FL Technics Indonesia has opened a new aircraft painting facility at its Denpasar, Bali base, marking an expansion of its MRO capabilities as demand for regional maintenance services continues to grow. The new facility has already completed its first project, repainting the third Boeing 737-400F freighter for Philippine cargo carrier Skyway Airlines. Following completion, the […]
Aviation aftermarket parts distributor Seattle Aviation Solutions (SAS) has acquired a Dassault Falcon 900EX for teardown, with its components set to be released to buyers across the global aftermarket. The aircraft (S/N 045, N30HQ) has accumulated 14,981.4 total airframe hours and 11,122 landings as of October 2024. According to SAS, it was operated by a single […]
Independent aircraft component parts, repair and supply chain solutions provider, AJW Group, has appointed Louis Philippe Mallette as the chief executive of AJW Technique, the group’s MRO facility located in Montreal, Canada. Mallette will lead the strategic and operational direction of AJW Technique whilst working in close collaboration with Clyde Buntrock, chief executive of AJW […]
The Pakistan Airports Authority has confirmed that search teams have found and identified wreckage belonging to the missing K2 Airways Boeing 737 freighter. As seen above, pieces of the aircraft were found in the sea 53 NM (98 km) to the south of the Pakistani coastal town of Ormara. The town is located to the […]
Global air cargo is well known for its use of older, former passenger aircraft, but today, the industry that has been built by these icons of the past is moving toward a far more modern future. What has become abundantly clear is that the very vehicle designed to spearhead this change is still in waiting, […]
Pilots love flying Airbus aircraft because of the incredible commonality across its jets. For the Airbus A320, A330, A350, and A380, pilots use the same harmonized panel layouts, sidestick controls, near-identical ECAM logic, and standardized FMS. That means narrowbody Airbus pilots can quickly qualify to fly other jets built by the manufacturer. Pilots can use […]
Boeing appears to have updated the publicly available range figures for its forthcoming series of 777X widebody twinjets. Indeed, the figures for both the 777-8 and 777-9 models are now more than 700 NM (1 NM = 1.85 km) higher than those that had previously been listed by the planemaker. The figures for the smaller […]
![Only 62% Full: Aer Lingus’ 10 Surprisingly Empty US Routes From Dublin Airport [Map]](https://static0.simpleflyingimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/shutterstock_2178392341-16_9-1.jpg "Only 62% Full: Aer Lingus’ 10 Surprisingly Empty US Routes From Dublin Airport [Map]")
Aer Lingus is the sixth-largest European operator to the US. In the 12 months to March 2026, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) shows that nearly 2.8 million round-trip passengers were transported. Only British Airways, Lufthansa, Air France, Turkish Airlines (whose hub is on the European side of the Bosphorus Strait), and Virgin Atlantic had […]
Ryanair is the epitome of a low-cost airline: cheap fares and the no-frills experience that goes with them. Indeed, the carrier’s offering centers around the idea that travel does not have to break the bank if passengers are willing to forgo almost any element of comfort. But this focus on budget travel can often draw […]
When the United States Air Force replaces the Boeing B-52’s eight engines under the Commercial Engine Replacement Program, the resulting aircraft, the B-52J, will have 30% better fuel efficiency, a meaningfully extended unrefueled range, and a maintenance burden so reduced that it will cost significantly less per flight hour to operate than the Rockwell B-1 […]