A TUI Airways flight (TOM156) made an emergency return to Manchester Airport on Friday, after smoke was seen in the flight deck. The flight crew declared the emergency at 10:47 local time.

The US Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into the Boeing 737 MAX door blowout that occurred on January 5th 2024.

Federal investigators have contacted some passengers and crew involved in the incident to establish facts. The Justice department has also interviewed the heroic pilots that safely landed their damaged aircraft, saving all 177 people on board.

US low cost airline carriers JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines were set to merge last month, until a US judge blocked the deal on anti competition concerns. Now the deal is dead, with JetBlue and Spirit parting ways for good. Both airlines announced on Monday the 4th March that they have terminated their merger agreement, just weeks after the judge ruled against it. The deal was worth $3.8bn.

Rolls Royce today have announced that they have won an order for Trent 7000 & Trent XWB-97 engines from STARLUX Airlines, a Taiwanese airline. STARLUX have ordered three Airbus A330neo aircraft, and five A350F aircraft, demonstrating STARLUX’s aspirations to grow.

An Embraer ERJ-195 aircraft has been severely damaged after overshooting the runway on takeoff at Belgrade airport in Serbia. The incident occurred on the 18th February 2024 at 17:38 local time (16:38 GMT).

Ryanair announced on Thursday that it has forged a new six year deal with ground servicing company Skytanking, in a bid to improve and deliver “industry-leading” turnaround times. Ryanair is Europe’s number one airline due to it’s low cost business model.

Around 15:15 local time, a Bombardier business jet crashed on to the I75 in Florida, killing two. The flight crew declared a mayday as power had been lost in both engines - they had attempted to make an emergency landing at Naples Airport in Florida but were not able to make it there successfully.

The NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) have released their preliminary report of the Alaska Airlines 1282 mid-flight blowout incident. This incident saw a Boeing 737 MAX 9, operated by Alaska Airlines, suffer a fuselage blowout mid flight, on January 5th 2024.

A Lufthansa Airbus A330 diverted to Frankfurt Airport on Wednesday following an engine malfunction. This aircraft was bound for Houston in Texas on the 31st January 2024, when the flight crew began noticing signs of a problem.

Ryanair Holdings Plc released their quarterly accounts yesterday (29/01), reporting a decrease in profits compared with the same period a year prior.

The 737 MAX has offically returned to service, after being cleared by regulators and deemed as safe.

Ali Sharif Al-Emadi, a former chairman of Qatar Airways has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for money laundering.

The US airline regulator, the FAA, has called for older Boeing 737-900ER aircraft to be inspected, amid the mid-flight door blowout crisis.

An Atlas Air Boeing 747-8 suffered an in flight engine fire on the 18th January 2024. The aircraft had climbed to 2000ft from Miami, Florida, bound for San Juan in Puerto Rico, when its number 2 engine (left inboard) caught fire.

A federal judge in the USA today (16/01) has blocked JetBlue Airways' forthcoming purchase of Spirit Airlines, after the US Department of Justice argued that the deal was anti-competitive and would hurt consumers

Delta Airlines have placed an order for 20 Airbus A350-1000 widebody aircraft, Airbus have announced

The US airline authority, the FAA, have formally opened an investigation into Boeing's processes, after the Alaska Airlines 1282 incident.

United Airlines have confirmed that as part of testing, sparked by the recent Alaska Airlines mid-flight blowout, they have identified loose bolts in their fleet of the Boeing 737 MAX's.

BREAKING NEWS - Alaska Airlines grounds ALL 65 737 MAX's, yet another blow to the Boeing 737 MAX. Swipe for more.

An Airbus A350 Japan Airlines passenger jet has today (02/01/24) collided with a Japanese coastguard aircraft, at Haneda airport in Tokyo.