Runway Girl
• Mary Kirby
Bluebox is shifting its Blueview software suite to a cloud offering—Blueview Cloud—aimed at improving ROI for connected aircraft. The platform routes an airline’s branded portal and digital services through IFC, positioning in-flight connectivity as a channel for customer-facing applications.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: The European low-cost behemoth, Ryanair, allegedly sacked a Captain based at the airline’s Barcelona hub who used his legal authority to extend the rest period for a group of cabin crew who had worked beyond normal working hours under a special provision called ‘Commander’s Discretion.’.
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.
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.
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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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.
Reuters
• Abhijith Ganapavaram, Aditya Kalra
Associated Press
• Mauricio Savarese
