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.

Accelya showed FLX Recover, built with AWS and RapidScale, at World Aviation Festival in Lisbon. It could be live in the first half of 2027, with airlines setting which actions are automatic and which need approval.

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.

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.

The Spanish-linked vendor's CEO says its training management system is tailored to each airline's own processes and was rolled out at Air Europa over a year. He also warns that CBTA adoption hinges on standardising instructors' assessment judgement.

Basair Aviation College's COO told APATS 2026 that maintaining instructor consistency over time is the real challenge. He names feedback as the hardest element to standardise and says failure data should be tracked per instructor and per course.

Halldale and T-C-Alliance are launching SCOPE, a two-day implementation workshop before EATS 2026, while the maintenance stream covers competency-based and digital CBTA delivery. Part-IS is the worked example for fitting new rules into training.