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Turkish Airlines has converted a set of earlier 2026 suspensions into permanent network cuts. AeroRoutes reported on September 11 that, as of that dayβs schedule read, eleven destinations previously framed as temporar...
Eurowings used its September 11, 2026 Newscloud ticker to lock three winter 2026/27 route adds that thicken the Lufthansa Group...
Romaniaβs national carrier has crossed a fleet milestone that Boeing, TAROM and lessor CDB Aviation marked in Bucharest on Sept...
Air France is using its September Caribbean winter briefing to add a Central American spoke and upgrade a long-haul island gate...
Emirates is stepping back from a second daily DubaiβCopenhagen bank this winter. AeroRoutes reported on September 11 that the p...
Air Canada has put its Airbus A321XLR onto MontrealβLyon for the end of the summer season. Air Journal reported on September 10...
Discover Airlines is carving a winter gap into its FrankfurtβPhiladelphia schedule. AeroRoutes reported on September 11 that th...
Air France is thickening its CaribbeanβFlorida bridge this winter. AeroRoutes reported on September 11 that the SkyTeam carrier will lift Pointe-Γ -PitreβMiami from three to four weekly flights from...
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Emirates will deploy a retrofitted Airbus A380 on daily DubaiβParis Charles de Gaulle flights EK071 and EK072 from October 25, ...
American Airlines is stacking eight long-haul launches and relaunches for 2027 across Charlotte, Chicago OβHare, New York JFK a...
Israir is preparing to enter the United States with widebody metal. AeroRoutes reported on September 11 that the Israeli carrie...
British Airways is leaning harder into HeathrowβUnited States flying than at any point since before the pandemic. Simple Flying...
Volaris is adding a new U.S. gateway in North Carolina. AirlineGeeks reported on September 11 that the Mexican ultra-low-cost c...
Emirates finally cleared the regulatory path for Berlin after more than two decades of lobbying. Simple Flying reported on Sept...
Air Canada is in the middle of a European expansion wave, with fourteen new transatlantic routes launching across 2026 and 2027...
Alaska Airlines is building a long-haul network from Seattle with a widebody fleet that is still tiny by Big Three standards. A...
JetBlueβs next wave of Airbus A321neos is not coming this decadeβs second half. A September 11 Simple Flying analysis of the ca...
Qatar Airways plans to restore daily service between Doha and MahΓ© in the Seychelles from March 1, 2027, according to an AeroRo...
ITA Airways took delivery of its second Star Alliance-liveried aircraft on September 10, when a newly built Airbus A321neo arri...
Alaska Airlines widened its codeshare with American Airlines on September 10, adding two Puerto Rico city pairs that American a...
Wizz Airβs Turin base is days from opening, and the first wave of new routes is narrower than the seven-destination headline su...
Virgin Atlantic is deliberately flying fewer seats on its next Airbus A330-900neos so it can sell more of the cabin that actual...
KLMβs first Airbus A350 has left the hangar phase and entered airborne testing. In an Amstelveen statement dated September 10, ...
Frontier Airlines opened a new leisure corridor from Idaho on September 10, launching nonstop service between Boise Airport and...
Qatar Airways will stretch its winter 2026β27 map past one hundred seventy destinations, pairing frequency builds on core long-...
Avianca is refreshing the front cabin on its fifteen Boeing 787 Dreamliners with new Insignia business-class suites that add sl...
Lufthansa will put Kuala Lumpur back on the Frankfurt winter map on October 25, ending a ten-year gap with five-weekly Boeing 7...
Transavia is filling more of its summer 2027 map from Amsterdam and Brussels, adding Spanish and Croatian leisure cities while ...
Allegiant Air has stripped forty-one Florida routes out of its forward schedule, underscoring how quickly the ultra-low-cost ca...
Avianca locked a sale-and-leaseback for twelve Airbus A320neos with Singapore-based lessor BOC Aviation on September 10, AeroTi...
