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IAM Rejects Boeing Offer; Strike Enters Third Month, Threatening Production and Deliveries

Reuters reports: Striking workers at Boeing Defense in the St. Louis area rejected the company's latest contract proposal on Sunday, sending a strike that has already delayed delivery of fighter jets and other programs into its 13th week.

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Last Updated: Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, 10:23 AM PDT

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AeroTime • Miquel Ros

Riyadh Air completes maiden passenger flight between Riyadh and London Heathrow

By AeroTime: Riyadh Air, the new national carrier of Saudi Arabia, completed its inaugural passenger flight on October 26, 2025. Flight RX401 departed Riyadh King Khalid International Airport (RUH) at 3.26am, landing at London Heathrow (LHR) six hours and 48 minutes later, all times local.

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aerotelegraph.com • Aero Telegraph Staff

Swiss takes off with its first Airbus A350 on inaugural passenger flight

By aerotelegraph.com: Die Schweizer Nationalairline hat am Samstagmorgen (25. Oktober) ihren ersten Airbus A350 offiziell in Betrieb genommen. Der Jet mit dem Namen Lausanne und mit dem Kennzeichen HB-IFA startete um 07.11 Uhr als Flug LX2152 von Zürich nach Palma de Mallorca - mit 233 Passagieren an Bord, die erstmals die neue Langstreckenkabine Swiss Sense» erleben konnten.

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Reuters • Kanishka Singh

Alaska Airlines requests temporary grounding of flights Thursday evening after tech outage, FAA says

By Reuters: U.S. carrier Alaska Airlines said Friday it had restored operations after a technology outage that grounded flights across the country and forced it to cancel more than 400 flights, disrupting travel for more than 49,000 passengers.

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