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Aviation Desk | 13 Oct 2026 · 01:56

A strike on Riyadh airport is not only a Saudi emergency. It changes the calculations of airline security teams, dispatchers, insurers, crews and passengers across the Gulf including Indian travellers whose flight may never have been scheduled to land in Riyadh.

Aviation Desk | 13 Oct 2026 · 01:55

An airline can check a licence, a medical certificate and a criminal record. It cannot search a cockpit for a thought.

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Aviation Desk | 13 Oct 2026 · 01:53

An aircraft can arrive exactly on time and still fail its customer. The cargo may be sitting metres from the runway, inside a warehouse, waiting for a document, a forklift, a customs release, a cold room slot, a truck dock or a trained person with the authority to move it.

Aviation Desk | 13 Oct 2026 · 01:52

A missile strike appears on the news. In an airline operations room, someone begins moving the world.

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Aviation Desk | 12 Oct 2026 · 08:01

One smoking device diverted an aircraft. The larger safety question is whether passengers understand the batteries they bring aboard.

Aviation Desk | 12 Oct 2026 · 07:36

India has secured state participation for a much larger regional-aviation programme. The agreements can prepare airports, but they cannot guarantee an airline, an aircraft or a flight that survives its subsidy.

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Aviation Desk | 10 Oct 2026 · 06:57

Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong show that an airport can be far more than a transport facility. Though each is geographically compact, its airport acts as a diplomatic front door, a trade platform and a strategic instrument. Narendra Modi International Airport has the scale and location to be the confident diplomatic and economic mission to the world.

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Arun Malhotra, Editor, Tailwind Times | 7 Oct 2026 · 06:24

Delta’s planned first flight from Atlanta to Riyadh on October 23 may become a milestone in Saudi aviation. Whether we mistake it for a ceasefire signal or 'NOT?'

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Aviation Desk | 5 Oct 2026 · 04:56

The question hanging over IATA’s World Safety and Operations Conference is no longer whether aviation has mental-health policies. It is whether those policies can identify a pilot in difficulty early enough, without turning every cockpit medical into a surveillance exercise or driving people away from seeking help.

Aviation Desk | 5 Oct 2026 · 04:41

The FAA’s new SMART system is designed to spot a delay while it is still a forecast, not after it has become a line of aircraft waiting for a gate, runway slot or clear patch of weather. It is being tested around Washington.