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Today, on August 31, 2022 the Latvian airline airBaltic welcomed its 50th millionth passenger since the founding of the airline in 1995. The lucky passenger was Dace Jonaite, who landed at the airline’s home base in Riga Airport on board Airbus 220-300 aircraft from Vienna, Austria. The milestone was celebrated today in a special event

The USA's top 100 airports have 87.2 million departing seats planned for October, according to Ailevon Pacific Aviation Consulting, which uses Cirium data. While that might seem a lot, it's down by 10% from the 97.2 million planned five months ago. Read More Here: Winners & Losers: The USA’s Least & Most Recovered Airports |

On August 31, 1999, exactly 23 years ago today, LAPA Flight 3142 crashed at 20:54 local time after failing to get airborne while taking off from Aeroparque Internacional Jorge Newbery (AEP) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Three crew members, 60 passengers, and two people on the ground died. This was the second-deadliest accident in Argentine aviation

Despite a few recent wobbles, Boeing is one of the most iconic American companies and a globally recognized brand on par with the likes of Coca-Cola, Amazon, and Apple. While the parts that make up its aircraft may come from many places across the world, all of Boeing's final assembly lines (FAL) are based in

When it comes to airplanes, the typical chain of thought processes is that it is flying high in the blue skies or parked somewhere within an airport. However, an aircraft fuselage was spotted traveling on a relatively busy highway in Circunvalación until it got stuck under a bridge and caused several traffic complications. Read More

flydubai has announced that it will suspend operations in Iraq for two days. The announcement follows a string of violent events in Baghdad's safe zone earlier this week, where over 20 people have died. The airline has taken precautionary measures by canceling all flights to and from the country on August 30th and 31st. It

The CEO of Uganda Airlines, Jennifer Bamuturaki has been questioned over her qualifications, with a parliamentary committee claiming she does not have the requisite level of education to be appointed CEO of the airline. Bamuturaki says she is qualified and experienced to run the airline. She has been asked to produce a CV to check

Welcome to my 52nd routes newsletter. Over 500 new routes have been covered – almost all in a celebratory way – since the first newsletter was sent out to subscribers and published on Simpleflying.com. 11,000 subscribers now receive it in their inbox each weel and the 52 articles have been viewed more than 700,000 times.

Lufthansa has a long history with the A340-300. Its first example was delivered nearly 29 years ago in November 1993, although it has, not surprisingly, been scrapped. Lufthansa now has 17 A340-300s, of which 16 are active, according to Flightradar24. However, now that Germany's flag carrier has received its first of 32 B787-9s, the writing