The Air Current
• Will Guisbond
Jeppesen ForeFlight CEO Brad Surak is laying out an ambitious, high-stakes strategy to build AI that operators can trust and actually use—an approach framed as moving beyond experiments toward decision-grade capabilities that earn user adoption. The plan is positioned as central to ForeFlight’s next product direction.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: A ground antenna at Antalya Airport in Türkiye tore a hole in the side of a Boeing 777 operated by Turkish Airlines on June 11 after the pilots took the wrong turn while taxiing to the gate, ending up on a taxiway that was too narrow for the massive widebody aircraft.
Bloomberg
• Mihir Mishra
By Bloomberg: The final report about why an Air India Ltd. jetliner crashed last year won’t be issued by Friday’s mandatory deadline, with a government agency saying the investigation into the country’s worst commercial airline disaster still isn’t finished.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
By FlightGlobal: Concerns raised about Air Express Algeria after third-country operator application rejected by EASA. Regional operator Air Express Algeria has become the first carrier from the north African state to be blacklisted by the European Commission, after failing to obtain a third-country authorisation.
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AirInsight
• Richard Schuurman
By AirInsight: Airbus says the A321XLR is a 'compelling' aircraft for unserved routes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Some airlines already have plans to introduce the type into Africa.
AINonline
• Charles Alcock
By AINonline: Southeast Asian state validated the aircraft’s Chinese type certificate.
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• Dominik Sipinski
By ch-aviation: The Aviation Ground Handlers Association of Nigeria (AGHAN) has suspended all services to MaxAir (Nigeria) (VM, Katsina), except its Hajj operations, over an estimated NGN1 billion naira (USD735,000) debt, the BusinessDay newspaper has reported.
FlightGlobal
• Kerry Reals
By FlightGlobal: The carrier took delivery of its first A321XLR in late April. Air Canada has operated its first commercial flight with its long-awaited new Airbus A321XLR, flying domestically from Montreal to Toronto ahead of the carrier’s first transatlantic service with the type from Montreal to Toulouse on 15 June.
Bloomberg
• Mihir Mishra, Sanjai P R, Siddharth Philip
