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• Julie Zhu, Sameer Manekar
Qantas reported a 13.8% decline in full-year pre-tax underlying profit, citing surging jet-fuel prices linked to the Middle East conflict. The airline also plans to begin retiring its Airbus A380 fleet in 2028, marking a future shift in its widebody fleet strategy.
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Qantas reported a 13.8% decline in full-year pre-tax underlying profit, citing surging jet-fuel prices linked to the Middle East conflict. The airline also plans to begin retiring its Airbus A380 fleet in 2028, marking a future shift in its widebody fleet strategy.
A Polish institute recorded a sharp rise in deliberate satellite-navigation signal interference around Gdańsk during the first half of August, with significant disruption occurring on almost two-thirds of days. The findings point to sustained degradation of positioning and timing services along Poland’s northern coast.
The Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is now estimated to cost about $51 billion more than in December 2023—a roughly 10% increase. The reported drivers include software modernization, readiness improvements, spare-parts shortages and engine-power upgrades, underscoring the expanding sustainment burden of the U.S. stealth-fighter fleet.
The Justice Department seized domains associated with QScan and QTRouter, platforms it alleges were used in a Chinese state-sponsored hacking campaign. Court documents say the operation reached U.S. government agencies and networks operated by hospitals, telecommunications providers, power companies, financial institutions and defense contractors.
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Delta Air Lines will resume daily nonstop flights between New York-JFK and Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport on Sept. 6, restoring its only current Israel route after suspending service amid the regional conflict. The route will be operated with Airbus A330-900neo aircraft.
A Washington Post account published May 6 offers the most complete public picture yet of what Iran’s missiles did to American bases in the Gulf. The report’s finding that shutter control worked underscores a vulnerability for commercial imagery providers and their customers.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded Elon Musk Ukraine’s Order of Freedom, citing his contributions to protecting life and freedom, as Kyiv seeks broader access to SpaceX’s Starlink terminals for battlefield communications and potentially drone strikes deep inside Russia—an expansion Musk has been reluctant to approve.
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Dubai International Airport reported passenger and aircraft-movement declines of almost 30% in the first half, with traffic falling 30% sequentially in the second quarter as the Iran war deterred Middle East travel. Volumes recovered sharply through June as airlines gradually restored capacity, supporting expectations for a second-half rebound.
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