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After a week offline, the low-cost carrier's platform came back up this Saturday and is already selling a reduced set of domestic routes, with the first flight scheduled for September 10. The reactivation comes amid the corporate dispute between COC Global and Cartesian Capital Group, ARCA asset freezes and more than two weeks without operations.

Qantas unveiled new Business suites with lie-flat beds and sliding privacy doors for its A321XLRs from 2028, plus an evolved version for its 787-9 Dreamliners, as part of the largest fleet renewal in its history.

AD 2026-17-02, effective October 1, covers 77 aircraft over joint failures detected by Boeing in 2019 in the lower side of body splice plates. Six Latin American airframes are affected: three at LATAM, one at Aeroméxico and two at Avianca. The rest of the region's 787 fleets fall outside.

The agency is also investigating a broader pattern of “early shoves” — unrecorded early departures that are treated as time-clock fraud in the United States.

A One Air Boeing 747-433(BDSF) freighter left a door open in the rain and water seeped into the avionics bays, disabling two electrical buses. With the Pitot heaters inoperative, ice produced unreliable speed readings and an emergency descent into Schiphol.

AD 2026-18-51 and AD 2026-18-52 take effect upon receipt. They require operators to comply with EASA's recommendations so that no A330ceo or 777 Classic operates with two affected parts of the oil system — a condition that poses a risk of dual in-flight shutdown. The FAA is not authorizing special flight permits.

Jet Zero Australia closed an AUD 30 million Series C round with the backing of Airbus and Qantas, the entry of South Korea's POSCO International as a new investor, and final approval of the Townsville site for Project Ulysses.

Latvia's flag carrier has agreed interim financing of up to €257 million, at a 25% rate and maturing on 26 February 2027, to support its cash position as it trims its fleet and moves forward with recapitalisation. Bondholders vote on 11 September.

The cockpit voice recorder confirms a pilot repeatedly warned that the crew was overshooting speed, that flaps 30 were requested just 40 feet (12 meters) above the ground, and that the go-around call came after an unstable touchdown.

During the state visit of the president of the United Arab Emirates, the German government granted Emirates a fifth airport in the country. The carrier will be able to operate up to seven weekly flights between Dubai and BER, without fifth-freedom rights, after years of opposition from Lufthansa.