AeroTime
• Miquel Ros
Air Astana plans to add nonstop services from both Almaty and Astana to Salalah, Oman, expanding its international network. The weekly flights are scheduled to begin on October 23 from Almaty and October 24 from Astana.
Wall Street Journal
• Summer Said
By Wall Street Journal: DUBAI—A missile attack on Saudi Arabia’s international airport killed at least 12 people and injured hundreds more on Saturday, in strikes carried out by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants to which the kingdom’s military vowed a response.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: A United Airlines Boeing 777-200 with as many as 276 passengers on board made a “steep descent” as it was flying over the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of Saturday morning after the main cockpit windscreen cracked as the plane was flying at approximately 37,000 feet.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: In a major new update, the Attorney General for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has revealed that Hamam al-Hammami, the Omani First Officer of Flydubai flight FZ-1073, who attacked his Captain with a crash axe and attempted to take control of the packed airliner, was radicalized while living in Australia.
Wall Street Journal
• Alison Sider
By Wall Street Journal: Fuel is taking a chunk out of Delta Air Lines’ DAL 0.04%increase; up pointing triangle profits. The carrier on Friday sharply lowered its outlook for the year, reflecting a $6 billion increase in fuel costs.
CNBC
• Alexa LoMonaco
By CNBC: CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Delta's disappointing headline numbers overshadowed signs of strength, as the carrier managed to keep adjusted pretax profit roughly flat despite a sharp increase in fuel costs.
Reuters
• Federico Maccioni, Timour Azhari
By Reuters: The organisers of two major Saudi energy and investment conferences said their events will go ahead this month and reassured visitors on security, after missile attacks on Riyadh's airport left four people dead and an airliner heavily damaged this week.
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Reuters
• Allison Lampert, Rajesh Kumar Singh
Wall Street Journal
• Georgi Kantchev, Stephen Kalin, Summer Said
