I’m at the Skift Global Travel Forum in NYC where we’ve been hearing from airline, tech, hospitality CEOs…and now suddenly a surprise keynote from Prince Harry 👀 @skift

Oman and Azerbaijan stopped Iranian airlines from operating flights to their countries, while Iraq has banned flights to its capital. Mahan Air, one of Iran's largest carriers, also suspended flights to and from Istanbul, Ankara and Muscat. ft.trib.al/OrBnliL

Pleased to join Bloomberg QEF in New York City during #UNGA week - as geopolitics adds close to $100 billion to the aviation sector’s fuel bill this year, airlines are continuing to navigate an an evolving + incredibly complex operating environment…

“Fuel is definitely something we're all closely monitoring. Jet fuel is about $182 today. About 90% increase from Feb 28th,” says @qatarairways CEO Hamad Ali Al-Khater. But he says “We're not passing that cost to our customers at this stage in time.”

Qatar’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said Gulf states must work together to restore stability in the region and help find a settlement between the US and Iran. “We are hoping this war is a wake-up call for everyone,” he said. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Italy’s Catania Airport has suspended arrivals until 4 p.m. local time on Monday due to volcanic activity from nearby Mount Etna bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Once again, yet another technical failure at the UK’s Air Traffic Control Service provider (NATS) means significant flight disruption ahead for both departures and arrivals as UK forced to reduce & regulate air traffic in airspace.

RT @NATS: ℹ️ Technical issue We are investigating a technical issue which is causing some disruption to flight departures. Our engineers…

Trump threatens to block US sales of Canadian plane maker Bombardier unless it builds aircraft in the US u.afp.com/SjUR

US FAA confirm 21 Air (Amazon Prime Air) Flight 7598, a Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft, overran the runway after landing at Miami International Airport around 2pm local

21 Air Flight 7598 overran the runway after landing at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, Sept. 6. The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft departed from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The FAA will investigate. Contact the airline for additional information.

6 months in, Gulf airlines continue to demonstrate incredible resilience amid airspace restrictions, geopolitical uncertainty & conditions that would genuinely break other airlines… 🎧 Talking to Monocle’s The Globalist podcast about the reshaping of Middle East aviation ✈️

Earlier today, Airlink performed a pre-match flyover at DHL Stadium in Cape Town. Our lowest recorded ADS-B altitude was 50 ft at standard pressure, or approximately 205–210 ft AMSL when corrected for the local QNH of 1019 hPa. With DHL Stadium standing about 164 ft tall near sea level, that puts the aircraft roughly 41–46 ft (12.5–14 m) above the top of the stadium.

Incredible

South Korea's Incheon airport beats Heathrow to become world's busiest bbc.in/4bI6f6u

We're lucky enough to experience the eclipse again, as we reach totality in León, Spain.

Watch the live stream from the @Iberia A321XLR below and follow the path of the aircraft at flightradar24.com/IBE1473/41…

a few very cool things are happening across Spain today for the eclipse: - a team of SpaceX employees has taken over the stunning Parador de Lerma in Burgos to follow the event - NASA has turned a 12th-century church into its eclipse operations hub - Iberia is operating a special eclipse-viewing flight (IB1473, Copernicus’s birth year btw) with a live stream from the sky what a day