services with AFI KLM E&M. Airbus has delivered 737 A350s and holds orders for 1,624 more.
Read more at AeroTime →Atlantic Airways, the Faroe Islands' national airline, has firmly ordered two Airbus A320neos as it moves toward an all A320neo fleet. It currently flies two A320ceos and two A320neos. Chairman Niels Mortensen said the deal is a significant step toward that goal. Small fleet, tidy plan.
Read more at AviTrader →JetZero will receive $5.3 million under the fourth phase of the FAA's CLEEN programme to instrument the engines and nacelles of Jet1, its full-scale blended wing body demonstrator. Sensors will record airflow at the inlet and fan exit. First flight is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2027.
Read more at AeroTime →Rolls-Royce's plan to return to single aisle engines with a 30,000 lb class geared UltraFan has won a jointly funded research programme with the UK government, Aviation Week reports. FlightGlobal values the 10-year framework at GBP 2.5 billion. The full pieces are for subscribers.
Read more at aviationweek.com →Air India has broken ground on a nine-acre MRO hangar at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, designed to hold one widebody and one narrowbody at once. CEO Tewolde Gebremariam attended. The airline says it will build in-house maintenance capability and improve fleet reliability at its largest hub.
Read more at bangladeshmonitor.com.bd →Southwest Airlines, launch customer for the Boeing 737 MAX 7, will take its first aircraft in December, FlightGlobal reports. The narrowbody was certificated in August. The full piece is for subscribers. The longest wait in the Southwest boarding process may finally be ending.
Read more at FlightGlobal →ST Engineering has secured its first heavy maintenance contract for the Airbus A220 from an unnamed Asia-Pacific airline. Aviation Week Fleet Discovery data shows 21 A220s in service in the region and 179 on order. The company booked SG$1.4 billion in commercial aerospace orders in the third quarter.
Read more at aviationweek.com →DTA Aircraft has 30 reservations for its two-seat JP1 hybrid-electric multicopter, four taken at NBAA-BACE. Each needs a $12,000 deposit, $10,000 refundable, toward a $385,000 price. Crewed flight tests are planned in Scottsdale next year, with the first 50 aircraft due in 2028.
Read more at ainonline.com →Zero Petroleum has validated that its process for making sustainable aviation fuel from CO2 and green hydrogen produces a 100% replica of fossil Jet A-1, Aviation Week reports. The fuel came from its Plant Zero 1 research site near Oxford. The full piece is for subscribers.
Read more at aviationweek.com →Photos on social media since October 26 appear to show a COMAC CE-25A electric aircraft demonstrator on an airfield, AeroTime reports, though it could not verify them. COMAC unveiled the 19-seat all-electric commuter concept in 2023 with a stated range of 400 to 600 km. Reddit has opinions.
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IndiGo flight 6E-748 from Guwahati to Silchar carried out a high-speed rejected take-off on Wednesday at 12.30 pm after a reported technical issue, The Times of India reports. More than 150 passengers were on board. The captain announced the reason to passengers after the aircraft stopped.
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Air India flight AI640 from Chennai carried out a missed approach at Mumbai on Monday and diverted to Navi Mumbai, landing 25 minutes later, according to Flightradar24 data. Sources said an earlier IndiGo arrival reported a bird hit, prompting a runway inspection. The aircraft reached Mumbai about six hours later.
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The FAA finalised an order protecting information voluntarily submitted through the US Aviation Safety Team from public disclosure. It covers safety reports, risk assessments, meeting records and progress on recommended improvements. The team brings together groups including the Commercial Aviation Safety Team and the Drone Safety Team.
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Police are investigating after a 40-year-old passenger allegedly pressed the emergency exit button as an IndiGo flight from Bengaluru slowed on the runway at Chennai on Tuesday evening. The flight carried 142 passengers. An alarm sounded in the cockpit and airline security officials questioned the passenger.
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A WestJet Boeing 737 MAX 8 collided with a catering truck at Toronto Pearson on Tuesday evening while it was being towed, the airline and authorities said. Global News reports nobody was injured and no passengers or crew were on board. The extent of the damage is not yet clear.
Read more at Simple Flying →The Chicago Department of Aviation has closed Midway's 6,445-foot Runway 4R/22L to repair the engineered materials arresting system at the departure end of 22L, damaged by recent aircraft activity including jet blast. EMAS uses crushable material to stop overrunning aircraft. Reopening is expected on November 13.
Read more at ainonline.com →The FAA plans to deploy Mobile Clearance in early 2027, letting general aviation pilots request and receive IFR departure clearances by text on personal devices instead of by voice with the tower. It mimics the CPDLC departure clearance used by airliners and will be available through ForeFlight and Garmin.
Read more at aviationweek.com →FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said at NBAA-BACE the agency can continue discussing its decision to revoke single-pilot exemptions for older Cessna Citation light jets, conceding it could have worked better with industry. He said the decision was based on years of data. The revocation took effect on September 29.
Read more at ainonline.com →The US Navy recorded 16 Class A aviation mishaps in fiscal 2026, the most since fiscal 2014, according to data reported by USNI News. Two involved unmanned aircraft. Of the 14 involving manned aircraft, 11 were flight mishaps and three were on the ground. Afloat mishaps also peaked.
Read more at avweb.com →Heathrow uses Pairwise, an addition to the Intelligent Approach arrivals tool built by NATS and Leidos, to separate landing aircraft by individual type rather than broad weight categories. Analysis shows gains in landing rates, delays and emissions, as controllers can safely reduce separation between some aircraft pairs, Aviation Week reports.
