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TSA has switched on the country's first touchless biometric e-gates at Newark's Terminal C, letting enrolled United flyers clear identity checks with a glance — no ID, no boarding pass, under three seconds.
Goa-based FLY91 has ordered 40 ATR 72-600 turboprops in a roughly $1 billion deal — ATR's largest firm order in almost a decade — to grow from six aircraft to more than 60 within five years.
Washington Dulles opens Concourse E on September 30, 2026 — its first new concourse in decades, a 14-gate, $700 million United hub built to finally end the airport's iconic diesel mobile lounges.
From September 1, Air India Express added six domestic cities and became the first carrier to fly Northeast India nonstop to the Gulf, taking its network to 64 destinations — 48 in India, 16 abroad.
The FAA's new airworthiness directive for Airbus A350-1041 freighters and passenger jets targets fasteners installed without a chamfer under the head — a production-tooling slip on the structure that carries both engine pylons.
Paraguay President Santiago Pena met LATAM Airlines CEO Roberto Alvo. They marked 30 years of LATAM Paraguay and announced a new direct Asuncion-Montevideo route plus more flights to Lima and Sao Paulo. This boosts tourism and investment.
Southwest Airlines, the carrier built on open seating and no assigned classes, is opening its first airport lounges in Austin, Baltimore, Honolulu and Nashville — tied to a new Chase-issued credit card modeled on Chase Sapphire lounges.
Ryanair is cutting its winter traffic target by 2 million passengers to dodge unhedged jet fuel at $140 a barrel — and warning that less-hedged rivals may not survive the season.
Ten months after a JetBlue A320 pitched itself downward at 36,000 feet, EASA has issued a follow-up directive, AD 2026-0134, refining how roughly 6,000 aircraft must be protected against the same failure.
Charlotte Douglas will spend more than $1 billion adding 12 to 16 gates over the next seven years — a second wave of construction announced before its $4 billion Destination CLT overhaul and new fourth runway are even finished.
Ahmedabad joined Varanasi and Amritsar as the third city under India's Hub-and-Spoke aviation strategy on September 1, letting international travelers clear immigration once, before boarding, instead of again in Delhi.
Starting September 8, Air France-KLM's Flying Blue program is unbundling every reward flight into Light, Standard and Flex fares — and keeping the old benefits now costs up to 25% more miles.