Aviation Daily Roundup: August 17

Turkish Airlines is in talks with Boeing and Airbus to delay aircraft deliveries that had been planned over the next three years.

Ireland-based carrier CityJet is seeking new opportunities in the European regional market, following its exit last week from the country’s examinership process, the local equivalent of Chapter 11.

Japan’s two major airlines are continuing to trim down their domestic schedules as a second wave of COVID-19 cases dampens the country’s demand rebound.

UK LCC easyJet has raised £608 million ($771 million) from the sale and leaseback of 23 Airbus A320 family aircraft, increasing its fundraising total to over £2.4 billion since the COVID-19 crisis took hold.

Airbus has decided to drop CTT Systems’ Dry Air Generation System (DAGS) moisture control system from the A321XLR, favoring instead its own passive condensation reduction technology.

Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed an order to increase the scope of the country’s subsidized flying program.

Major Chinese airlines are increasingly encroaching on each other’s turf, despite former official reluctance to let them do so.

The Singaporean government will support local airlines with another S$187 million ($136 million) in relief to tide over the aviation sector to March 2021 as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on.

The UAE is creating a new legal framework for the integration of unmanned air vehicles into its air traffic, in what it says is the first such system in the world.

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) is aiming to complete its revised SEK14.25 billion ($1.64 billion) recapitalization by November, after providing fresh terms to appease commercial investors who balked at the company’s original proposal.