AirInsight
• Ernest Arvai
COMAC has completed the first flight of the C919-600, a shortened, high-altitude derivative of its C919 narrowbody. The milestone advances a variant intended to address the performance and capacity requirements of operations from challenging, high-elevation airports.
ch-aviation
• Daniel Martinez Garbuno
By ch-aviation: Discover more news on Flybondi at ch-aviation, the leading aviation news and data provider.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
By FlightGlobal: Indian carrier suspends London route while switching Amsterdam service to A321XLRs. Indian carrier IndiGo will axe its London Heathrow service until its first Airbus A350-900s arrive, following the decision to terminate its Boeing 787 damp-lease with Norse Atlantic.
ch-aviation
• Hilka Birns
By ch-aviation: Washington is pushing to secure strong United States participation in the construction of Ethiopia's new USD12.5 billion Bishoftu International Airport, linking it to more Boeing aircraft for Ethiopian Airlines.
Bloomberg
• Siddharth Philip
By Bloomberg: IndiGo will halt widebody operations to London and Amsterdam in October, with India’s largest airline citing geopolitical tensions as the impetus for its decision.
FlightGlobal
• Jon Hemmerdinger
By FlightGlobal: The new agreements would replace current deals set to expire in October. Leaders at a key Boeing labour union have endorsed two company-proposed, four-year employment contracts and are expressing optimism about the state of negotiations.
AINonline
• Matt Thurber
By AINonline: FAA action would require more inspections for affected turbines.
Cranky Flier
• Andrew Bashuk
By Cranky Flier: Review JetBlue Reports Decent Earnings JetBlue stock (side note: people at JetBlue can’t like the fact they got beat to the ‘BLUE’ ticker symbol) soared Tuesday as it released its Q2 earnings which exceeded Wall Street estimates and saw an 11% jump in unit revenue for the airline on airfare increases of 9%.
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FlightGlobal
• Hans Loewenheath
Reuters
• Joanna Plucinska, Shashwat Awasthi
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
