Runway Girl
• Becca Alkema
A new Boeing 787 scheduled for delivery to Lufthansa will first be used as Boeing’s latest ecoDemonstrator, running flight tests aimed at improving fuel efficiency and reducing noise emissions. The aircraft will transition from demonstration activities to its planned role with Lufthansa following the program.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: Managers at American Airlines’ biggest hub at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) blocked 1,128 days’ worth of work for flight attendants in a single month, as crew members were grounded while the airline carried out investigations into anonymous complaints, first-time lateness, and stolen crew devices.
AINonline
• Kerry Lynch
By AINonline: Aircraft to be delivered in 2027.
Flying Magazine
• Meg Godlewski
By Flying Magazine: Psychologist and pilot breaks down hidden risks of summer operations in the heat and how to sharpen aeronautical decision making.
Wall Street Journal
• Benjamin Katz, Julia Amann
By Wall Street Journal: Phones, power banks and vapes are spontaneously catching fire on planes, injuring passengers and disrupting flights.
AeroTime
• Stephen Pope
By AeroTime: Kuwait closed its airspace after renewed Iranian missile and drone attacks, forcing Kuwait Airways to cancel most flights.
AINonline
• Charles Alcock
By AINonline: McKinsey report says carriers may be fine with delivery delays.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will once again let Boeing mark its own homework after it told the Chicago-headquartered aircraft manufacturer that it is free to issue its own airworthiness certificates for all newly manufactured 737MAX jets and 787 Dreamliners.
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Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
