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The TSA has launched Gateside by TSA PreCheck, a pilot letting eligible PreCheck members without a boarding pass through security at 13 US airports to see off family, meet layover passengers, or use gate-area shops.
Joby Aviation is flying piloted eVTOL routes across the Dallas-Fort Worth area this month, its first flights anywhere under the FAA's eVTOL Integration Pilot Program, from a new base at Fort Worth Alliance Airport.
JetBlue revealed BlueFirst, a new domestic first-class cabin with 12 to 16 seats per aircraft, up to seven inches of extra legroom, and priority perks at more than 30 airports, set to open for booking this fall.
Delta restarted JFK-Tel Aviv on September 6 and United followed with Newark service on September 8, ending roughly six months of suspended US flying to Israel — while American Airlines has pushed its own return all the way to March 2027.
Delta Flight 2311, a Boeing 737-900ER carrying 174 passengers and six crew, made an emergency descent after a cabin pressurization problem and diverted safely to Las Vegas; the cause has not yet been determined.
An Asiana Airlines Airbus A321-200 has entered domestic service wearing Korean Air's new blue livery while still carrying Asiana's name and logo, the first visible sign of a fleet-wide repaint ahead of the carriers' December 17 legal merger.
Portugal's government has opened a final round of negotiations with both Lufthansa and Air France-KLM over a stake in TAP Air Portugal, after ruling their July bids too close in value to pick one now.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH156, an Airbus A330-200 flying Kuala Lumpur to Jeddah, made an emergency landing at Chennai on September 7 after its right-hand engine developed a mid-flight fault; all 186 people aboard were unhurt and DGCA has opened an investigation.
IndiGo is preparing to start daily nonstop flights between Mumbai and Dar es Salaam in November, adding Tanzania as its fourth African market even as it winds down its Boeing 787 widebody flying to Europe.
The FAA handed out $481 million to 191 airports in 36 states ahead of Labor Day — the closing installment of a five-year, $14.5 billion federal program that expires September 30, with industry groups now lobbying Congress to keep the money flowing.
Embraer CEO Francisco Gomes Neto says the planemaker is studying a "maybe bigger" future jet without committing to a timeline, while Airbus's Guillaume Faury says entering the 170-to-180-seat market against Airbus, Boeing and COMAC would be "a big risk.
American Airlines put its first retrofitted Boeing 777-300ER into service on September 2, packing 70 Flagship Suite business-class seats with privacy doors onto a single aircraft — more premium seats than any other US carrier flies on one plane.