Drones
A Bengaluru dawn corridor puts hospital samples on a drone, not a van
Nilgiri Lift has filed for twenty mornings of medical flights between two hospital roofs. The route stays over the lake beds, and it stops if the noise monitors complain.
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Live fileLong-haul is selling. The aircraft to fly it are arriving late.
Network planners at three Atlantic carriers say the 2027 summer is now a metal problem, not a demand problem, after another slip in high-bypass engine-shop slots.
- Fan-shop turns on the latest high-bypass engines are averaging 96 days.
- Two lessors are offering interim lift at a winter premium through 2027.
- Cabin retrofits are full, so density — not new metal — has to carry the peak.
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Tomasz Biel, Aerospace correspondent
The wire
- DronesA Bengaluru dawn corridor puts hospital samples on a drone, not a van
- MarketsThe jet-fuel crack eases, and winter hedges look less cruel
- AirlinesNorth Atlantic yields cool as carriers add shoulder-season frequency
- AirportsA Gulf hub opens its midfield concourse with a 55-minute promise
- SpaceHarbor Launch holds a rideshare after a ground-system fault
- AirportsThe capital’s morning bank slips after a runway inspection runs long
- TechnologyA coastal city files for a dawn-only air-taxi corridor
In the file
Airlines
North Atlantic yields cool as carriers add shoulder-season frequency
Fares on the main European gateways are off their summer peak faster than traffic. Schedulers are adding October and March flying anyway.
Airports
A Gulf hub opens its midfield concourse with a 55-minute promise
Harun International will put the first wave of transfer passengers through a new midfield pier on Thursday, chasing connections the old terminal could not make.
Space
Harbor Launch holds a rideshare after a ground-system fault
The coastal operator scrubbed a dawn window on the Cape Merrow pad. The satellites are fine. The countdown was not.
Space & orbit
SectionSpace
Harbor Launch holds a rideshare after a ground-system fault
The coastal operator scrubbed a dawn window on the Cape Merrow pad. The satellites are fine. The countdown was not.
Space
Lumen Orbit books a spare payload after a solar-array anomaly
A regional satellite operator will fly a backup Ku-band payload next spring rather than nurse a wounded array through another rainy season.