The privately owned carrier went to a Bucharest court on September 30 and is shedding six leased A220-300s, shrinking from eight aircraft to two A320s. Airports in Romania and Greece have already begun legal action over unpaid bills.

Kazakhstan's flag carrier will add a twice-weekly A321LR service to Bangkok on December 11 and a three-times-weekly A321neo route to Langkawi on December 25. The additions lift Kazakhstan-Thailand capacity to 20 weekly flights.

The Spanish low-cost carrier filed for preliminary creditor protection in Barcelona, leaving management in charge of talks with lenders. It blames a €150 million hit from the Hormuz closure for deepening its losses.

Nearly 650 Horizon Air pilots, represented by Teamsters Local 1224, held informational pickets at SEA and BOI on 14 October. The union cites wages, staffing and training shortages, and says it has bargained for close to four years.

Around 40 pilots on SpiceJet's Q400 fleet have reportedly refused to fly until salary arrears are paid. ALPA India backed them in a 9 October letter, and SpiceJet has not commented.

SNPVAC says about 80% of flights from Lisbon, Porto and Faro were scrapped on the first day, while easyJet expects to run roughly 55% of its schedule. The union calls the use of replacement crew from other bases illegal.

A third-party technology failure briefly disrupted Southwest's Amadeus passenger system on 9 October, forcing manual bag checks and boarding. Southwest said flights slowed rather than halted.

British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Vueling and LEVEL will all move onto OpenAirlines' SkyBreathe software, covering more than 600 aircraft group-wide. IAG says the shared system should surface fuel-saving opportunities faster than each airline tracking its own data separately.

An industry piece argues that no single person inside an airline's operations control centre has the complete picture during a disruption, since weather, crew, maintenance and network data all sit with different teams. It frames AI's role as pulling those fragmented signals together fast enough to keep pace with a live disruption.

The Turkish low-cost carrier paid €142.3 million, below the €154 million agreed in December, and now owns all of České aerolinie. Czech authorities required some Prague-Antalya summer slots to be handed to another airline.

They are the only two bidders left in Portugal's privatisation, and the government has two weeks to weigh the financial and strategic terms. Air France-KLM has pledged to keep TAP's brand and make Lisbon its southern European hub.

From two ageing 737s and heavy debt in 1998, the group is on course for about 64 million seats in 2026. OAG says its dollar-cost, weak-currency-revenue squeeze is the core risk.

Boeing's deliveries through September rose 8% on the year, driven by the 737 family, though Airbus remains ahead with 547. A Turkish Airlines order for 100 737 MAX jets dominated Boeing's September bookings.

The FAA confirmed to Reuters that Boeing paid the maximum $3.1 million civil penalty over widespread production and safety violations back in January, but the payment went undisclosed until the agency revealed it this week. The violations trace to the same 737 MAX 9 door-plug blowout that grounded much of the fleet in January 2024.

Boeing delivered 53 jets in July against Airbus's 67, keeping Airbus ahead by 51 aircraft for the year so far.

The captain, an Indian pilot with about 9,750 flight hours, is credited with opening the cockpit door; the alleged attacker had worked at flydubai for less than a year. An analyst says vetting is thorough but only a snapshot in time.

Passengers and crew overpowered the alleged attacker after the jet plunged about 14,000 feet, and a second flydubai crew landed it safely at Tabuk with 174 people aboard. The UAE attorney general has opened an investigation.

A technical fault at NATS' Prestwick centre disrupted flights across northern UK airports, and the CAA says the resulting delays likely won't qualify for passenger compensation. Airlines must still cover meals, hotels and rebooking for those affected.

Southwest Airlines has launched a plug-in that lets customers search for fares inside ChatGPT, then finish the purchase on its own website. It was developed with OpenAI and Amazon Web Services.

The airline went live on AMOSeTL in July after parallel testing that began in December, with every pilot, cabin crew member and mechanic trained by June. The system has separate pilot, cabin and maintenance modes.

The Lufthansa Technik-owned records specialist will roll out its DRM Next Generation platform across the low-cost carrier's 17 aircraft. The agreement was signed at MRO Asia-Pacific in Singapore.

An APATS interview with consultant Mark Dransfield previews a EATS 2026 session on EASA's FSTD Capability Signature. It would qualify simulators by the tasks they can support rather than by fixed device labels, starting in 2028.

Ten roundtables at a Heads of Training meeting in Bangkok kept naming instructors, not simulators or candidates, as the biggest pipeline risk. Participants said standardisation efforts focus on grading while neglecting instructional skill, and described fixes to the middle-grade habit.

United's Denver flight training centre runs 86 training platforms and trains under the FAA's Advanced Qualification Program. Its training leaders describe data-driven scenarios, a flight path management initiative, and a measured stance on VR and AI.