Read more at aviationweek.com →ACI Asia-Pacific and Middle East, representing over 600 airports, presented recommendations at the 8th ICAO MID DGCA Meeting in Doha from October 26 to 28. They covered airport security, business continuity, restoring air connectivity, infrastructure development and climate action, alongside calls for practical policy measures after regional disruptions.
Read more at aci-asiapac.aero →Zipline has introduced onboard sound modelling that adjusts its drones' flight paths to fly more quietly, as public concern grows over delivery drone noise, Aviation Week reports. Operators are preparing to scale up across the US once the FAA publishes new rules. The full piece is for subscribers.
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Akasa Air will raise pilots' fixed pay and hourly payouts by up to 20% from January 2027, PTI reports. Guaranteed monthly flying hours rise to 50, minimum annual leave to 42 days, and new rosters include a 25/9 pattern. Captain Sanket Limaye briefed pilots. Akasa did not comment.
Read more at The Economic Times →
The Federation of Indian Pilots has asked the civil aviation ministry to withdraw DGCA's decision extending temporary relaxations under the revised flight duty time rules until March 31, 2027, five months past the October 31 deadline. The federation says repeated extensions could weaken safeguards against pilot fatigue.
Read more at Hotelier Buzz →The UAE has awarded the First Class Order of Zayed II to Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar and members of the flydubai crew for their response to a cockpit emergency on Flight FZ1073 on September 30. The incident threatened the safety of more than 170 people on board.
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Boeing's 2026 Pilot and Technician Outlook forecasts demand for 67,000 new pilots in the Middle East between 2026 and 2045, plus 65,000 maintenance technicians and 104,000 cabin crew. Globally it sees 674,000 pilots and 728,000 technicians needed. These are long-term demand estimates, not current vacancies.
Read more at middle-east-online.com →
Air India Commander Daveshwar Sharma told passengers on a Mumbai to Delhi Boeing 777 that it was the final flight of his career after more than 40 years in aviation, including over two decades in the Indian Air Force. Content creator Aatmaj Kapoor shared the moment online.
Read more at Curly Tales →Monocle visits the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics, a trade school that sells itself on rigour as airlines run short of maintenance technicians. McKinsey estimates the global shortfall could reach about 22,000 by the end of 2026 and almost triple by 2029. The school is working to close that gap.
Read more at Monocle →Texas Christian University celebrated its new professional aviation degree on October 27, with leaders from American, Southwest and DFW Airport saying industry growth depends on finding the right people. The bachelor's offers an aviation studies minor and an aviation administration concentration. American CEO Robert Isom called aviation a people-serving-people business.
Read more at fortworthreport.org →Kansas State University Salina will hold a free Aviation Explorer Day on November 14 for students aged 16 and older interested in pilot training, aviation maintenance, management and uncrewed aircraft systems. Visitors get information sessions, meet faculty and alumni, and tour campus aviation facilities and residence halls.
Read more at generalaviationnews.com →Cadet pilot programmes first, then aviation and aerospace roles, checked today. Every listing links to the original page. The medical is your own affair.
Air shows and aviation conferences coming up, each checked against its own page this morning. Arrive early, out of habit.
Flight, propulsion and air-traffic research that landed recently. Preprints say so on the card. Findings stay where the source put them.
Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider the coordination of autonomous vehicles at unsignalized intersections, where trajectory planning and crossing-order decisions are intrinsically coupled, thereby making their simultaneous optimization intractable in practice. To this end, we propose a heuristic based on. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Announce Type: new Abstract: In this study, a regularized lattice Boltzmann method is proposed for solid-liquid phase-change simulations. The governing total-enthalpy equation is solved within a regularized lattice Boltzmann (RLB) framework, which enables accurate tracking of the solid-liquid interface while. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes a hybrid channel simulation framework that combines site-specific ray tracing (RT) with 3GPP-compliant statistical channel simulation for non-terrestrial networks (NTNs). The proposed approach uses RT to generate dominant propagation paths and augments them. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Announce Type: new Abstract: Laboratory experiments in a wave flume investigated the attenuation of shoaling extreme waves by artificial salt marshes placed immediately before an abrupt depth transition. Increasing vegetation density systematically reduced the excess kurtosis of the surface elevation. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Announce Type: new Abstract: Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs), such as Network Topology Optimization (NTO), Dynamic Line Rating (DLR), and Variable Impedance Devices (VIDs) are increasingly deployed in power transmission grids to address congestion and improve grid utilization. However, their growing. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Announce Type: new Abstract: We develop a continuum-thermodynamic model for chemically reacting, multi-velocity and multi-temperature fluid mixtures. Partial balances of mass, momentum and total energy are closed using a single entropy density depending jointly on the constituent mass and nonkinetic. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cutting and shuffling (CS) rearranges fluid without stretching, but homogenisation requires diffusion (D), this interaction is not well understood. We show that CSD is a coarsening process, with scale $\bar\ell=L(n_c\mathrm{Pe}/2)^{-1/3}$ rather than the Batchelor scale, and. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Announce Type: new Abstract: The prediction of transition remains challenging because the receptivity amplitude is usually prescribed rather than measured. This work uses Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) to study an unforced Mach 6 nitrogen boundary layer over a 120. Preprint, not peer reviewed.
Talks on flying and aerospace. Each one was still up on YouTube this morning.
Mentour Pilot, 44 min.
Mentour Pilot, 1h 01m.
This One Was UNACCEPTABLE!! | The Infuriating Story Of Bordeaux. From Mentour Pilot, 37 min.
Mentour Pilot, 47 min.
Mentour Pilot, 47 min.