Airways Magazine
• Helwing Villamizar
United enters 2026 with higher profitability and greater strategic flexibility than American, despite the two carriers being similar in scale through 2025. The gap underscores how differences in revenue mix, cost control and network/fleet choices are producing immediate financial advantages for United.
Bloomberg
• Bailey Lipschultz, Eric Johnson, Kiel Porter, Ryan Gould
By Bloomberg: SpaceX is targeting filing confidentially for an initial public offering as soon as next month, according to people familiar with the matter, as billionaire Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company moves forward with plans for the biggest-ever listing.
Reuters
By Reuters: Fifteen people were killed and at least 30 more were injured on Friday evening after a Bolivian Air Force Hercules aircraft carrying new banknotes from the country's central bank crashed onto a busy avenue amid inclement weather in the city of El Alto, near Bolivia's capital La Paz, according to television reports.
AeroTime
• Stephen Pope
By AeroTime: Lufthansa CityLine pilots voted to authorize potential strike, its union said, after wage talks broke down.
Reuters
• David Shepardson
By Reuters: The Federal Aviation Administration plans to reduce flights at Chicago O'Hare airport this summer, saying major airlines have overscheduled flights, the agency said on Friday.
Delta Air Lines
By Delta Air Lines: Delta continues fleet renewal with additional narrowbody aircraft Delta Air Lines is advancing its long-term fleet modernization strategy by exercising options for 34 additional Airbus A321neo aircraft, reinforcing the A321neo’s role as a pillar of Delta’s next generation narrowbody fleet.
The Air Current
• Will Guisbond
By The Air Current: The struggling eVTOL developer will retain a skeleton crew in California focused on aircraft design.
Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
By Ars Technica: Launching SLS every three and a half years or so is not a recipe for success.".
Simple Flying
• Jake Hardiman
Reuters
• Joanna Plucinska, Raechel Job, Raechel Thankam Job
Reuters
• Catherine Cartier, Eleanor Whalley, Maria Laguna
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
