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A United Airlines Boeing 767-300ER flying from Nice to Newark declared a general emergency over the English Channel on September 9 and diverted to London Heathrow, where it landed safely.
A flight-processing glitch at Britain's air traffic control provider cancelled roughly 2,000 flights over two days, and Ryanair and Wizz Air are now openly calling for NATS chief Martin Rolfe to quit after the third major system collapse in three years.
GE Aerospace has agreed to buy castings maker Consolidated Precision Products for $11.75 billion, pulling a 15-year supplier of LEAP and GEnx engine parts in-house to secure capacity strained by record engine demand.
Frontier Airlines lowered its top Elite Diamond status requirement from 100,000 to 75,000 points, but paired the move with earning-rate cuts of up to 90% on Basic fares and new fees for perks elites once got for free.
Cathay Pacific and Google say a joint trial of AI-guided altitude adjustments across more than 80 flights cut the estimated warming impact of contrails by roughly 40% — and Cathay is now the first airline to test the approach on ultra-long-haul routes.
ASUR has closed its roughly $992 million acquisition of Motiva's airport interests, adding 20 airports and about 45 million annual passengers to its network in one of the largest airport ownership shifts in Latin America this year.
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.