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Korean Air is making steady progress toward modernizing its fleet, with an influx of freighters soon expected to follow the recent arrival of new passenger widebody aircraft.

BOSTON—With regulatory approvals in place, Gogo is now readying to provide connectivity services on international flights entering or leaving China. &

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Regulations surrounding the carriage of lithium batteries—which have been implicated in several fires aboard airliners—must be more strictly enforced, IATA and battery manufacturers said Aug. 15.

American said the DOT should require Delta to operate the flight daily with the 291-seat Boeing 777, and that Delta should not be allowed to downgauge the size of the aircraft or deviate from a daily flight.

United Airlines’ flight attendants will now work under a single contract for the first time since the carrier merged with Continental Airlines in 2010.

LATAM Airlines Group reported a $92.1 million net loss for the 2016 second quarter, deeper than the group’s $49.7 million net loss in 2Q 2015.

The University of Oklahoma and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will lead the FAA's newest Transportation Center of Excellence.

Indonesia’s transport ministry says the FAA has upgraded the country to a Category 1 safety rating, which will clear the way for Garuda Indonesia to resume flights to the U.S.

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Delta Air Lines said Aug. 11 that its operations had normalized, following a reservation system outage that caused hundreds of cancellations and delays.

Brussels Airlines is starting to look at options to renew its widebody fleet, but diversifying with Boeing long-haul twinjets is highly unlikely.

By the second half of 2018, all 20 Atlas 767Fs dedicated to Amazon are expected to be in service.

V Air’s business was mainly leisure oriented. It operated most routes daily, or almost daily.

Malindo is not commenting on its Jeddah strategy, but its application could indicate plans to add widebody aircraft.

In recent years, the airline has repeatedly signaled that it intends to relaunch flights to Europe, with London being the destination most discussed by AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes.

Kuala Lumpur will be Dragonair’s third destination in Malaysia, after Penang and Kota Kinabalu.

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Delta will axe certain flights into its Tokyo Narita Airport hub this fall, following tentative awards for daytime frequencies at the city’s closer-in Haneda Airport.

United Arab Emirates-based LCC Air Arabia recorded a first-half net profit of 245 million dirhams ($66.7 million), up 3.5% compared to the same period last year.

Spirit Airlines is making a number of executive changes at the carrier, as new CEO Robert Fornaro settles into his job.

Norwegian Air International (NAI) is appealing to European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc to help the carrier make its case for starting U.S. service.