A leading U.S. developer of blended-wing body (BWB) aircraft that it bills as a replacement for single-aisle narrowbodies—such as the Boeing 737 Max 8 and 10 and Airbus A321neo—has announced a new, larger flagship concept for up to 250 passengers. Natilus CEO and co-founder Aleksey Matyushev told FLYING that the company’s Horizon Evo, unveiled Tuesday,

India’s largest LCC IndiGo has struck a deal with West Entertainment to  supply a suite of inflight entertainment and related services for the airline’s A321XLR fleet. Under the five-year agreement, West Entertainment, together with partners Shemaroo Contentino and Images in Motion, will deliver a catalogue of on-demand content. READ: IndiGo selects Bluebox IFE for A321XLR order

National airline Air Cambodia has selected AirFi to deliver wireless streaming inflight entertainment (IFE) across its fleet, marking a new customer go-live and a fleetwide implementation spanning the airline’s narrowbody and regional aircraft. Under the partnership, AirFi’s streaming IFE platform will be deployed across Air Cambodia’s fleet of Airbus A320 and ATR 72-series aircraft, including

Spain-based LCC Volotea has introduced predictive spare parts planning capability in order to better forecast material demand, months and even years ahead. The system has been built with predictive maintenance provider EXSYN’s modular aviation data platform and it set to transforms how the airline plans, procures, and positions spare parts across its maintenance network. READ: Volotea,

Improved fault resolution is one of the significant gains expected from the application of industrialised Artificial Intelligence in aircraft maintenance. Speaking to Aviation Business News last week in Dubai at the MRO Middle East trade show Mark Buongiorno, OFS president of aerospace and defence said data sets need to be collated. He said as airlines

CargoLand, the air cargo hub at Liege Airport (LGG) in Belgium, has announced a new partnership with Emirates SkyCargo, reinforcing its position as a leading European pharmaceutical logistics hub. Following several years of ad hoc operations, Emirates SkyCargo will now serve LGG with five weekly Boeing 777 freighters, marking its first new freighter destination of 2026

Avianca Cargo has reported transporting more than 19,000 tonnes of flowers from Colombia to the US during the 2026 Valentine’s Day season, recording 6% year-on-year growth and reinforcing its position as the leading carrier on the trade. Over a 22-day peak period, the Colombian freight carrier operated close to 320 freighter flights, moving fresh-cut flowers

An earlier Lunar New Year flattered global air cargo demand in January as the year commenced with unexpected vigour with a +7% year-on-year boost in demand and an easing of recent freight rate declines, but any early market optimism for 2026 was dampened by the first year-on-year fall in e-commerce exports from China since January

Airline modern retailing technology developer CitizenPlane is to introduce a new revenue management platform for mid-size and fast-growing airlines. The system, rebranded as Pulse has been launched following the acquisition of French technology firm Yieldin. The acquisition brings an additional module to CitizenPlane’s next-gen operating system, along with Zenith PSS and Air Distribution. Hadrien Musitelli,