Aviation Source
• Len Varley
United Airlines is reportedly discussing an acquisition of up to 20 early-built Boeing 777-9 aircraft, according to the report, following Emirates’ refusal to accept its first delivery batch. The potential deal would shift 777-9 supply to a new customer while reshaping near-term widebody delivery plans.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: An American Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner with as many as 284 passengers on board made an emergency landing in Dublin, Ireland, on Saturday afternoon after six of the eight flight attendants on the service from Rome to Philadelphia reportedly felt ill as the plane started its transatlantic service.
Runway Girl
• Mary Kirby
By Runway Girl: Bluebox has "unboxed" its Blueview software suite to create Blueview Cloud, which pipes an airline's branded portal and digital services over IFC.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: The European low-cost behemoth, Ryanair, allegedly sacked a Captain based at the airline’s Barcelona hub who used his legal authority to extend the rest period for a group of cabin crew who had worked beyond normal working hours under a special provision called ‘Commander’s Discretion.’.
AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
By AeroTime: France has committed an Airbus A400M with a retardant drop kit to the Gironde wildfire, days after signing an experimental agreement with Airbus.
Reuters
• Kanishka Singh
By Reuters: The U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday that a Kenmore Air seaplane in Washington state with 11 people on board made an emergency landing near Sucia Island before catching fire, but everyone on the plane was accounted for after a rescue operation.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: British Airways is moving crew out of its layover hotel in the Indian city of Hyderabad after all three pilots of a return flight to London Heathrow suffered violent food poisoning at 35,000 feet, with one pilot becoming so sick that he became “incapacitated” and had to be put on oxygen.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
By FlightGlobal: Brazilian probe finds strained resources and pressure to meet flight schedules meant aircraft were knowingly released and operated in degraded condition.
Reuters
• Sarah Young, Tim Hepher
The Air Current
• Brian Garrett-Glaser, Jon Ostrower
Associated Press
• Mauricio Savarese
AeroTime
• Jean Carmela Lim
