Satellites detected GPS interference on the border between Ukraine and Belarus shortly before Russia invaded on Feb. 24, according to data released on March 4 by commercial space company HawkEye 360.
As western sanctions begin to take hold and Russian aircraft owners find themselves with assets they cannot use or even maintain, it is possible some will seek
The closure of Russian airspace to Finnish airlines is hitting Finnair hard as the majority of the flag-carrier’s pre-COVID revenues came from long-haul flights to Asia that overfly Russian territory.
Dassault engineers, who have put a special focus on meeting the Falcon 6X development program schedule, are facing new challenges to have the aircraft enter into service on time.
Korean Air has become the latest carrier to suspend its flights to Moscow since the Ukraine conflict began, while Japanese airlines are extending their cancelation of most European flights.
Sanctions being imposed on Russia will cripple the country’s business-aviation sector, according to a panel of aerospace lawyers convened by Corporate Jet Investor for a Town Hall webinar on March 2.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is forcing the French ministry of armed forces to rethink some plans, from a satellite launch to the use of large military transports.
The U.S. military on March 1 established a deconfliction line with the Russian Ministry of Defense aimed at avoiding incidents in the airspace over Eastern Europe amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Russia will stop supplying RD-181 engines, which are used on Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket, to the U.S. in retaliation for economic sanctions imposed in response to the conflict in Ukraine.
Technology firms Sabre and Amadeus will remove Aeroflot’s inventory from their respective global distribution systems (GDS) due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Embraer is no longer supporting operators in Russia and Belarus, joining other major Western aerospace manufacturers in taking action in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Shipping rates are rising again in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while the inability of Russian-owned freighters to operate as usual takes significant capacity out of the market.
New imagery from Ukraine suggests the only example of the world’s largest aircraft, the Antonov An-225, was badly damaged during fighting at the company’s airfield at Hostomel, near Kyiv.
Japan’s major airlines are canceling most of their flights to Europe due to the war in Ukraine, yet Korean Air’s Moscow flights are operating as normal for now and the carrier’s European services continue to overfly Russia.
Aircraft Industries, the Czech manufacturer of the Let family of turboprop transport aircraft, says in an open letter that its ownership by Russian holding group Ural Mining Metallurgical Company (UGMK) “is likely to change a lot for us as a company, but we ourselves do not know what the consequences will be.”
