SpaceNews.com
• Debra Werner, Emma Gatti
Small satellite operators confront a bottleneck to space access
By SpaceNews.com: For years, small satellite manufacturers have built their business plans around the idea that SpaceX could launch their payload to space. Through its Falcon 9 Transporter and Bandwagon rideshare missions, SpaceX offered frequent, reliable and inexpensive transportation to sun-synchronous and mid-inclination orbits.
Breaking Defense
• Frank Kendall
Frank Kendall on the trouble with banning autonomous weapons [Book excerpt]
By Breaking Defense: Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall discusses whether effective arms control can be applied to autonomous systems in this book excerpt.
Bloomberg
• Peyton Forte
US Airline Stocks Erase Pandemic-Era Losses as Oil Prices Ease
By Bloomberg: A popular gauge of the US airline industry has finally recovered from pandemic-era losses after six years, as progress on a peace deal between US and Iran pushed oil prices lower and eased the pressure on carriers’ profitability.
Skift
• Gordon Smith
IAG's €1 Billion Loyalty Ambition Depends More on Banks Than Airlines
By Skift: Skift speaks with IAG Loyalty CEO Adam Daniels and CFO Darryl Cartmell about the company’s plan to turn it into a billion-euro profit engine.
AirInsight
• Addison Schonland
A220-300 vs. E195-E2: A Tale of Two Snapshots
By AirInsight: Two OEMs, one market, and metrics that tell opposite stories depending on the year. AirInsight scores the A220-300 vs. E195-E2 with data, not marketing.
Bloomberg
• Sanjai P R
Billionaire Adani to Invest $2.1 Billion to Build Airport Cities
By Bloomberg: Billionaire Gautam Adani’s airport unit will invest 200 billion rupees ($2.1 billion) to build integrated cities across its network as the ports-to-power conglomerate expands into non-aviation businesses.
AeroTime
• Ian Molyneaux
IATA’s four stage solution to future engine MRO bottlenecks
By AeroTime: The IATA has released a new report looking at engine (MRO) bottlenecks, an issue that has dogged commercial aviation over recent years.
