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Air Data News • Ricardo Meier

Military aircraft flight plan reportedly triggered UK air traffic control outage

Anomalous flight-plan data associated with a British military aircraft reportedly preceded a NATS failure that disrupted UK air traffic operations. The outage led to more than 2,000 flight cancellations and affected hundreds of thousands of passengers, highlighting the operational consequences of fragile interfaces between military and civilian systems.

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2026-09-11T23:51:29.790527-07:00

Workforce & Skills Development Boeing

Reuters • Dan Catchpole

Boeing and engineers' union reach tentative contract agreement

By Reuters: Boeing and its engineering union reached a ‌tentative contract agreement on Friday, union officials said.

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2026-09-11T17:05:57.434239-07:00

Event PaxEx Airline Industry & Market Trends Airlines

APEX • Joshua Kupietzky

FTE Global 2026: oneworld CEO Pushes to Close the Gaps Across 15 Member Airlines

By APEX: oneworld wants to connect its 15 airlines through better technology, aligned policies, and a more consistent journey.

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2026-09-11T16:50:21.066015-07:00

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Paddle Your Own Kanoo • Mateusz Maszczynski

United Airlines 777 Diverts to Bangor After Passenger Bites Flight Attendant

By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: One specific cockpit signal is meant to do far more than warn passengers about turbulence — and ignoring it is a federal crime.

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2026-09-11T12:20:34.904631-07:00

Accident Aviation Safety & Regulation Airbus A330

FlightGlobal • David Kaminski-Morrow

Probe opens into Wamos A330’s low approach to Reunion

By FlightGlobal: Twinjet had experienced disruption to satellite-based navigation during service from Paris. French investigators are probing a substantial flightpath deviation by an Airbus A330-200 on approach to La Reunion in the southern Indian Ocean.

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2026-09-11T12:50:28.826064-07:00

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FlightGlobal • Graham Rapier

Canada’s Air Transat to hold capacity flat as it swings to a loss

By FlightGlobal: Carrier was hit by higher labour costs atop fuel-price spikes. Transat AT, parent of Canadian leisure carrier Air Transat, swung to a loss for its fiscal third quarter as fuel costs and a new labour agreement took a toll.

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2026-09-11T09:51:39.397315-07:00

Airline Industry & Market Trends Airbus Airbus A320 Airlines

Air Data News • Ricardo Meier

Wizz Air bought 47 A321XLRs to fly farther. Now it plans to use just 11 like regular A321neos

By Air Data News: Closure of Wizz Air Abu Dhabi has left the airline with few routes that require the XLR’s additional range, while some of the new aircraft are already flying short Air once planned to operate 47 Airbus A321XLRs and use their additional range to extend its ultra-low-cost model into markets six to eight hours away.

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2026-09-11T09:36:08.994288-07:00

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Runway Girl • Mary Kirby

Avianca turns to Collins and Panasonic for INSIGNIA upgrade on 787s

By Runway Girl: Avianca in 2027 will retrofit its 787s with new doored mini-suites from Collins Aerospace and 4K OLED-based IFE from Panasonic Avionics.

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2026-09-11T11:50:53.416777-07:00

Military aircraft flight plan reportedly triggered UK air traffic control outage

Boeing and engineers' union reach tentative contract agreement

FTE Global 2026: oneworld CEO Pushes to Close the Gaps Across 15 Member Airlines

United Airlines 777 Diverts to Bangor After Passenger Bites Flight Attendant

Probe opens into Wamos A330’s low approach to Reunion

Canada’s Air Transat to hold capacity flat as it swings to a loss

Wizz Air bought 47 A321XLRs to fly farther. Now it plans to use just 11 like regular A321neos

Avianca turns to Collins and Panasonic for INSIGNIA upgrade on 787s

Military aircraft flight plan reportedly triggered UK air traffic control outage

Boeing and engineers' union reach tentative contract agreement

FTE Global 2026: oneworld CEO Pushes to Close the Gaps Across 15 Member Airlines

Probe opens into Wamos A330’s low approach to Reunion

United Airlines 777 Diverts to Bangor After Passenger Bites Flight Attendant

Avianca turns to Collins and Panasonic for INSIGNIA upgrade on 787s

Qatar Airways expands Winter network to over 170 destinations, adds new routes

Guinée Atlantique Airlines proclaimed as new flag carrier

Canada’s Porter, Flair get state loans to offset fuel prices

NetJets to build new terminal, hangar at Dallas Love Field

Airbus secures Vietravel Airlines order for 50 single-aisle jets and Vietnam Airlines MOU for five A350-900s

NATS outage cancels more than 2,000 UK flights, prompting calls for system overhaul

Emergency slide deployment briefly delays Trump’s departure aboard Qatari-gifted Air Force One

Lufthansa advances AeroSHARK drag-reducing film toward Airbus A330 certification

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