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The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has found that a maintenance work light was left inside the left… ATSB report finds Qantas A380 flew two sectors with work light inside wing appeared first on AeroTime.

Google will acquire deidentified Spirit Airlines data after winning a bankruptcy auction with a $10 million bid. The records include employee emails,

Control procedures under scrutiny after missing tool undetected before aircraft released back to service. Australian carrier Qantas has initiated work on using new technology for tool control, and revised its tool procedures, after an incident in which a maintenance lamp was left inside an Airbus A380 wing. The aircraft had undergone work at Sydney following… The post Qantas A380 flew two long-haul sectors with maintenance lamp inadvertently left in wing first appeared on FlightGlobal.

The search giant’s winning bid of $10 million gives it access to a trove of emails, financial records and more. Google will acquire a massive cache of Spirit Airlines’ business records after its $10 million offer beat out other bidders in a bankruptcy auction. Mercor, an AI-training start-up, had also bid for the data, which… The post Google buys Spirit Airlines data for $10m to train AI models first appeared on FlightGlobal.

Australia's domestic aviation market is proving more resilient than the increasingly challenging operating environment might suggest, but the recovery is becoming increasingly uneven. Discussions at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit - Australia Pacific 2026 highlighted a market in which international traffic has become the principal engine of post-pandemic growth, while domestic demand continues to hold up despite fuel price volatility and rising geopolitical uncertainty. The more immediate concern is the industry's tightening cost base, with regulatory requirements and higher operating costs placing particular pressure on regional aviation, where thinner margins and limited economies of scale leave operators more exposed. At the same time, airport investment is emerging as a critical issue as infrastructure providers seek to accommodate future demand while airlines face increasing pressure to control costs. The result is a market with solid underlying demand, but a less certain outlook a

By Jay Menon Subscription Required Aug. 18, 2026, © Leeham News: When former IATA head Willie Walsh assumed charge as chief executive of IndiGo in the first week of August, he inherited the operational epicenter of the global... Read More The post Why Enginemakers Are Building Their Largest MRO Facilities in India appeared first on Leeham News and Analysis.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that Electra and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in partnership with New Jersey Department of Transportation conducted hybrid-electric demonstration flights to test routes connecting small local airports to major airline hubs. The test flights, which were part of the FAA’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP) took place between Manassas, Virginia, and Philadelphia, stopping at:

EASA has published a new report on the state of science and knowledge on atmospheric icing in a climate change context, developed under the European Network on Impact of Climate Change on Aviation (EN-ICCA). The report examines what is currently known about atmospheric icing and considers how changing climatic conditions could affect this aviation-relevant weather hazard in the future.

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