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Air Canada has announced that it will add seasonal Boeing 737 MAX 8 flights from Montreal, Canada, to Edinburgh, Scotland, complementing its flights from Toronto to the Scottish Capital during the peak travel season.

During a GE Aerospace-hosted event in Brussels, Belgium, a Lufthansa Group executive warned that engine makers should also consider engine reliability when designing the next-generation engines for commercial aircraft.

Despite a tire malfunction on departure from Atlanta, an Alaska AirlinesBoeing 737 MAX 9 made a safe landing in San Diego International Airporton April 3, 2025. According to the Aviation Herald, at around 17:30 local time on Thursday, Flight AS474, which was carrying 165 passengers and six crew members, took off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on its way to San Diego.

British low-cost carrier easyJet is preparing for one of its busiest Easters, with up to 4.2 million people expected to fly with the airline during the holiday period. Meanwhile, the carrier is adding Crispy Chicken nuggets to its onboard menu, which is considered the ultimate comfort food by one in five Brits.

In April, the world will haveabout 8,000 daily round-trip widebody flights. Cirium Diio data shows they have risen by 3% compared to last April but are down by 5% compared to before the pandemic in April 2019. Just over half of the services will be long-haul, showing how such aircraft remain critical domestically (especially in China, Japan, and the US) and regionally (particularly within Asia and the Middle East). Tokyo Haneda remains the world's leading widebody airport thanks to short-haul, high-frequency, and high-capacity services.

Up to 23 daily transatlantic Boeing 757 flights will be operated this summer, all between the US and Europe. Twelve routes will have a maximum block time of over eight hours. At a high of 8h 40m, Newark to Stockholm Arlanda remains the longest 757-operated service in this market. United Airlines will, of course, operate it. The Star Alliance carrier provides more than three in four transatlantic departures on the type—three times more than Icelandair and Delta combined.

Following Spirit Airlines’ emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, several law firms have filed documents with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York to claim fees and expenses incurred during the process, which is more than $33 million.

On April 3, Emirates reintroduced another Airbus A380 to service. It was A6-EDF, 19.1 years old and nearly double the average of the carrier's superjumbos. It initially undertook a round-trip service between Dubai and Cairo. While it was the seventh A380 built, it was the sixth A380 delivered to the Gulf carrier; those that arrived sooner are retired or stored. A6-EDF is now the world's oldest active passenger-carrying superjumbo.

easyJet has celebrated the launch of several new routes, including direct flights from the United Kingdom to Cape Verde and Sakartvelo, also known as Georgia.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued safety recommendations to Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as it continues its investigation into a gear-up landing and the subsequent evacuation of a FedEx Boeing 757 in October 2023.

Global Airlines has announced that its launch partner, Hi Fly, the aircraft, crew, maintenance, and insurance (ACMI) and charter operator, completed the final test flight of its sole Airbus A380 ahead of the aircraft’s first commercial flights.

Another report about smoke in an aircraft cabin has come to light, this time on a United Airlines flight from Florida to Newark, which led to a diversion to Washington, D.C. Several cases of smoke or haze have been reported in airplanes in recent times, but thankfully, they did not lead to any significant incident.

Avelo Airlines has announced several new routes as well as the opening of a new base. Predictably, it has offered competitive starting fares for these services, but what came as a surprise is that the airline will now fly from Tweed-New Haven Airport to Chicago O’Hare International Airport instead of its earlier choice of Chicago Midway International Airport.

Chicago-based United Airlines is working on making the skies above the Bay Area even friendlier. The legacy carrier announced on Thursday that it plans to increase flights by 20% from its main West Coast hub.

The Boeing 757-300 has never been popular. Just 55 aircraft were built, of which Delta Air Lines remains the world's second-largest operator. According to ch-aviation, it has 16 of them, all awaiting refurbishment. They'll be used on over 25 routes this northern aviation summer (March 30-October 25), none international. Atlanta to Los Angeles is number one, with substantially more flights on the variant than a year ago.

Airbus reportedly delivered 69 commercial aircraft in March 2025, bringing its total for the quarter to 132 aircraft. This is a slight decrease from Q1 2024, showing a slow start to the year for the European manufacturer. Meanwhile, Boeing delivered 41 aircraft in March, bringing its quarterly total to 130.

United Airlineshas more long-haul flights from the US than any other carrier. This is mainly because of its dominance to Europe, Asia, and Australasia. It has overtaken the previous leader, Delta, to Europe.

On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, Boeing's CEO Kelly Ortberg told U.S. senators that he is happy with the company's progress in improving manufacturing safety practices in the wake of several notable incidents. With last year's nearly catastrophic door plug blowout that took place on an Alaska Airlines flight undoubtedly keeping the public spotlight on the manufacturer, Ortberg and his team certainly have their work cut out for them.

Spirit Airlines, which recently confirmed that it had emerged from financial restructuring, also known as Chapter 11, has detailed its fleet plan for 2025, with the airline reducing its fleet by 23 aircraft compared to the previous plan.

An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-800 was forced to turn back to its departure airport due to a fume event onboard, with the aircraft returning to commercial service shortly after its landing in Portland, Oregon, the United States.