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Hawaiian Airlines has revised its financial outlook for the third quarter due largely to a better-than-expected revenue performance.

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LCC Volotea has been awarded a five-year contract by Airbus to operate twice-daily return flights between the airframer’s main production sites in Toulouse and Hamburg.

Colombia’s Avianca Holdings has reached an agreement with United Airlines Holdings and Kingsland Holdings S.A. that would see the struggling Latin American carrier receive financing of up to $250 million while it executes a debt-reprofiling plan.

The recent ICAO Assembly in Montreal revealed deep divisions between airlines and environmental groups over the path to reducing carbon emissions.

A project to convert the nine-passenger Britten-Norman Islander to hybrid-electric propulsion for short-haul flights has kicked off in the UK.

Dubai-based LCC flydubai has completed the first installation of Split Scimitar Winglets on its fleet of Boeing 737-800s, becoming the first airline in the Middle East to invest in this fuel-saving technology developed by Aviation Partners Boeing.

Central and Eastern European LCC Wizz Air plans to expand its Romanian operations and will base one additional Airbus A320 in Iasi, bringing its fleet there to three.

Peruvian Airlines has suspended operations “until further notice,” after its bank accounts were frozen by customs authorities over tax irregularities, the company announced.

Air France KLM Group CEO Ben Smith says Air France has reached labor stability, delivering a major improvement to the company.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) announced Oct. 7 that its MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft next year will fly above San Diego to survey infrastructure, during flight tests the company is organizing with NASA.

Philippine Airlines (PAL) has announced it has developed a new business plan to help restore financial health and has reported more senior leadership changes.

Avic is planning to develop a series of four successively larger pilotless cargo aircraft, an official of the state company said at a conference.

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A French commercial court ruled Oct. 4 that insolvent XL Airways should be liquidated.

The U.S. TSA is not consistently involving airlines when it reviews security directives at foreign airports, and its process for checking them is not transparent, says a report from the U.S. GAO.

Efforts to return some 150,000 customers of failed leisure operator Thomas Cook Airlines are scheduled to conclude this weekend.

Kittyhawk has revealed it is developing a third electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle under Project Heaviside.

Spain-based LCC Volotea, which specializes in linking secondary and tertiary European cities, is to open a new base at Naples in 2020.

Boeing has moved into forward-flight testing of its unmanned Cargo Air Vehicle (CAV) and completed more than 90 flights since beginning outdoor testing in early May.

The U.S. Transportation Department Inspector General’s Office (IG) will audit the FAA’s long-running NextGen air traffic control (ATC) modernization effort to determine if it is delivering on expectations.

Insolvent Slovenian carrier Adria Airways has left Star Alliance, becoming the second member airline in a month to leave the alliance because of bankruptcy.

New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has announced subsidies will be granted to general aviation (GA) operators to equip their aircraft with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) ahead of the country’s deadline for installation.