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With ITA Airways and the newly-elected Italian government exploring options to help the airline to survive the next few months, they are currently looking to firm up an agreement with Lufthansa Group. The German airline group remains one of the few parties...

The first shipment of Chinese Guizhou FTC-2000G Mountain Eagle fighter jets may have been delivered to the Myanmar Air Force, according in reports in both local and international media.
The delivery has not been officially announced. However, according to Myanmari oppositional news website The Irrawaddy which referred to observers close to the matter, the aircraft reached Myanmar during November 2022....

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based carrier Etihad Airways has announced plans to bring four of its Airbus A380 aircraft back into service, in response to demand for air travel throughout its destination network.
The airline indicated that the first of the planned four A380s would be back in action by summer 2023. Prior to the breakout of COVID-19, it had 10 units, all of which are now stored at either Spain’s Teruel Airport (TEV) or Tarbes–Lourdes–Pyrénées Airport...

The Rafale M, the carrier-borne variant of Dassault’s fighter jet, has come out on top in an evaluation conducted by the Indian Navy.
During the Multi-Role Carrier Borne Fighters (MRCBF) program, the French fighter was pitched against the US-made F/A-18 Super Hornet. The tests took place at the shore-based INS Hansa test facility in Goa that simulates the deck of the INS Vikramaditya...