AINonline
• Amy Wilder
Pilatus has initiated a 32-month study aimed at converting carbon-fiber production scrap into usable aircraft components. The work focuses on overcoming material-reuse barriers from composite manufacturing waste streams, with the goal of turning what is typically discarded into value-added structures.
FlightGlobal
• Dominic Perry
By FlightGlobal: Leonardo Helicopters should better assess risk of duplex bearing failure in intermediate-twin's pitch control assembly, probe states.
ch-aviation
• Dominik Sipinski
By ch-aviation: Wizz Air (W6, Budapest) will integrate its eleven A321-200NY(XLR)s into the fleet as standard-range A321-200NX aircraft, and will not even demark them as a specific type, chief commercial officer Ian Malin said during Routes World 2026.
Vertical Mag
• MD Helicopters Press Release
By Vertical Mag: MD Helicopters renews support for Saudi Arabia's fleet with a multi-year contract for the MD 530F training helicopters.
Aeronews
• Teodor Stefan
By Aeronews: On May 21st, American Airlines launched 4 new routes to unlock even more access between the U.S. and Europe with new non-stop service to Budapest, Hungary (BUD) and Prague (PRG) from Philadelphia (PHL), and to Athens, Greece (ATH), and Zurich (ZRH) from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW).
Dj's Aviation
Airline Geeks
Breitflyte
• Joe Breitfeller
By Breitflyte: Norwegian has today announced the delivery of the first batch of biofuel to Tromsø Airport. The biofuel has been made from residual raw materials such as used frying oil, all of European origin.
Bloomberg
• Danny Lee, Leen Al-Rashdan
By Bloomberg: Qatar Airways QCSC will skip handing out bonuses to almost 60,000 workers this year after the US-Israel war on Iran forced the carrier to cancel tens of thousands of flights and lose out on billions in revenue.
Australian Aviation
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
By FlightGlobal: Crew used reverse thrust to manoeuvre after 'total' loss of braking while taxiing. Preliminary investigations indicate that a China Eastern Airlines Airbus A350-900 experienced complete brake failure before colliding with a passenger airbridge at Shanghai.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
