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Airline Weekly • Gordon Smith, Jay Shabat

Wizz Air Faces Uncertainty as the Low-Cost Growth Model Comes Under Pressure

Wizz Air’s growth strategy is being tested as the conditions that supported its expansion—cheap fuel, rapid capacity growth and relentless network expansion—become less certain. The airline’s experience offers a clear view into the pressures confronting low-cost carriers built around sustained volume growth.

2026-09-27T22:05:05.163511-07:00
Aviation Safety & Regulation   Airport Infrastructure & Air Traffic Management   Airbus A350   Airlines  
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ch-aviation • Dirk Andrei Salcedo

Qantas joins carriers backing Midway ETOPS ahead of ULR ops

By ch-aviation: Support Contact Newsroom Print Page Preparing for print Commercial Aviation brief Illustration of Qantas Airbus A350-1000, © Airbus By Dirk Andrei Salcedo 28Sep2026 LinkedIn X Facebook Copy news link RSS Feed Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith ) has joined carriers including ZIPAIR and WestJet in calls to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to retain Midway Island airport as an Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards (ETOPS) option, stressing that losing it would increase costs and disrupt transpacific operations.

2026-09-27T18:35:11.877454-07:00
Europe   Airports   Airport Infrastructure & Air Traffic Management   Policy & Regulation  
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Bloomberg • Alex Wickham

Burnham Declines to Support Plan for Third Runway at Heathrow

By Bloomberg: UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s suggestion that he could block plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport set up a dispute with influential Labour interest groups just as the governing party’s annual conference got underway.

Also: Economic Times
2026-09-27T03:05:11.972916-07:00
BizAv   Aviation Safety & Regulation   Policy & Regulation  
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FlightGlobal • David Kaminski-Morrow

Single-pilot operations with larger Citation jets banned over safety and compliance concerns

By FlightGlobal: US FAA rescinds long-standing exemption for Part 25 aircraft after reviewing accident rate and oversight weakness. US regulators are to rescind exemptions allowing single pilots to operate transport-category Cessna Citation business jets, after analysing accident rates and poor compliance with rules.

2026-09-27T01:50:03.906036-07:00
Orders   Airline Industry & Market Trends   Embraer  
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Air Data News • Ricardo Meier

Embraer E2 reportedly leads Airbus A220 in Japan Airlines competition

By Air Data News: Japanese carrier could decide on an order for around 20 regional jets as it plans the future replacement of its E170 and E190 Embraer's E2 has emerged as the leading candidate in Japan Airlines' evaluation of new regional jets, ahead of the Airbus A220 , according to Bloomberg News .

2026-09-27T00:35:26.524900-07:00