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AVIATION

An Air India 787-8 Dreamliner. Boeing's widebody 787 planes, one of the most modern passenger aircraft in service, have never had a fatal crash until Thursday's Air India incident.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 13, 2025
Air India crash is the latest test for new Boeing leadership
Public perception of the planemaker is still on shaky ground after three high-profile accidents involving its planes in recent years.
The crash site of Air India Flight 171 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, on Thursday. More than 240 were killed when the London-bound plane crashed moments moments after taking off from the city of Ahmedabad on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 13, 2025
Aviation experts draw attention to flaps and landing gear in Air India crash
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner appeared to not achieve sufficient thrust as it lumbered down nearly the full length of the runway.
The tail of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane that crashed in Ahmedabad, India, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 13, 2025
‘I got up and ran’: How one man survived the plane crash that killed 241
"Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise,” Ramesh Vishwaskumar said. "There were dead bodies around me. I got scared. I got up and ran."
Relatives of victims who died in the Air India plane crash mourn as they wait outside the postmortem room at a hospital, in Ahmedabad, India, on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 12, 2025
Search for answers hastens in Air India crash that killed over 240
Questions are growing over how and why the 787-8 Dreamliner, bound for London, exploded into a huge fireball just minutes after takeoff.
An Airbus A300 aircraft operated by Iran Air at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran
WORLD / Politics
Jun 11, 2025
Iran looks for planes and partners in post-sanctions order
Tehran-based Iran Air is eager to expand its operations to meet rising travel demand and is actively seeking new aircraft, spare parts and partnerships.
Emergency specialists working at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, in December last year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 10, 2025
Expanding missile threats and airspace closures are straining airlines
The aviation industry, which prides itself on its safety performance, is investing more in data and security planning.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a visit to Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar, in May.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 7, 2025
Trump signs orders to bolster U.S. drone defenses and boost supersonic flight
The executive orders aim to bolster defenses against threatening drones and to boost electric air taxis and supersonic commercial aircraft.
Willie Walsh, director general of the International Air Transport Association, speaks at the press briefing in New Delhi on Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 3, 2025
Trade barriers and plane delivery delays challenge global airline growth
More people are flying than ever before after a post-pandemic passenger market recovery, but airline growth is being hampered.
Parliament has passed a bill making communication skills training mandatory for all pilots working at busy airports.
JAPAN / Politics
May 30, 2025
Japan revises aviation law after 2024 Haneda collision
The revision makes communication skills training mandatory for all pilots operating at busy airports, including private and Japan Coast Guard aircraft.
The ground-breaking ceremony for full-scale construction to enhance Narita Airport’s capacity is held Sunday at the facility in Chiba Prefecture, with Narita International Airport President Akihiko Tamura (far left) and others in attendance.
JAPAN
May 25, 2025
Narita Airport eyes completion of third runway by early 2029
The airport in Chiba Prefecture, which services Tokyo, will see the number of its annual landing and takeoff slots jump to 500,000 from the current 300,000.
U.S. President Donald Trump (center), Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani (right) and Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg attend a signing ceremony in Doha on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 15, 2025
Qatar Airways orders 160 Boeing twin-aisle jets during Trump visit
The deal for Boeing 777X and 787 planes with GE Aerospace engines was worth $96 billion, according to the White House.
In March alone, the number of non-Japanese international passengers using Narita Airport rose 11% from a year earlier to 2,003,482, a record high for the month.
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2025
Narita Airport reports 16% increase in passengers
The airport's overall passenger count in fiscal 2024 totaled 40,774,055, topping 40 million for the first time in five years.
A Boeing 737 MAX plane, intended for China's Xiamen Airlines, arrives at King County International Airport after returning from China due to ongoing tariff disputes, in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 20, 2025
Boeing jet returns to U.S. from China, a victim of Trump's tariff war
The return of the 737 MAX is the latest sign of disruption to new aircraft deliveries from a breakdown in the aerospace industry's decades-old duty-free status.
An autonomous aerial vehicle designed to carry one passenger conducts a test flight in Guangzhou, China. Flying taxis and even drone-powered food delivery services are rapidly becoming realities in the country's government-backed "low-altitude economy."
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Apr 18, 2025
Will a 'low-altitude economy' make Chinese growth soar again?
Beijing wants to repeat the economic success story of its battery and EV players by propelling companies operating in low-altitude airspace to global market dominance.
A boy watches forensic investigators comb the ground for DNA evidence near airplane debris at the crash site of an Ethiopian Airlines-operated Boeing 737 Max aircraft on March 16, 2019 in Oromia region, Ethiopia.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 8, 2025
Boeing settles to avoid civil trial over Ethiopian Airlines crash
The Boeing 737 Max plane crashed just six minutes after takeoff on March 10, 2019, killing all 157 people on board.
A passenger plane makes its landing approach to Heathrow International Airport on Saturday.
WORLD
Mar 22, 2025
Travel disruptions linger as flights resume at London’s Heathrow
Heathrow Airport in London, one of the world’s busiest air hubs, resumed full operations Saturday.
Firefighters douse the flames of a fire that broke out at a substation supplying power to Heathrow Airport in Hayes, England, on Friday.
WORLD
Mar 21, 2025
Heathrow closed after huge fire at power station, disrupting global flights
Travel experts say the disruption would extend far beyond Heathrow, the world's fifth-busiest airport.
Climate change mitigation demands collective action from all levels of society, not just billionaires with private jets, as systemic change is necessary for meaningful progress.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 21, 2025
Billionaire’s private jet angst won’t save the world
Data center emissions in the U.S. already rival those of the domestic airline industry and are growing far quicker.
A woman checks her phone at Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea, in 2020. Passengers on South Korean airlines must now keep power banks and e-cigarettes on their person and not in overhead cabin bins.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 3, 2025
Seoul's lithium battery rules on planes highlight growing risk for aviation
Passengers on South Korean airlines must now keep power banks and e-cigarettes on their person and not in overhead cabin compartments.
A screen shows news footage of plane debris at the site where a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane crashed in the Chinese city of Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, in March 2022.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Feb 28, 2025
Air safety reporting under scrutiny as crashes lie unresolved
Almost half of 268 accidents involving fatalities or major damage between 2018 and the end of 2023 lack a final report.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Demystifying the manufacturing success of China
China’s massive scale, strong education system and competitive local governance have enabled it to reach the technological frontier and dominate high-tech manufacturing despite its low per capita gross domestic product.
Infectious diseases to watch for in Japan this summer amid surge of cases
An illustration of a colony of the Bordetella pertussis bacterium that causes pertussis, or whooping cough. As of Aug. 10, there were 64,467 cases reported this year, according to the latest data from the Japan Institute for Health Security.
103-year-old remembers Soviet attack right after WWII
Shoichi Takahashi holds a photo of himself when he was younger, in Otaru, Hokkaido, on May 17.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Atsushi Kitagawara’s exhibition finds poetry in architecture
The inverted cone, one of Atsushi Kitagawara’s six signature elements in architecture, is a key feature of the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection museum building.
Candidates preparing to make final pitches for Sawamura Award
Hawks pitcher Livan Moinelo has a 1.13 ERA in 19 starts this season.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
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