Breitflyte
• Joe Breitfeller
Etihad Airways says it will add service to six new African destinations from Abu Dhabi, including routes to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ghana, Nigeria and Zimbabwe. The expansion broadens Etihad’s Africa network and creates fresh city pairs to feed its hub connectivity.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: !a group of airplanes parked on a runway.
Bloomberg
• Danny Lee, Kate Duffy, Sri Taylor
By Bloomberg: Airline passengers should brace for more aggravation in the next few months as carriers around the world deepen cancellations and ground planes to cope with stratospheric increases in jet-fuel prices.
Reuters
By Reuters: American Airlines said on Friday that it was not interested in a merger with United Airlines and had not held any such talks, diminishing prospects of an industry-reshaping deal that would face tough regulatory scrutiny.
Dj's Aviation
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: A constant beeping noise coming from an object on a United Airlines flight from Chicago O’Hare to New York LaGuardia concerned the pilots of the Boeing 737MAX plane so much that they declared a potential bomb threat and made an emergency diversion to Pittsburgh International Airport.
Reuters
• Julia Payne
By Reuters: The European Union will urge members to cut their dependence on Middle Eastern jet fuel and look into increasing imports from the U.S., in new guidelines expected next week, an official source told Reuters, as the Iran war disrupts global supply.
The Air Current
• Will Guisbond
By The Air Current: The Federal Aviation Administration is quietly developing a new artificial intelligence-powered software tool for air traffic management that could fundamentally change how the U.S.
Breitflyte
• Joe Breitfeller
By Breitflyte: Air India has announced the signing of a new interline agreement with WestJet that will unlock access for customers to over 30 WestJet destinations across Canada and the U.S.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
Associated Press
• Gene Johnson, Josh Funk
