Commercial Aircraft & Fleets

The biggest policy revolution in Southwest's 53-year history eliminates open seating. Here is the exact timeline and seat selection breakdown.

United Airlines has begun commercial passenger flights with SpaceX Starlink satellite Wi-Fi, offering sub-30ms latency and gate-to-gate speeds exceeding 250 Mbps.

The extra-long-range narrowbody connects secondary North American and European cities with non-stop range up to 4,700 nautical miles, bypassing megahub congestion.

Extensive flight-testing of folding wingtips, GE9X engine endurance, and avionics redundancy brings Boeing's flagship widebody closer to commercial deliveries.

New composite wing profiles and enhanced Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 thrust ratings expand transpacific payload capability for flagship carrier fleets.