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Turkish Airlines said its first-half 2018 load factor reached the highest level in its history, with a 4.3-point year-over-year (YOY) increase to 80.4%, helped by a 17.8% YOY increase in passenger traffic during the January-June period to 35.6 million passengers.

Thai Airways will reportedly order 23 aircraft this year, in a move the airline has signaled for several months.

Singapore Airlines (SIA) has revealed that its second nonstop route to the U.S. using Airbus A350-900ULRs will launch on Nov. 2, with the flight from Singapore to Los Angeles replacing one of its two one-stop services between the cities.

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JetBlue Airways, providing a major boost to the newly rebranded Airbus A220 line and delivering a notable blow to Embraer, placed an order for 60 A220-300s and earmarked them as E190 replacements.

One crew member was killed and about 19 people injured when a twin-engine Convair CV-340 airliner crashed July 10 outside of Wonderboom Airport, near Pretoria, South Africa, according to media reports.

ATR is developing a new version of the ATR 42-600’s and ATR 72-600’s multifunction computer (MFC) and is promising it will make maintenance more straightforward.

Southwest Airlines grew ASMs 3.3% year-over-year (YOY) in the second quarter, with a weak June cementing results that came in below its early June projection of 3.5%—the latest sign that the carrier’s 2018 growth will be on the lower end of its guidance.

Virgin Australia is making rapid progress on its deployment of inflight Wi-Fi on its narrowbody and widebody aircraft fleets.

Air Malta’s board has decided to appoint Clifford Chetcuti as CEO, starting Sept. 1.

Icelandair Group lowered its EBITDA guidance for 2018 by $50 million because of slower-than-expected yield growth and higher fuel costs.

Pilots at Allegiant Air are threatening to strike over what they claim is foot-dragging by the company on installing a new crew schedule-bidding system, while the airline insists that the process is moving along.

Airbus hopes to secure “several hundred" additional orders for the newly renamed A220—formerly the Bombardier C Series—this year, according to Eric Schulz, Airbus' chief commercial officer.

The U.S. Treasury Department has designated for sanctions a Malaysia-based ticketing agent that does business with Iranian airline Mahan Air, which the department accuses of supporting terrorism.

Air traffic and en-route delays both increased last year in Europe, according to an annual review of air traffic management (ATM) performance.

Beijing’s new airport at Daxing, on the southern side of the city, will go into operation on Sept. 30, 2019, officials have decided.

FAA is lagging in resolving security risks that could affect the availability of data communications (DataComm) linking pilots and controllers, the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) Office of the Inspector General (IG) reported.

Canadian North and First Air have announced plans to merge—the latest step in the carriers’ efforts to combine their services to best meet the needs of communities in the Canadian arctic.

French aircraft accident agency BEA voiced its differences with Egyptian authorities over the May 2016 crash of an EgyptAir Airbus A320 over the Mediterranean.

Gulf Air has canceled its order for 10 Bombardier CS100s.

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Ethiopian Airlines took delivery of its first Boeing 737-8, the first of 30 of the type the carrier has on order.

Long-haul growth at two of its three airports saw Manchester Airports Group (MAG) return an increased net profit from continuing operations for its 2017-18 financial year of £122.5 million ($161.9 million), up from £117.4 million in the prior year.