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Asiana shareholders approved the merger with 99.3% support on August 12, clearing the way for Korean Air to absorb its rival's 69-jet fleet and become the world's 10th-largest airline by December 17.
JetBlue opens BlueHouse Boston at Logan on August 27, its biggest lounge yet at 12,000 square feet, with a Jackson Cannon cocktail menu and a Green Monster replica wall. But access is narrower than the space suggests — here's who actually gets in.
Istanbul Airport logged 8.15 million passengers in July 2026 against Heathrow's 7.86 million, ending London's hold on the title since 2023. The swing wasn't really about Istanbul surging — it was about Heathrow's Middle East traffic collapsing.
Emirates cancelled seven daily flights to Bahrain and Kuwait as US-Iran tensions flared in early August, with Etihad and Qatar Airways following — and even after Qatar and Etihad resumed service on August 8, Emirates held Kuwait flights suspended into mid-month.
Boeing is selling Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid to Archer Aviation in exchange for nearly 20% of the air-taxi startup, folding a decade of autonomous-flight R&D into one balance sheet before the deal closes late this year.
Nearly 1,800 ground handlers walked out at Barcelona-El Prat and Palma de Mallorca on August 4 and haven't stopped — an indefinite strike that Spain's Transport Ministry says could disrupt roughly 2 million passengers through September.
Starting August 25, 2026, AAdvantage elites lose complimentary coach-to-business upgrades on nine three-cabin domestic and Hawaii routes, capped instead at premium economy.
An Air India A320 lost 250 feet in seconds over India on August 4, injuring more than a dozen people after an autopilot disconnect and a stall warning — and the captain's psychoactive substance screening has now triggered a confirmatory retest.
WestJet has confirmed the last of its densified Boeing 737 cabins is gone and its former Swoop and Sunwing jets have been rebuilt around a 174-seat layout. The retreat, triggered by a viral video, is the clearest evidence yet that there is a floor under economy legroom.
easyJet will end all flying from Leeds Bradford in early January 2027, closing a presence that began in 2010. Because it was only the airport's fifth-largest operator, the retreat says more about how thoroughly Jet2 and Ryanair have taken the airport than about Yorkshire demand.
DIAL is finalising a 2026–2036 master plan that would lift Indira Gandhi International from about 106 million passengers a year to 140 million, built around a new Pier E at Terminal 3, a long-stalled airside train, and a Terminal 4 that eventually replaces T2.
Air China flew a COMAC C919 from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar on 12 August, the type's first scheduled international passenger service. It got there on a bilateral airworthiness arrangement rather than Western certification — which is both the achievement and the ceiling.