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• Luciano Braganca
Wheels Up has closed a $100 million term loan backed by Delta Air Lines, completing a deal first flagged in early May 2026. Separately, the charter operator said it is open to scaling into larger-aircraft services in the future, alongside premium-focused customer offerings.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: Viasat will equip two aircraft in NOAA’s “Hurricane Hunter” program with a hybrid satcom solution under a new award from Lockheed Martin. Hurricane.
PaxEx.Aero
• Seth Miller
By PaxEx.Aero: Mexico’s Viva will bring its fleet online, selecting SES to provide inflight internet service on board. The offering includes the low-profile Gilat Sidewinder antenna, connecting to the SES GEO satellite constellation as well as LEO services from Eutelsat Oneweb.
AINonline
By AINonline: It may have a future as an uncrewed surveillance platform.
Skift
• Meghna Maharishi
By Skift: Anderson said Allegiant was considering other areas to grow non-ticket revenue but added that the company would share more on those initiatives during an investor day later this year or early next year.
AirInsight
• Ernest Arvai
By AirInsight: Swiss, a launch customer for the A220, has elected to part out two A220-100 aircraft that are less than ten years old due to continuing GTF engine issues.
Skift
• Adriana Lee
By Skift: Learn how AI influences travel search costs, reshaping the economics of booking across the industry.
Reuters
• Feras Dalatey, Joanna Plucinska
By Reuters: Syria recorded nearly 12,000 aircraft transits in May as regional airlines rerouted around airspace disrupted by conflict in the Middle East and into skies that most carriers had avoided for more than a decade.
