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KUWAIT AIRWAYS plans December 6 to begin Kuwait City-Washington Dulles (A330-800).

QANOT SHARQ AIRLINES, Uzbekistan leased ex-Air China A330-200 (1237) with Trents from Air Lease Corporation.

LATAM ordered 13 more A321neos, increasing its committed backlog to 76; first (11531) was delivered from AerCap.

EQUAIR, Ecuador has ceased operations after two years of service since late 2021; it served >16 routes with three 737s.

WESTJET GROUP expects to complete integration of SUNWING AIRLINES by October 2024; proceeding integration of SWOOP will be fully completed by October 28, 2023. The planned activity has no impact on Sunwing Vacations Group.

RYANAIR plans to build €100m pilot and cabin crew training center in Madrid with six 737 full-flight simulators.

AEROFLOT plans in December 2023 to begin Ekaterinburg-/Kazan-/Novosibirsk-Dubai (737-800).

PEGASUS AIRLINES took delivery of its 100th aircraft: A321neo (11515).

LAX handled 7m pax in August 2023, up 15.2% vs August 2022.

CATHAY GROUP, Hong Kong ordered 32 more A320neo Family aircraft and has now ordered 64 (13 delivered).

JALAN KALROCK CONSORTIUM (JKC) completed IN 350 crore equity infusion into India's JET AIRWAYS under court-approved resolution plan to take control of airline and restart operations in 2024 (date TBA); it shut down in mid-2019.

JETSTREAM AVIATION, Canada agreed to invest $13.5m (three tranches) into CANADA JETLINES for 50% share.