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• Dirk Andrei Salcedo
Korean Air and Jeju Air have secured loan guarantees from the US, according to a report. The available information does not specify the guarantees’ value, terms, purpose or how they will affect either airline’s financing plans.
FlightGlobal
• Jon Hemmerdinger
By FlightGlobal: Regulator has a 'great plan' that will not suffer the same fate as the troubled predecessor programme, Bedford says.
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• Luciano Braganca
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• Dirk Andrei Salcedo
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Wall Street Journal
• Bojan Pancevski
By Wall Street Journal: BERLIN—A massive cargo plane, used to carry military assistance to Ukraine and parked at an airfield in eastern Germany, was attacked by explosive-packed drones in early August.
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• Dirk Andrei Salcedo
By ch-aviation: Vietnam Airlines (VN, Hanoi Noi Bai International) is reportedly seeking to lease twenty to twenty-five A321-200N aircraft to support a return to the low-cost market as early as 2027, Bloomberg reported on October 16 citing unnamed sources familiar with the plans.
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• Dirk Andrei Salcedo
By ch-aviation: Air Calédonie (TY, Nouméa Magenta) has secured a six-month extension of the observation period in its court-supervised restructuring, until mid-April 2027.
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• Dirk Andrei Salcedo
By ch-aviation: Air Tahiti (VT, Papeete) has received its first all-business class ATR72-600, F-OPFO (msn 1821), which arrived at Papeete on October 19, 2026, following a six-day ferry flight from Toulouse Francazal.
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• Matt Thurber
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• Murdo Morrison
