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Ben Goldstein

JetBlue Airways will halt its daily flights to Mexico City and redeploy the capacity to focus on more profitable operations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
 
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Sean Broderick | Michael Bruno

Boeing remains confident the Boeing 737 MAX will be cleared to fly in at least some parts of the world by year-end, even as it acknowledges that regulatory reviews of required changes are taking longer than its return to service timeline assumes.
 
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Adrian Schofield

Hawaiian Airlines reported a net profit of $80.1 million for the third quarter, down 14% from $93.5 million for the same period last year, despite the extra competitive capacity that has come into some of its core markets and put pressure on yields.
 
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Adrian Schofield

Air New Zealand plans to launch nonstop flights to New York and end its long-running Los Angeles-London service in October 2020.
 
Ben Goldstein

FAA is on target to transition to an international format and a more streamlined system for distributing notices to airmen (NOTAMs) by summer 2020, according to a senior agency official.
 
Kurt Hofmann

Air Astana’s LCC FlyArystan will launch its first international route with daily service between Kazakhstan’s capital and Moscow in December.
 
Ben Goldstein

Numerous delays in the rollout of FAA’s remote identification rulemaking for unmanned aerial vehicles have caused the agency to fall behind EASA in efforts to implement a comprehensive UAV traffic management (UTM) system, an industry expert said.
 
Kurt Hofmann

CSA Czech Airlines has ordered four Airbus A220-300s and upgraded a previous order for three A320neos to A321XLRs.
 
Chen Chuanren

Bhutanese flag-carrier Drukair has taken delivery of its first ATR 42-600 turboprop, equipped with new avionics tailored to handle the challenging Himalayan environment.
 
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