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Aviation Performance Solutions, a provider of upset prevention and recovery training, has launched two Airbus-specific UPRT programs to counter the continued threat of loss of control inflight accidents.

Lufthansa plans to pay only about half the regular passenger fees on routes it will operate in direct competition with Ryanair, according to company sources.

While the Airbus A321LR is taking a leading role in Air Astana’s fleet, the carrier is considering whether it still wants three Boeing 787s that it ordered in 2012.

The SIA Group will add four new Indian destinations to its network as a result of the Vistara codeshare.

Turkish Airlines is slowing down its planned capacity growth further over the next five years, as the airline struggles to cope with the fallout of Turkey’s strained political relations.

Boeing’s decision to set up a Chinese completion center for 737s is likely to be rewarded with orders from an airline based in the same province.

The first stage of the complex will include a four-bay maintenance hangar and a paint hangar. IIAC will lease land to the maintenance hangar tenant, which will be responsible for its construction and operation.

“The 30 Boeing 737 MAXs in our portfolio provide the competitive advantages of fuel efficiency, reliability and passenger experience [our customers] are looking for in the single-aisle airplane,” CDB Aviation CEO Peter Chang said.

The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) has granted American Airlines’ request to delay the start of its proposed Los Angeles-Beijing service until Sept. 16.

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The Chinese carrier regards its first widebody aircraft type, the Airbus A330-300, as merely transitional.

Delta Air Lines has completed a cash tender offer on the Mexican Stock Exchange to increase its stake in Aeromexico.

Cebu Pacific is making contingency plans to handle potential further delays to its Airbus A321neo deliveries, which could disrupt the carrier’s fleet and network strategy.

American Airlines plans to break ground on a line maintenance hangar at Sao Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport later this year.

A new LCC startup plans to enter the crowded South Korean market, and has ordered eight Airbus A320s to establish its fleet.

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Labor and materials costs are seen rising until 2019, when they could flatten.

Subsidized competition has anticompetitive effects, hurts consumers in the long run, and undermines U.S. airline growth and American jobs.

Airbus and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) have agreed to research possible improvements to the A330 MRTT tanker, focusing initially on automatic operation of the refueling boom.

Southwest Airlines now expects its first-quarter revenue per available seat-mile to be down 2–3% year-over-year, the airline said in a March 10 traffic update.

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Alitalia’s board believes the airline’s relaunch business plan is “serious and realistic,” and should win final approval next week, the airline said in a statement.