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The public desk for aviation and aerospace.
WAAN World is the public edition of The World of Aviation & Aerospace Nation. The front changes with the edition you pick — Global, India, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, or Africa. Local copy leads. The shared file follows. India carries the aviation, aerospace, and drone file.
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Editions
- Global
- India
- Americas
- Europe
- Middle East
- Asia-Pacific
- Africa
Desks
Aviation
Weather, operations, and the daily movement of aircraft.
Airlines
Networks, cabins, cargo, and the carriers that fly them.
Aerospace
Airframes, engines, and the factories that cannot hurry.
Airports
Runways, terminals, and the minutes between gates.
Space
Pads, payloads, and the orbits aviation now depends on.
Defense
Patrol, search, and the fleets states are arguing over.
Technology
New lift, quieter ground movement, and the trials between.
Drones
Corridors, farm flights, and the register that has to keep up.
Markets
Fuel, yields, and the desk tape prepared for this edition.
Policy
Rules, offsets, and the language states are still negotiating.
Correspondents
Tomasz Biel
Aerospace, Derby & Toulouse
Marcus Ellison
Airlines, London
Anika Rahman
Airports
Hanae Sato
Space
Priya Menon
Defense, Singapore
Jonah Adler
Cargo, Hong Kong
Amara Diallo
Technology
Leila Okonkwo
Aviation
Elise Moreau
Policy, Montreal
David Khoury
Markets, London
Soren Lind
Maintenance
Note to the desk
Tips, corrections, picture offers, and hiring briefs are held for the editor. They are not published. Roles the desk accepts appear on the hiring file.
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- AerospaceLong-haul is selling. The aircraft to fly it are arriving late.
- AirlinesNorth Atlantic yields cool as carriers add shoulder-season frequency
- AirportsA Gulf hub opens its midfield concourse with a 55-minute promise
- SpaceHarbor Launch holds a rideshare after a ground-system fault
- TechnologyA coastal city files for a dawn-only air-taxi corridor
- DefenseA Pacific patrol fleet is being argued over one search season too late
- CargoAsia–Europe freighter yields firm for a fourth month
- AerospaceVesper holds the wing line at fourteen and calls it discipline
- AirportsAfter a winter of go-arounds, a hub rewrites the low-visibility plan
- AviationA monsoon pulse pushes west-coast banks into pre-emptive cancels
- SpaceLumen Orbit books a spare payload after a solar-array anomaly
- MaintenanceThe fan shop is the new final assembly
- PolicyStates circle a narrower baseline for the aviation offset compact
- MarketsThe jet-fuel crack eases, and winter hedges look less cruel
- TrainingThree academies will teach the approach as an energy problem
- DronesA Bengaluru dawn corridor puts hospital samples on a drone, not a van
- AirportsThe capital’s morning bank slips after a runway inspection runs long
- AerospaceHyderabad holds the blade cell and calls the rate a rumour
- AirlinesMalabar Regional puts a turboprop back on the island run
- AviationRelief fields along the Ghats are full before the afternoon build
- SpaceA weather bird for dispatchers gets a ride off the east coast
- DronesThe farm-drone register clears a summer of paper
- TechnologySaffron Air trials a one-percent blend and refuses to call it a transition
- TrainingTwo Indian academies lengthen the multi-engine phase and the queue grows