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Passenger Experience

What Is a Go-Around? Why Pilots Abort a Landing and Why It Is Usually Routine

Your plane is about to land, then the engines roar and it climbs away. A plain-English guide to the go-around, why pilots do it, and why it is a normal safety manoeuvre and not an emergency.

12 October 2026 · 5 minRajkumar Agarwal

Airlines

EasyJet's French Pilots Call a September 13-14 Strike — Weeks After Cabin Crew Won the Same Fight

EasyJet's French pilot union SNPL has called a two-day strike for September 13-14, just weeks after cabin crew won guaranteed schedule stability through their own walkout — and pilots say they've been offered nothing similar.

7 September 2026 · 11 minRajkumar Agarwal