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London Heathrow Airport (LHR) is continuing to enjoy a busy start to 2025, with February having seen more than 5.7 million passengers use the facility. The West London hub credits growth in transatlantic travel as having been a key factor in what was its busiest-ever February, as well as the 12th consecutive month with a daily average of more than 200,000 passengers. Let's take a look at the key figures.

Breeze Airways is marking a milestone in the continued growth of its route network. On Tuesday, the self-proclaimed “Seriously Nice” airline inked Key West, Florida, as its 70th destination.

Aviation analytics company Cirium has revealed the world's most punctual airline for February 2025. In a notable shift, for the first time in an extended period, a UK airline has secured a spot in the top ten most on-time carriers, both globally and within Europe.

Another disturbing incident has come to light about a passenger becoming violent onboard an airplane, physically assaulting at least two people on an American Airlines flight. Co-incidentally, the flight in question was the same Wichita-Washington service that was involved in the fatal midair collision in January.

A paper published in 2023 spurred discussion about whether life exists on an exoplanet named K2-18b. Two years later, the puzzle continues — and some scientists are expressing doubt.

A dramatic total lunar eclipse will turn the moon blood red for millions across North America overnight on March 13-14. Here are the best times to watch the show unfold.

An Air India New York-JFK-bound flight originating in Mumbai was turned around Monday morning following a threat. AI119 was roughly four hours into its almost 16-hour flight when a potential security threat was discovered onboard.

The German Lufthansa Group of airlines recently had CEO Carsten Spohr share with the March 6 Bangkok Post that the group sees growth connecting Europe with Asia. However, with long routes to avoid Russian airspace due to Russia’s War on Ukraine, Lufthansa and the other airlines of Lufthansa Group have to spend more and burn more fuel to connect Thailand with Europe for tourism and trade.

NASA and Boom Supersonic released an incredible photo capturing the shock waves of the supersonic XB-1 aircraft while it traveled in front of the sun during a Feb. 10 test flight.

The total lunar eclipse on March 13-14 will plunge moon missions into darkness. What will happen to the lunar spacecraft?

A typical US domestic flight in March will cover 595 nautical miles (1,102 km), roughly the distance from Atlanta to Houston Intercontinental.

NASA will close several offices and reduce its workforce to comply with an anti-DEI executive order from President Trump.

The moshing galaxies of Arp 105 dazzle in the Space Image of the Day Monday (March 10), which comes courtesy of Hubble.

Two very different movies based on a very similar premise, but with wildly different approaches.

Strange events at the heart of the Milky Way could point toward a new dark suspect that annihilates to influence the chemistry of the cosmos.

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Saturday, March 8, marked International Women’s Day - an opportunity to celebrate women's social, economic, and cultural achievements and their fight for equality and liberation worldwide. Many airlines celebrated the occasion with all-women-operated flights, among other campaigns, to highlight the significant contribution of women to the aviation industry.

In the fourth quarter of 2024, Florida-based ultra-low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines made the headlines for declaring bankruptcy, marking yet another turn in the carrier's long series of post-pandemic difficulties. To continue operating, the company was able to secure a large amount of provisional funding, but it became very clear that the Spirit which would exit the restructuring process would likely look significantly different from the Spirit Airlines of the past.

One-stop flights employing the same aircraft and flight number are usually intriguing, particularly if they involve long-haul operations or are different. Air Canadahas five stopping services this year. While no longer operated, they included its temporary stopover in Frankfurt en route from Mumbai to Toronto. This was to refuel and change crew, probably because of the detour from avoiding Russian airspace.

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