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Apollo Global Management appeared to pull off something remarkably straightforward this week: the New York-based investment giant agreed to buy easyJet for £5.7 billion ($7.7 billion), beating out fellow US investor Castlelake to one of Europe’s largest low-cost airlines. Reuters reports that Apollo’s £7.15-per-share offer represented an 81% premium to easyJet’s closing price before investor […]

GE Aerospace and Rolls-Royce (RR) currently dominate the large widebody engine market, although RR also wants to challenge GE once again in the massive narrowbody engine market. These are two of the largest Original Engine Manufacturer giants in the commercial sector, along with Pratt & Whitney and Safran.

Qatar Airways has just added the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner to its fleet of 150 Starlink-equipped aircraft, the carrier confirmed on Thursday. Over half of the airline’s 787s have the technology and the rollout across its entire 787 fleet is expected to be completed by the end of this year. That means all passengers flying on […]

A first-year regional airline first officer in the United States can now earn around $90 to $110 for each flight hour under a contract. On the other end, a senior widebody captain at a major airline can earn more than $465 for the same hour of work. The difference is striking, but the path between […]

An Australian national, Thomas Bingham, has pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor for an assault on a federal officer. He was alleged to have committed the assault on a Transport Security Administration (TSA) officer at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in March 2026. Sentencing has been set for September 18. US Magistrate Judge Charles […]

While the skies of the United Kingdom are peaceful almost every single day of the year, that doesn’t mean that the Royal Air Force is resting on its laurels. Quick Reaction Alert fighter jets have only scrambled a handful of times in the past year to defend the UK’s airspace, but the operational tempo is […]

Frontier Airlines spent much of 2025 transforming Atlanta into one of the most important airports in its network. By December, the ultra-low-cost carrier was advertising 61 nonstop destinations from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), having added domestic, Caribbean, Mexican and Central American routes at a rapid pace. Within months, Atlanta became the busiest airport in […]

The Airbus A321XLR is one of the most impactful new airliners on sale, as it’s a narrowbody airliner designed specifically for long-distance flights. While the Boeing 757-200 was prominently used on some long-haul routes in the past, this was never its original intended role, whereas the A321XLR uses the venerable A321neo platform and adds improvements […]

For the four and a half years that have elapsed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, an Antonov An-124 cargo jet has been stuck at Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ). The huge aircraft belongs to the Russian charter and airfreight specialist Volga-Dnepr Airlines, and it was seized upon its arrival in Canada after the […]