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PARIS — The European Commission picked a consortium led by SES, Eutelsat and Hispasat to deploy the IRIS² satellite constellation, as the European Union seeks its own satellite broadband system to ensure the bloc isn’t reliant on foreign entities such as Elon Musk’s Starlink. The parties will sign a 12-year concession contract by December, the […]

France’s TGV is often lauded as the best high-speed rail service in the world. A trailblazer in the 1970s, the French network now crisscrosses France and beyond, offering fast and convenient connections. Indeed, the network is so popular that many trains are now built as double-deckers and boast as many as 20 carriages. But with

Air India Group has completed the operational integration and legal merger between Air India and Vistara, creating a full-service carrier of scale and marking a significant milestone in the post-privatisation transformation journey. This follows the merger of the Group’s low-cost airlines Air India Express and AIX Connect (formerly Air Asia India) on 1 October 2024.

PARIS — Thales will provide the French Navy with its first production version of an autonomous mine-hunting system by the end of the year as a first step to fully remote mine warfare, with the first system for the U.K.’s Royal Navy following in early 2025, the company said. France and the U.K. are moving to stand-off mine countermeasures, a choice

Bismarck, North Dakota-based air ambulance operator Bismarck Air Medical and VETAir have combined to provide no-cost air transport for veterans needing medical care. Based in Amarillo, Texas, VETAir is a Veteran Service Organization (VSO) with expertise in arranging such flights within the Special Mode Transportation Air Ambulance (SMTAA) system. According to VETAir, the process of

PARIS — Imagine racing on the runways of an international airport — not in your airplane, but on foot. That’s what happened Oct. 20, 2024, for the first time at Paris-Le Bourget Airport, when supporters and volunteers with Aviation Sans Frontières, a Paris-based NGO using aircraft and volunteers to support humanitarian needs around the world,

In early November 2024, the French Air and Space Force carried out a series of deployments to support NATO’s Agile Combat Employment (ACE) concept, which enhances resilience and survivability in air operations.   The exercise took place from November 4 to 8, 2024, and included deploying Rafale fighter jets to bases in Germany and Croatia, along

ROME — Italian vehicle builder Iveco has signed up for a slice of the massive contract run by Italy’s Leonardo and Germany’s Rheinmetall to build fighting vehicles and tanks for the Italian army. After signing a preliminary agreement with Leonardo, Iveco said its defense arm IDV would be in line for between 12% and 15%

Five Lufthansa passengers and six crew members were injured after encountering “brief but severe turbulence” during a flight between Buenos Aires in Argentina and Frankfurt in Germany.   According to a Lufthansa spokesperson, the Lufthansa Boeing 747-8, registered D-ABYP, suffered turbulence while flying through an Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) on November 12, 2024.   The five passengers