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Air Canada has cut back on its planned capacity growth on flights between Montreal, Canada, and San Francisco, the United States, with the airline keeping the current winter's daily flights during the upcoming winter season.

The U.S. Army launched its new hypersonic missile from Cape Canaveral Space Force station last week, just days after naming it the "Dark Eagle."

Welcome to my 166th weekly routes article! It includes seven mini-stories about subjectively exciting services that took off between April 22 and 28 (unless stated).Click here to see my last jam-packed article! Many dozens of routes started in the examined period, but, as always, only a selectionis covered.

Artificial intelligence could offer a powerful pathway to supercharge our ability to "hear" the universe, according to new research.

United Airlines has now officially reopened its Polaris lounge at Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) after a refurbishment program lasting several months. With an abundance of extra space and a private dining room among the perks of the new layout, the US legacy carrier and Star Alliance founding member is looking forward to welcoming its premium travelers back into the reopened lounge.

Discussions about an aircraft's entry into service with a carrier can be frustrating. After all, delays may occur while the network usually evolves, particularly with additional routes announced. As of April 29, Etihad Airways' inaugural passenger-carrying Airbus A321LR service remains on August 1 from Abu Dhabi to Phuket. For now, the Thai destination is expected to be one of 17 airports to see the LR from Abu Dhabi until early 2026.

As scientists, we must not forget our collective direction: the pursuit of truths and our responsibility to share these truths — and only these truths — with humanity.

JetBlue has detailed that 11 of its Airbus aircraft powered by the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G engine family, also known as the Geared Turbofan (GTF), are grounded as of Q1. The airline said that these aircraft are scheduled to return to service in the future.

* Article updated 16:05 UTC 29/04/2025 following clarification from Hawaiian Airlines *

Virgin Atlantic has confirmed that it will not be returning to Tel Aviv, Israel, with the airline emphasizing its codeshare agreement with EL AL, which offers direct connections between London and Tel Aviv, Israel.

The crescent moon will seemingly jump over the planet Jupiter between the nights of April 29 and April 30.

Lufthansa Group has announced its Q1 results, detailing that all of its passenger airlines were loss-making, which does not include ITA Airways. The Italian carrier’s performance was accounted for as operating results from equity investments, which worsened year-on-year (YoY).

Long-forgotten mine fields in Cambodia are being revealed in decades-old, recently declassified images from U.S. military satellites.

SpaceX sent another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit tonight (April 28), its second liftoff of the day.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched the first big batch of satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband constellation to low Earth orbit today (April 28).

The European Space Agency's Biomass forest-monitoring satellite will launch atop a Vega-C rocket early Tuesday morning (April 29), and you can watch the liftoff live.

Satellite imagery reveals scope of damage from one of the largest fires New Jersey has seen in decades.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Seventy-year-old NASA astronaut Don Pettit looked pretty peaked shortly after returning to Earth from the ISS this month. And he was pretty peaked — he'd just thrown up on the Kazakh steppe.

China's outgoing Shenzhou 19 crew have handed over the reins of the Tiangong space station to a new set of astronauts.