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eVTOL   Archer Aviation  
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Archer begins ‘No Roads’ eVTOL tour with piloted Midnight roundtrip between Salinas and Hollister

Archer Aviation’s all-electric Midnight aircraft completed a piloted city-to-city roundtrip between Salinas Municipal Airport and Hollister Municipal Airport in California, launching the company’s “No Roads” flight tour. The demonstration is part of ongoing testing ahead of planned operations in additional U.S. markets.

Also: Urban Air Mobility News and aerospacemanufacturinganddesign.com
2026-09-08T05:29:33.651928-07:00
ATC   PaxEx   Airports   Aviation Safety & Regulation   Airport Infrastructure & Air Traffic Management  
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Bloomberg • Kate Duffy

UK Flight Chaos Spills Into Second Day After Tech Outage

By Bloomberg: Air travelers in the UK faced a second day of severe disruptions after a technical glitch at a key node forced Heathrow Airport and other hubs to cancel hundreds of flights, adding to similar incidents in recent years that have tested the resilience of the country’s aviation infrastructure.

Also: The Independent and The Independent
2026-09-09T02:07:38.698026-07:00
MRO   Discover Airlines   Sustainability & Climate Initiatives   Airbus A330   Lufthansa  
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FlightGlobal • Dominic Perry

Film star: how Lufthansa Technik is bringing AeroShark coating to A330

By FlightGlobal: Discover Airlines, a Lufthansa subsidiary, has provided an Airbus widebody for the certification campaign, which should conclude later this year.

2026-09-09T01:06:05.196214-07:00
Aircraft Demand: Airline Distress & Consolidation   Airline Industry & Market Trends   Aircraft Manufacturing (OEMs)   Asia-Pacific (APAC)   Airbus   Airbus A320  
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Air Data News • Ricardo Meier

High-speed trains are shrinking China’s market for new airliners

By Air Data News: Airbus cuts 20-year single-aisle forecast by 470 aircraft as rail takes a larger share of China will need fewer new single-aisle aircraft than previously expected as its high-speed rail network continues to compete with domestic flights, according to a revised market forecast from Airbus .

2026-09-09T01:35:10.680160-07:00
ATC   Airports   Airline Industry & Market Trends   Aviation Safety & Regulation   Airport Infrastructure & Air Traffic Management   Airlines  
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Reuters • Sam Tobin, Sarah Young

UK summons air traffic boss after major outage as flights slowly resume

By Reuters: Flights from British airports resumed on Wednesday after a major air traffic failure, but questions mounted about ‌the reliability of Britain's aviation systems and ministers called in the flight control boss to explain the shutdown.

Also: New York Times, The Independent and thesouthafrican.com
2026-09-08T23:36:18.776800-07:00