Aviation Source
• Len Varley
Birmingham Airport is offering a major financial support package to airlines to restore direct services to New York, aiming to revive transatlantic connectivity and stimulate inbound tourism and business travel. The incentives are designed to lower carrier launch risk and make a Birmingham–New York route commercially viable.
ch-aviation
By ch-aviation: Several daily Operator News updates covering all Operator Route Network changes, strategic fleet developments and aircraft orders, start-ups and bankruptcies, mergers and acquisitions and partnerships and alliances.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: Israeli fighter jets intercepted a Wizz Air flight from London following a terror alert caused by a passenger's prank Wi-Fi network.
ch-aviation
By ch-aviation: Several daily Operator News updates covering all Operator Route Network changes, strategic fleet developments and aircraft orders, start-ups and bankruptcies, mergers and acquisitions and partnerships and alliances.
Breitflyte
• Joe Breitfeller
By Breitflyte: Allegiant Travel Company has reported a fourth quarter 2025 net profit of $31.9 million or $1.73 per diluted share on a year-over year increase in revenue of 4.5 percent to $627.7 million.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: United Airlines is urging flight attendants to accept a new scheduling system in exchange for immediate pay increases amid stalled contract talks.
AeroTime
• Gabriele Petrauskaite
By AeroTime: Saudi low-cost carrier flynas will establish a new airline in Syria, marking a step toward the gradual rebuilding of the country’s civil aviation sector.
Airways Magazine
Bloomberg Law
• Marisa Coulton
By Bloomberg Law: The Allied Pilots Association, which represents more than 16,000 American Airlines pilots, sent a letter to the American Airlines board urging “decisive action” to address what it called persistent operational, financial, and leadership failures.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
