Aviation Daily Roundup: May. 18, 2023

Mesa Air Group is still actively working on getting its European subsidiary Flite up and running, after its first customer “backed off,” executives say.

Pilots at Air Canada are close to deciding if they’ll open up contract talks a year early this September. 

Royal Jordanian Airlines has firmed an order for eight Embraer E2 regional jets, with deliveries expected to begin later in 2023.

For those suppliers who know both the automotive and aerospace sectors, the difference in manufacturing performance is striking. 

The European Commission (EC) has formally confirmed it has objections to the proposed Korean Air-Asiana merger, a tie-up it views may be anti-competitive on some Europe-South Korea routes.

German aerospace center DLR plans to build a new indoor facility for full-scale crash and impact testing of helicopters and electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

European LCC easyJet’s long-term fleet requirements include a contractual commitment to lease 11 further midlife Airbus A320ceo aircraft for delivery between May and October, the start of the airline's fiscal 2024 first quarter.