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Business news and events affecting the global airline industry

June 26, 2017

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US Supreme Court to hear travel ban case; allows partial ban for now

The US Supreme Court said later this year it will hear the case against US President Donald Trump’s revised executive order temporarily banning nationals from six countries from traveling to the US, but also has allowed the ban to be partially implemented in the interim.

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Delta, Korean Air finalize JV agreement

Delta Air Lines and Korean Air have finalized their agreement to from an antitrust-immunized transpacific joint venture (JV) in which the SkyTeam carriers will share costs and revenue on flights between the US and South Korea.

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Former Delta CEO Anderson becomes Amtrak CEO

Former Delta Air Lines chairman and CEO Richard Anderson has been named president and CEO of the US passenger rail line Amtrak.

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Second batch of Aireon ADS-B payloads launched into orbit

Ten Iridium Communications satellites successfully launched June 25 via a SpaceX rocket, marking the second batch of Iridium NEXT satellites carrying Aireon’s Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) payloads to go into orbit.

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FedEx posts $3 billion fiscal 2017 net profit

FedEx Corp. posted $3 billion in consolidated net profit for fiscal 2017, up 64.7% from the company’s $1.8 billion net profit in fiscal 2016.

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The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the world’s largest aerospace technical society. With nearly 30,000 individual members from 85 countries, and 95 corporate members, AIAA brings together industry, academia, and government to advance engineering and science in aviation, space, and defense. Look up. AIAA is there. http://www.aiaa.org/you/

Taiwanâs China Airlines ends A340-300 operations

Taipei-based China Airlines has ended Airbus A340-300 operations after 16 years of flying the aircraft type.

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Ryanair expands connecting flight strategy to Milan Bergamo

Irish low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair will launch connecting flights through Milan Bergamo July 3, another move away from point-to-point services for the LCC following the successful launch of connecting flights at Rome Fiumicino last month.

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