Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
Ryanair reportedly sacked a captain at its Barcelona hub after he invoked his legal authority to extend cabin crew rest using a “Commander’s Discretion” provision. The extended rest was triggered after cabin crew worked beyond normal working hours under the special rule.
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.
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.
Reuters
• David Shepardson
By Reuters: Major U.S. airlines will need to retrofit planes by the end of 2030 to address potential wireless interference after a new auction of wireless spectrum, but the carriers will be eligible for as much as $2.2 billion in government rebates to cover the costs, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday.
Reuters
By Reuters: Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer said on Friday its firm order backlog hit a record of $34.5 billion at the end of the second quarter, up 16% from a year earlier.
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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.
Bloomberg
• Allyson Versprille
By Bloomberg: Airlines and other aircraft operators will get up to $5.7 billion in rebates to offset the cost of installing altimeters that can withstand 5G interference after the US government auctions off valuable spectrum for wireless services next year.
The Air Current
• Brian Garrett-Glaser, Jon Ostrower
By The Air Current: LONDON — As Europe aggressively advances its sovereign defense capabilities amid fraught transatlantic relations, Airbus continues to reluctantly accept the necessity of pricing its aircraft in the still-dominant U.S.
Reuters
• Abhijith Ganapavaram, Aditya Kalra
