Aviation Daily Roundup: August 2, 2021

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While most airlines are busy targeting leisure travelers during the COVID-19 pandemic, United Airlines has seized on the crisis as an opportunity to reimagine itself as a premium airline brand. 

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Long-haul, low-cost startup Norse Atlantic Airways is to acquire a second tranche of leased aircraft in preparation for its planned launch in late 2021.

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Indonesian LCC Lion Air Group plans to furlough a significant proportion of its staff as the airline responds to a drop in capacity caused by the latest wave of COVID-19 cases.

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New U.S. carrier Avelo Airlines is using GE Digital’s flight data monitoring and processing service to help develop and validate data-driven safety and efficiency protocols in its fast-growing operation.   

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Despite Vietnam experiencing a fourth wave of COVID-19 cases, VietJet Air remained in profit through the first half of 2021. 

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Aviation technology provider SITA is preparing to expand the deployment of new systems intended to streamline the validation and acceptance of the health certificates that will be vital for international travel to properly resume.

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U.S. regional carrier ExpressJet plans to resume service before the end of September, the Atlanta-based airline has announced.

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Estonian carrier Nordica has launched scheduled services under its own air operator’s certificate and IATA code for the first time.

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South Korean startup Air Premia is seeking approval to launch service to the U.S. with plans to begin flights between Seoul Incheon (ICN) and Los Angeles (LAX) in 2022. 

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Airports all over China are taking sweeping measures to prevent the spread of a new COVID-19 outbreak, which has been traced back to cleaning staff working on an Air China flight that arrived at Nanjing Lukou Airport (NKG) from Moscow Sheremetyevo (SVO) on July 10.

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MOSCOW—A Yak-40LL testbed modified with a nose-mounted propeller driven by a 500 kW (680 hp) low-loss superconducting electric motor was demonstrated in flight for the first time at Russia’s MAKS 2021 airshow at Zhukovsky, Moscow, in late July.

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