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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.

Faulty wiring to a fuel probe appears to be a key factor in an engine-out incident involving a Danish Air Transport ATR 42-500 on a night flight from Esbjerg to Billund, Denmark, on March 17.

Air Djibouti is set to resume commercial service next week after taking delivery Aug. 11 of its first Boeing 737 at Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport.

Following a lull in installations owing to heavy demand on commercial passenger jets this summer, providers of inflight Wi-Fi like Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE), Gogo and Panasonic Avionics are expected to renew the process in earnest this fall.

LONDON—BAE Systems Regional Aircraft said 3–4 operators are interested in a freighter conversion of its Avro RJ family of regional airliners. &n

China Airlines says it will begin receiving six Boeing 737-800s leased from BOC Aviation in September.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), relaxing its safety-focused ban on new airlines, may approve 1–2 carriers setting up this year, industry sources said.

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In a strongly worded supplemental filing with the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT), Southwest defended its position that any slot divestitures should go to a U.S. based LCC and not to American—a mainline carrier—or to Mexican LCC Volaris.

Shanghai-based LCC Spring Airlines plans to grow its fleet to 100 aircraft by 2018 to meet growing market demand.

Air Berlin’s second-quarter operating loss quadrupled, adding to the pressure to find new sources of funding soon.

Biz Airlines, a new “business travel company,” announced on Aug. 8 its launch as the first company to combine a commercial and private jet database to help make business travel more time and cost efficient.

Embraer plans to reduce its work force through a “voluntary dismissal program” for employees in Brazil in light of a challenging global aerospace environment.

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American Airlines has named former Vivalatinamerica CEO Joe Mohan to the post of vice president–alliances and partnerships, effective Aug. 15.