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| Sean Broderick Premium Content  Southwest Airlines has pulled its Boeing 737 MAXs through the end of the year and made several tactical changes—including route cuts and major fleet-plan modifications—to help compensate for the model’s prolonged grounding, the carrier said July 25 when announcing its second-quarter earnings.
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| Sean Broderick Premium Content  Despite the Boeing 737 MAX headaches and operational hiccups that American Airlines management said was triggered by both weather and a higher-than-normal number of out-of-service aircraft beyond the MAXs, the Fort Worth-based carrier posted solid 2019 second-quarter numbers.
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| Victoria Moores  Amsterdam Schiphol warned of ongoing flight disruption on July 25, a day after a fuel-supply fault prevented aircraft from being refueled, triggering over 400 flight cancellations.
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| Jack Wittman  Ultra-LCC Spirit Airlines reported second-quarter net income of $114.5 million, a nearly tenfold increase over an $11.3 million net profit in the year-ago period, driven by strong demand and ancillary revenue growth.
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| Bill Carey Premium Content The FAA will reduce aircraft separations in US oceanic airspace by 2022 based on more frequent aircraft position reporting instead of “space-based” automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) signaling, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has reported.
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| Alan Dron  Wizz Air made a strong start to its financial year, with a combination of firmer fares and the growing number of new-generation aircraft in its fleet, allowing the Central and Eastern European LCC to turn around its financial figures.
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| Kurt Hofmann Premium Content  German leisure airline TUIfly will keep adjusting its fleet schedule as the global grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX continues, TUIfly CEO Oliver Lackmann told ATW in an exclusive interview.
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| Victoria Moores Europe is bracing for a heatwave, in more ways than one, as tensions threaten to reach a boiling point between airlines, employees and passengers during the busiest period of the year.
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