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EASA Updates Guidance On Gulf Flying EASA warns airlines to avoid Gulf airspace due to rising risks from U.S.-Iran hostilities, missile strikes and potential misidentification of aircraft. jill.angelini@… Wed, 07/15/2026 - 14:14 Author Alan Dron Content source Aviation Daily Primary Category Safety, Ops & Regulation

Emirates shared that it has officially refurbished its 100th aircraft as part of what it calls the largest… Emirates completes retrofit of 100th aircraft in record-setting $5B program appeared first on AeroTime.

Airbus, Boeing and Embraer are all in contention for a new narrowbody order from Ethiopian Airlines, with a… Airbus, Boeing and Embraer all in contention for new Ethiopian narrowbody order appeared first on AeroTime.

German operator says twinjet will bring group’s Airbus deliveries to 700. Lufthansa’s first Airbus A350-1000 has emerged, ahead of delivery later this year, bearing the carrier’s commemorative 100th anniversary paint scheme. According to the German operator, the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-powered twinjet will be the 700th Airbus aircraft handed over to the company and its subsidiaries… The post Lufthansa’s first A350-1000 emerges with commemorative livery first appeared on FlightGlobal.

Aviation has spent decades optimising around congestion. Airbus' 2026-2045 Global Market Forecast suggests the next two decades will instead be defined by dispersion. While geopolitical crises, volatile fuel prices and supply chain disruption dominate today's headlines, Airbus argues these remain cyclical interruptions rather than structural constraints. The deeper transformation is geographic. Economic growth, urbanisation and rising middle classes are no longer concentrating exclusively within global megacities but increasingly across hundreds of smaller urban centres that are becoming commercially viable origins and destinations in their own right. This represents considerably more than another long-term traffic forecast. Airbus projects demand for 42,060 new aircraft over the next twenty years - 22,240 supporting traffic growth and 19,820 replacing ageing fleets - but the strategic significance lies in where those aircraft will fly rather than simply how many will be delivered. Thi