Civil Aviation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport (ICAO code VOVI) at Bhogapuram on Saturday, August 1, 2026, ANI reported. The Greenfield airport sits in Vizianagaram district, about 45 kilometres from Visakhapatnam, and will become North Andhra Pradesh’s main gateway for domestic and international travel. Modi landed at the new runway and…

British Airways (BA) operates a fleet of 298 active aircraft across eight types, ranging from 24-year-old narrowbody workhorses to Airbus A350-1000s barely out of their factory wrapping. The airline’s overall active fleet carries an average age of 14.6 years, but that figure masks enormous variation between aircraft types. This breakdown looks at the oldest individual aircraft…

Altitude Air, a Kathmandu-based helicopter charter operator, is preparing to expand its fleet back to three helicopters by November 2026. The company currently flies with two aircraft after one of its three Airbus H125 helicopters was damaged beyond repair in an accident near Lobuche, in the Everest region, in late October last year. Company Director…

Buddha Air (U4), Nepal’s largest private airline by fleet size, has taken delivery of a new-generation ATR 72-600 turboprop, registered 9N-AOS. The aircraft landed at Tribhuvan International Airport (KTM), Kathmandu, on Saturday, July 25, 2026, after a ferry flight that began in Toulouse, France, and routed through Cairo and Muscat. The delivery raises Buddha Air’s…

Nepal’s Ministry of Tourism has openly asked the country’s airline and helicopter operators whether the time has come to merge, according to a report by Kantipur. The Ministry convened a discussion titled “Economic Stability and Security of the Nepali Aviation Industry” at Singha Durbar on June 29, 2026, bringing together representatives from every domestic carrier…

Pakistan sits on the Central Asian Flyway, the migratory corridor that funnels birds between Siberia and South Asia, and that geography collides directly with the country’s busiest runways. Between 2018 and 2022 alone, Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) recorded 622 bird strike incidents nationwide, an average of well over one every three days, according to…

Himalaya Airlines (H9) welcomed a delegation from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the International Aviation Innovation Organization & Norm Airlift Resources Development Organization (IAIO-NARDO) on July 24, 2026. The meeting took place in Kathmandu, at the airline’s base near Tribhuvan International Airport (KTM). Airline staff and UN…

A United Airlines (UA) flight from Cincinnati to Chicago on July 4, 2026, carried exactly one passenger on a Boeing 737-900 built for 179 people. He had been left to arrange his own travel after British Airways (BA) diverted his London-to-Chicago flight because of storms. His story went viral, but he is far from the…

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