Vanilla Air, Japan’s newest low-cost carrier, has taken delivery of its first Airbus A320 on lease from AWAS.

Boeing won a key legislative victory over the weekend when Washington state lawmakers approved a package of tax incentives requested by Jay Inslee, the state’s governor, to help entice Boeing Commercial Airplanes to build the 777X at its facilities in the Seattle area.

Mobile satellite communications specialist Inmarsat has announced the first of its Global Xpress satellites—designated Inmarsat-5 F1—has traveled from California to the launch site in Kazakhstan.

Thai Airways, which is due to receive its first Boeing 787-8 in May 2014, has sought reassurances from Boeing following 787 reliability issues among existing operators.

The second Boeing 787-9 test aircraft completed its first test flight Thursday.

Luxembourg-based Luxair will finalize its future fleet strategy by mid-2014, with the Bombardier CSeries and Q400, Embraer E2 and the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) emerging as possible contenders.

Airbus has completed assembling the engine pylon for its first A320neo in St. Eloi in Toulouse.

GE Aviation has signed an agreement to purchase cellulosic synthetic biofuel from the Washington DC-based D’Arcinoff Group, to be used for production and development testing of GE jet engines.