Charlotte Bailey

United Kingdom

Editorial Consultant at Aerospace Global News

Digital Content Editor at Pilot Magazine

Writer at Freelance

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Weekend woes at Newark Liberty Airport

1 week ago | aerospaceglobalnews.com | Charlotte Bailey

Travellers passing through Newark Liberty International Airport over Memorial Day weekend have been subjected to numerous delays and cancellations as new temporary FAA restrictions came into effect on Friday 23 May. On 23 May, FlightAware.com noted a total of 282 delays and eight cancellations from Newark, rising to 389 delays and 14 cancellations on Saturday. This dropped marginally to 215 total delays and a further eight cancellations on Sunday.
20 more A330neos as Vietjet eyes international expansion

1 week ago | aerospaceglobalnews.com | Charlotte Bailey

Vietjet has doubled its firm orders for the Airbus A330neo, with a new deal for an additional 20 A330-900 aircraft to support its ongoing international network expansion over the next decade. This “long-term order” will allow the Vietnamese carrier to “increase flights on high capacity routes across the Asia-Pacific region, as well as to introduce new future long haul services to Europe,” explained Airbus. Vietjet’s current A330-300s operate international routes to Australia, India and Kazakhstan.
Vertical Aerospace progresses to Stage 3 of flight testing

1 week ago | aerospaceglobalnews.com | Charlotte Bailey

Vertical Aerospace appears to have performed the first conventional take-off and landing (CTOL) flight of its VX4 eVTOL, with unverified footage posted on social media apparently showing the aircraft in wing-borne flight beyond the perimeter of the circuit. An eight-second video posted on Twitter/X by @steerwithmyrear appears to show the VX4 in forward flight, propellers tilted, accompanied by a chase helicopter.
UK-first ‘chase plane’ SAF emissions experiment undertaken

2 weeks ago | aerospaceglobalnews.com | Charlotte Bailey

In a first-of-its-kind experiment for the UK, a novel airborne experiment has been undertaken to help assess how SAF could reduce a variety of non-CO2 aircraft emissions (including soot, other volatile particles and gases such as nitrogen oxides).
French training school fleet suffers unprecedented arson attack

2 weeks ago | aerospaceglobalnews.com | Charlotte Bailey

Commercial flight training provider Airways Aviation France has suffered what appears to be a suspected arson attack in the early hours on the morning, leaving at least three aircraft completely destroyed and inflicting substantial damage to many more.
Ryanair confident in MAX 10 certification timescales; extends optimism to outstanding Boeing deliveries

2 weeks ago | aerospaceglobalnews.com | Charlotte Bailey

Despite Boeing delivery delays continuing to impact growth, Ryanair’s traffic grew 9% to a record 200 million passengers during FY25; something Ryanair Group CEO Michael O’Leary attributed to the 7% decline in fares. However, with future growth intrinsically linked to a timely Boeing delivery schedule, the airline remains confident it will receive its outstanding units “well ahead of summer 2026,” – with the as-yet-uncertified MAX 10 to follow in spring 2027.
UN rules Russia responsible for downing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17

2 weeks ago | aerospaceglobalnews.com | Charlotte Bailey

The council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has deemed Russia responsible for downing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in July 2014, concluding that Russia’s use of surface-to-air missiles over eastern Ukraine violated Article 3 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation.
UK DfT outlines SAF revenue certainty mechanism funding

2 weeks ago | aerospaceglobalnews.com | Charlotte Bailey

The UK Department for Transportation has published its SAF Bill, concluding that “as the aviation industry and its passengers, rather than the general taxpayer, will benefit the most from increased SAF production that the revenue certainty mechanism intends to support,” it retains its position that industry should fund the SAF revenue certainty mechanism strategy.
Bipartisan bill to authorise ‘quiet supersonic flight’ filed in US

2 weeks ago | aerospaceglobalnews.com | Charlotte Bailey

Legislation has been filed in the US Senate looking to overturn a so-called ‘speed limit in the skies’; proposing that a current federal ruling first enacted in 1973 be lifted to permit civil supersonic flight over land under certain conditions. The Supersonic Aviation Modernisation (SAM) Act of 2025, proposed on 14 May, looks to overturn an existing regulation (CFR 91.817) dictating that no civil aircraft may exceed Mach 1; providing a 12-month window for the FAA to re-examine its existing ban.
Archer chosen as official LA 2028 Olympic air taxi provider

2 weeks ago | aerospaceglobalnews.com | Charlotte Bailey

Athletes, VIPs, fans and stakeholders could see themselves zipping around the upcoming 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Archer’s ‘flying taxi’, thanks to an exclusive partnership between the Californian eVTOL developer and Team USA.