The day the music died: The Buddy Holly plane crash explained
Immortalized in Don McLean’s hit song American Pie, ‘the day the music died’ is a reference to one…
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200 people, 20,000 lbs of equipment: How do NFL teams fly?
Which sport makes the most money in the world? The answer, perhaps surprisingly, is the American National Football…
Older than Google: A look at Delta’s oldest planes
Delta Air Lines prefers to keep older aircraft operational for longer, and has become renowned for it. Although…
Top 10 biggest aircraft lessors by fleet size
Lessors are the largest aircraft owners you’ve never heard of. Most airlines operate at least some aircraft on…
Top 10 longest passenger planes
Some of the longest passenger planes in the world are real giants. Right now, the longest plane is…
Top 10 busiest airports in the world by flights
Aviation continues to grow, and in 2024, total airline capacity exceeded 2019 levels for the first time since…
Revealed: The top 10 longest flights in the world in 2025
Imagine getting onto a plane and not getting off again for almost 19 hours. Thanks to advancing technologies…
A week in the life: Analyzing seven days of flying for four commercial aircraft
We all know that commercial airplanes spend their active service lives cross-crossing continents, ferrying passengers from origin to…
Piedmont, Envoy, PSA: AA’s ‘American Eagle’ regional subsidiaries explained
Domestic US travelers flying American Airlines will often come across the ‘American Eagle’ brand; in fact, it’s hard…
Unusual Queens: Top 10 coolest special mission Boeing 747s
The Boeing 747 is an icon of the jet age, a giant aircraft that democratized air travel for…
Top 10: The world’s safest airlines to fly in 2025
AirlineRatings, an airline safety and review site, has released its ranking for the world’s safest airlines to fly…
Queen of the skies: How to fly on a Boeing 747 in 2025
Since entering service in 1970, more than 1,500 Boeing 747s were built. For decades, if you were flying…
The 25 major airports located closest to the city centers they are named after
Many of us will have heard the jokes about how some airlines will offer to fly you to…
Top 10: The most on-time low-cost airlines of 2024
Cirium’s 2024 on-time performance report is out, and while all eyes are on the winners in the global…
No delay: These were the most on-time airlines in the world in 2024
Aviation analytics company Cirium has released its rankings for the most on-time airlines in the world in 2024.…
AeroTime’s top commercial aviation news stories of 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, we reflect on a year that has been packed with aviation news.…
Top 10: The world’s busiest flight routes in 2024
Air traffic has been steadily picking up since the pandemic disruption, with ACI reporting that it finally exceeded…
Departures and arrivals: the world’s airline casualties and startups of 2024
As is the case with any year, 2024 was kinder to some companies within the global airline industry…