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AIR CANADA plans to raise US$552.6m in an EETC to finance pool of 16 aircraft delivered in 2001-2019: nine A321-200s; four 777s; and three 787-9s. It

ALTA members flew 9.9b RPKs in July, down 88.1% vs July 2019; capacity dropped 83.3% to 15.8b ASKs. Pax fell 87.6%.

GOL says it plans in September to return 14 737NGs to service to increase operating fleet to 74 (it has 130 737s). It has to date returned nine 737NGs

TRADE AIR, Croatia leased ex-Air Malta A320-200 (2189) with CFM56s from AerCap, and now has three A320s.

JETBLUE AIRWAYS plans in 4Q20 to launch 24 new routes and will reactivate temporarily parked aircraft for support.

AIR NEW ZEALAND now expects to ground its 777 fleet until at least September 2021; it has eight -200s and seven -300s.

AMAZON committed to lease (CMI) first six converted 767-300Fs (of 12 agreed upon in May 2020) from CAM for operation by ATI; first was delivered with

UNITED AIRLINES reached agreement with ALPA on cost concessions to eliminate furloughs due to COVID-19 pandemic.

US DOT says US scheduled pax airlines employed 706,824 workers in July vs 699,723 in June 2020 and 743,917 in July 2019.

UNITED AIRLINES plans in December 2020 to begin Chicago-New Delhi (787). It then plans in 2021 to begin Washington Dulles-Accra/-Lagos; SFO-Bangalore