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Last Updated: Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, 10:03 AM PST
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AINonline
• Matt Thurber
Canada Budget Eliminates Punitive Luxury Tax on Aircraft, Boats
By AINonline: 10% assessment resulted in fewer aircraft sales in the country.
AINonline
• Amy Wilder
Business Aviation Experts Warn of Risks from Illegal Charter and Jet-Sharing
By AINonline: Panel urges unity across legal operators.
FlightGlobal
• Dominic Perry
Sora advances 30‑passenger S‑1 electric tiltrotor; full‑size propulsion ground tests due 2026, first flight targeted 2028
By FlightGlobal: UK start-up Sora Aviation is progressing towards critical milestones on its 30-passenger S-1 electric tiltrotor, with ground tests of its full-size propulsion system due to begin next year.
Bloomberg Law
• Lara Sanli
Spirit Airlines Reaches Tentative Agreements with Pilots and Flight Attendants; Senior Leadership Agrees to Matched Pay Cuts
By Bloomberg Law: Spirit’s senior leadership has committed to taking a salary reduction at a percentage not less than the pilot group’s reduction upon ratification of a tentative agreement with pilots.
ch-aviation
Spirit reaches deal with pilots and flight attendants in Chapter 11, cuts additional salaried roles
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
Spirit Secures Financing After Pilots and Flight Attendants Approve Contract Concessions
ch-aviation
• CH-Aviation Staff
Brazil’s deputy chamber approves free checked baggage bill
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Joby Aviation
Joby To Sell up to $250 Million of Aircraft and Services in Kazakhstan
By Joby Aviation: Joby Aviation today announced it has signed a letter of intent to sell electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and services valued at up to $250 million to Alatau Advance Air Group (“AAAG”), a company dedicated to introducing air taxis to Kazakhstan.
AeroTime
• Goda Labanauskaite
Airbus delivery push falters — 235 jets still needed to meet 2025 target after October’s 78 deliveries
By AeroTime: Airbus delivered 78 aircraft in October, reaching 585 this year, but with 235 still to go, meeting its 820-jet target for 2025 may prove difficult.
