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Skift • Dan Marcec

Airline loyalty programs face a trade-off between easier rewards and seat economics

Airline loyalty programs must make rewards simpler for members to use without eroding the commercial value of seats redeemed through those programs. The challenge is balancing a stronger customer relationship with the economics of inventory offered as rewards.

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2026-11-12T19:15:40.730679-08:00

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ch-aviation • Paul Ash

Saudi Arabia's flynas retires last A320ceo aircraft

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2026-11-12T20:04:53.321801-08:00

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ch-aviation • Dirk Andrei Salcedo

Kyrgyz carriers urged to expand fleets for EU flights

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2026-11-12T18:55:21.339423-08:00

Airline Industry & Market Trends Airlines Boeing

Skift • Dan Marcec

Boeing on Market Forces Shaping Fleets and Routes Through 2045

By Skift: Airlines, manufacturers, and airports have to make long-term investment decisions around sharply different regional demand patterns.

Also: Aviation Business News and mrobusinesstoday.com

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2026-11-12T18:34:38.761443-08:00

Airline Industry & Market Trends Aircraft Manufacturing (OEMs) Airlines Embraer

Skift • Dan Marcec

How Embraer and Porter Airlines Consider Matching the Jet to the Market

By Skift: Airlines choosing new aircraft must weigh per-seat operating costs against deploying more capacity than a market can support.

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2026-11-12T17:55:41.681473-08:00

Accident Aviation Safety & Regulation

ch-aviation • Dirk Andrei Salcedo

Japan's First Flying told to improve safety practices

By ch-aviation: Daiichi Aviation, which operates as First Flying (Okinawa Naha), has received a safety improvement recommendation from Japan's Osaka Regional Civil Aviation Bureau after its DHC-6-400 JA201D (msn 915) was operated with a known weather radar defect on July 12-13, 2026.

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2026-11-12T18:05:21.977123-08:00

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ch-aviation • Dirk Andrei Salcedo

Air Vanuatu faces push to end state bailouts

By ch-aviation: The Vanuatu government wants Air Vanuatu (NF, Port Vila) to stop relying on state financial assistance as it restructures the carrier, deputy prime minister and finance minister Johnny Koanapo told parliament on November 9, 2026, according to the Vanuatu Daily Post newspaper.

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2026-11-12T17:34:57.497264-08:00

Workforce & Skills Development Airlines Delta Air Lines

Skift • Bailey Schulz

Flight Attendants Union Chief Targets Regional Pay, Delta, and Worker Data

By Skift: Flight attendants and pilots saw massive pay jumps in recent negotiations. Association of Flight Attendants International President Sara Nelson doesn’t.

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2026-11-12T16:15:27.668578-08:00

Airline loyalty programs face a trade-off between easier rewards and seat economics

Saudi Arabia's flynas retires last A320ceo aircraft

Kyrgyz carriers urged to expand fleets for EU flights

Boeing on Market Forces Shaping Fleets and Routes Through 2045

How Embraer and Porter Airlines Consider Matching the Jet to the Market

Japan's First Flying told to improve safety practices

Air Vanuatu faces push to end state bailouts

Flight Attendants Union Chief Targets Regional Pay, Delta, and Worker Data

Saudi Arabia's flynas retires last A320ceo aircraft

Loyalty Unscripted: Relationship or Commodity?

Kyrgyz carriers urged to expand fleets for EU flights

Boeing on Market Forces Shaping Fleets and Routes Through 2045

How Embraer and Porter Airlines Consider Matching the Jet to the Market

Japan's First Flying told to improve safety practices

Publication of air crash probes falls short, safety advocates say

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