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What Are The Oldest Active Aircraft In British Airways’ Fleet?

Adhisthit Bastola — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:14:52 +0000

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 […]

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How Common And Dangerous Are Bird Strikes in British Aviation?

Adhisthit Bastola — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:51:04 +0000

The UK’s former Central Science Laboratory estimated that worldwide, bird strikes cost airlines around $1.2 billion annually. The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) recorded 1,432 bird strikes across British aviation in 2022, and the agency has tracked a steady rise in reporting since mandatory disclosure began in January 2004. The deadliest confirmed case in recent […]

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Concorde’s Longest Flights: Routes, Records, and the Limits of Supersonic Travel

Karan Bhatta — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:14:34 +0000

The Concorde, the second supersonic airliner, established aviation benchmarks such as the speed of Mach 2.34 that remain unmatched for a commercial aircraft decades after its retirement. The debate over the longest Concorde flight encompasses two distinct milestones: the farthest regular commercial routing the aircraft ever completed and a unique scientific mission in 1973 that […]

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Heathrow Christmas Strike 2025 Explained: Low Pay, Outsourcing, and Aviation Labour Tensions

Adhisthit Bastola — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:36:11 +0000

Update (September 2026): More than 80 OCS cleaners at British Airways’ Heathrow sites began strike action scheduled to run from 18 to 29 December 2025. On 17 June 2026, Unite announced that the workers had won union recognition, giving the union sole bargaining rights over pay, terms and conditions, including working hours and annual leave, […]

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Why did Concorde Stop Flying? Top 5 Reasons Why it Failed

Karan Bhatta — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:28:33 +0000

Concorde was an aircraft that had come after fourteen years of collaboration between France and Britain. It was sleek, agile, and had cruised at greater than Mach 2, allowing it to cross the pond in less than two hours. This aircraft saw passenger operations as far back as 1976, prompting to ask if one could […]

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Concorde’s Top Speed: A look at the safest supersonic airliner’s pace

Karan Bhatta — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:06:49 +0000

When the former Air France chairman, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, said, “Concorde will never really stop flying because she will live on in people’s imagination”, it encapsulated everyone’s feelings. Apart from hardcore environmentalists who have maintained that an aviation world full of Concordes would simply ruin the planet (for the aircraft was a gas guzzler)[zero carbon flight […]

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