The cover choice for our year-end issue highlights FlightGlobal’s 2025 World Air Forces directory. Our comprehensive report details the in-service assets of 161 nations, and tells you how to read and download a free copy of our full fleet listing, produced in association with Embraer.
We assess the heightened tension between Russia and Kyiv’s western supporters as the war in Ukraine passes the 1,000-day mark, and the challenge facing Airbus as it strives to meet its revised commercial delivery target for 2024.
Elsewhere, we look at the major financial challenge facing multiple air taxi developers, the UK’s options around buying more Lockheed Martin F-35s, and why investigators probing the loss of an EgyptAir Airbus A320 in 2016 cannot agree on the likely cause. Plus, we report from the Bahrain International Airshow and European Rotors events.
Also this issue: can you gain coveted ‘Total Aviation Person’ status by scoring highly enough in Uncle Roger’s fiendish festive quiz?
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Our annual World Air Forces directory – published in association with Embraer – details the military aircraft fleets of 161 nations, and analyses the main events of the last 12 months.
Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury acknowledges that the airframer is again having to cope with a heavily-backloaded fourth quarter, but views it as a consequence of trying to ramp-up production while addressing unexpected disruptive events.
The war in Ukraine entered a new phase in mid-November, as Kyiv’s forces began to engage military targets inside Russian territory using long-range weapons donated by the USA and its other western allies.
As Spirit Airlines executes a long-foreshadowed decision to undergo financial restructuring, some analysts foresee short-term turbulence ahead for Spirit – and even the potential liquidation of its fleet
Amid a drier landscape for investment capital, US air taxi developers face a critical phase.
Vertical Aerospace’s chief executive says the decision to delay the service entry of its VX4 by two years came after a deep engineering-led review of the electric air taxi’s progress, but he insists there will be no further timeline slippage.
The UK is poised to receive its first Lockheed Martin F-35B produced in the stealth fighter’s new Technical Refresh 3 (TR-3) standard, while the airframer steps up its campaign to secure a follow-on production order from the nation.
After months of flight-testing a prototype capable of taking off and landing with 46m (150ft) of runway, US aircraft developer Electra has revealed the design for its proposed production aircraft – the EL9 Ultra Short.
While French investigators believe an intense oxygen-fuelled cockpit fire brought down an EgyptAir Airbus A320 eight years ago, they have yet to determine fully the reasons for the oxygen leak and pinpoint the source of ignition.
Norwegian accident investigators have urged the country’s civil aviation regulator to review its policy on the marking of overhead powerlines after a light helicopter narrowly avoided a crash after flying into an unmarked cable.
Emergency services provider Avincis is charting an aggressive growth path, targeting global expansion where “nothing is off the table”.
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Our annual World Air Forces directory – published in association with Embraer – details the military aircraft fleets of 161 nations, and analyses the main events of the last 12 months.
We detail some of the most notable national fleet retirements recorded in the 12 months since we published our last World Air Forces directory at the end of 2023.
It’s time for some festive cheer: the soothing challenge of our fiendish festive quiz.
Paola Velasco became the first female pilot in command for a Bolivian airline. Currently expecting her first child, she is hoping to overcome a medical condition that has kept her out of the cockpit.
The lighter side of Flight International.
Heightened tensions between Russia and the West risk plunging the world back into a Cold War-style era of instability, with other malign actors also lining up.
Hydrogen propulsion has the potential to help the aviation industry meet ambitious decarbonisation goals, but collective support and investment is needed, argues Dr Josef Kallo.
