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Deutsche Lufthansa has surrendered Germanwings' Air Operator Certificate, formally closing a carrier that last flew commercially six years ago as the group consolidates its low‑cost operations under the Eurowings umbrella. The move removes a paper airline and simplifies the group's legal‑operational structure.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: Three passengers from a JetBlue flight are suing Airbus for negligence after an autopilot glitch caused a dangerous altitude drop.
aercap.com
By aercap.com: Net income of $633 million, or $3.79 per share, for the fourth quarter of 2025 and $3.8 billion, or $21.30 per share, for the full year 2025.…...
Airline Weekly
• Gordon Smith, Jay Shabat
By Airline Weekly: In this week's show, Gordon and Jay discuss the latest results from Japan's two mega-airline groups. With inbound visitor numbers soaring, but domestic.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: Flights at Berlin Brandenburg Airport are suspended for a second consecutive day due to hazardous freezing rain and black ice conditions.
AeroTime
• Goda Labanauskaite
By AeroTime: Air India has launched its first flagship lounge, ‘The Maharaja’, at Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) in New Delhi.
FlightGlobal
• Lewis Harper
By FlightGlobal: Icelandair Group is keen to secure new collective agreements with key employees, after a loss-making 2025 in which the weaker US dollar against the Icelandic krona weighed on its profitability while exacerbating concerns about salary trends in its home country.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
By FlightGlobal: Italian investigators have determined that a LATAM Boeing 777-300ER crew introduced a 100t weight error while calculating take-off performance, resulting in a tail-strike at Milan Malpensa.
Leeham News
• Bjorn Fehrm, Leehamcoeu
eVTOL Insights
• Jason Pritchard
Reuters
• Julie Zhu, Jun Yong, Jun Yuan Yong
