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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.
Riga International Airport has moved its passenger terminal expansion into construction, a €98 million, four-stage project meant to lift annual capacity from around 8 million to roughly 12 million passengers by 2030.
United rolled out a digital standby feature, live TSA wait-time estimates, and AirTag-powered bag tracking in its app on September 1, 2026, timed to a Labor Day weekend expected to carry 3.4 million of its customers.
SpiceJet has signed lease deals for 15 Boeing and 5 Airbus A321 aircraft to nearly triple its operating fleet from 11 to about 31 jets in time for the winter schedule, after losing its remaining 737 MAX 8s to lessor repossession.
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.
ANA Holdings and Embraer signed a firm order for eight additional E190-E2 jets worth $642 million, lifting the Japanese carrier's total E2 commitment to 23 aircraft as deliveries stretch from 2028 into 2032.
A 26-year-old Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-700 dropped 30,000 feet after departing Santa Ana on September 6, declaring an emergency and diverting safely to Fresno; the cause is still under evaluation.