Skift
• Darin Graham
EngageAI, an AI-driven tool that sends real-time trip suggestions via WhatsApp, nudges corporate travellers toward cheaper, faster and lower‑carbon options. Projecting 1 million users in its first year, the service could shift business booking flows and intensify competition among carriers for corporate traffic.
Airways Magazine
• Meelad Aslam
By Airways Magazine: Aircraft maintenance exists within a paradigm shaped by operational urgency, safety requirements, and persistent cost pressure.
Breitflyte
• Joe Breitfeller
By Breitflyte: easyJet has today announced the launch of three new routes for summer 2026, including service from Newcastle to Lisbon and Rome Fiumicino, as well as between Manchester and Bari.
Airways Magazine
By Airways Magazine: Munich Airport opens its new Terminal 1 Pier in April, adding non-Schengen capacity, premium lounges, and modernized processing.
CNBC
• Leslie Josephs
By CNBC: Spirit Airlines is in talks with investment firm Castlelake for a potential takeover of the discount airline, which is in bankruptcy, CNBC has learned.
Airline Weekly
• Jay Shabat, Meghna Maharishi
By Airline Weekly: It's earnings season, and this week on the Airline Weekly Lounge, Jay Shabat and Meghna Maharishi break down Q4 2025 results from United and Delta. They.
Flying Magazine
• Meg Godlewski
By Flying Magazine: Proposed DPE regulation updates, impacting check rides and instructor certification, face January 23 comment deadline from FAA.
Reuters
• Rajesh Kumar Singh, Rajesh Singh
By Reuters: GE Aerospace CEO Larry Culp on Thursday defended the jet-engine industry's pricing practices against airline industry complaints that soaring maintenance costs and engine shortages are straining their businesses.
Leeham News
• Chris Sloan
