Allegiant agrees to buy Sun Country Airlines in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.5 billion including debt.

Aer Lingus suspended sales of transatlantic flights from Manchester from late March 2026 as it weighs the future of long-haul operations from the UK airport.

IAG CFO Nicholas Cadbury plans to leave the business in June and will be replaced by José Antonio Barrionuevo, the group announced Jan. 9.

Israel’s second-largest airline, Israir, has entered widebody operations and returned to the U.S. market.

The deterioration in China-Japan relations is increasingly evident not only in diplomatic rhetoric and trade measures, but in a rapidly shrinking air corridor that had only recently recovered to pre-pandemic levels.

Jin Air is launching codeshare operations with Air Busan, representing a preliminary step toward the planned merger of the two LCCs.

Kenya Airways is advancing plans to grow its air cargo business by introducing Boeing 767 freighters to its fleet.

More developments in Nigeria’s regional airline sector approach, with yet more states in the West African country seeking to create a new regional carrier.