Emirates will suspend Airbus A380 service on DubaiβAmsterdam for the entire month of October 2026, Simple Flying reported on Se...
Aer Lingus operated an Airbus A330-300 on the short DublinβBrussels route on September 9, Aviation24 reported, substituting the...
Delta Air Lines has removed eight Atlanta routes from its forward-looking schedule through summer 2027, according to a Cirium-b...
Frontier Airlines on September 10 announced its first-ever South America flying, putting three nonstop routes from Orlando Inte...
Norse Atlantic Airways cut scheduled capacity sharply in August yet filled nearly every seat on its Boeing 787 network, TravelM...
American Airlines began service at Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois in Marion on September 9, local station WCIL reported,...
Saudi Arabiaβs Air Connectivity Program signed a cooperation agreement with Delta Air Lines on September 10 to support planned ...
World2Fly has filed a limited fourth-quarter triangle linking Amsterdam with Bonaire and Curaçao on Airbus A350-900 aircraft, A...
Ryanair on September 10 announced what it called a record Winter 2026 schedule for Sweden, putting 4.6 million passengers a yea...
Omani low-cost carrier SalamAir plans to launch twice-weekly Airbus A320neo flights on a MuscatβBaghdadβCopenhagen routing from...
Delta Air Lines is cutting deeper into its New York and Las Vegas schedules this fall, ending New York JFK flights to Milwaukee...
Iberia is moving its MadridβLondon Gatwick winter operation onto mainline Airbus A320 aircraft from October 25, replacing Iberi...
French all-business airline La Compagnie is preparing to open a fourth Newark gateway, scheduling nonstop flights between DΓΌsse...
Emirates has pushed its planned third daily DubaiβMelbourne Airbus A380 back to no earlier than March 28, 2027, according to No...
ITA Airways will keep the Airbus A330-200 in active long-haul service through Northern winter 2026/27, according to a network o...
Alaska Airlines plans a one-day Boeing 737 MAX 8 appearance on AnchorageβUtqiagvik (Barrow) on November 17, 2026, according to ...
Delta Air Lines will put a Boeing 717 on the DetroitβToronto Pearson market for the peak 2026β27 holiday window, according to s...
Iberia has opened Emerald Lounge Sorolla, a new 800-square-meter premium space in Madrid-Barajas Terminal 4 built exclusively f...
easyJet is about to stitch Manchester and Southampton back together with one of the shortest mainland routes on its map. Simple...
WestJet has cancelled its planned OttawaβLiberia, Costa Rica, service for Northern winter 2026/27, removing a once-weekly Boein...
Contour Airlines is adding a winter leisure bridge from Southeast Missouri to Central Florida, launching seasonal nonstops betw...
Frontier Airlines will shut its New York John F. Kennedy International Airport station on October 5, 2026, ending a little more...
The US Treasuryβs Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned 36 aviation-linked targets on September 8, 2026, including 27 Ira...
Air Dolomiti has rolled out a deeper Lufthansa blue on the first Embraer E195 transferred from Austrian Airlines, replacing the...
Air Serbia will thicken its BelgradeβPrague shuttle this winter, lifting the route from nine to eleven weekly flights from Octo...
Wizz Air is putting Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Jeddah and Amman back on sale for winter 2026/27, restoring 12 EuropeβMiddle East routes ...
Lufthansa Technik has pushed its AeroSHARK βshark skinβ surface film into the final Supplemental Type Certificate campaign for ...
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has opened Gateside by TSA PreCheck, a free program that lets eligible trusted ...
Alaska Airlines is facing a New York lawsuit seeking more than $522,000 after an insurer alleged that 11 original Japanese pain...
Iberiaβs regional franchisee Air Nostrum will put Barcelona El PratβPamplona NoΓ‘in back on the winter timetable from October 25...
Romanian carrier Animawings has filed a short March 2027 season between Bucharest Henri CoandΔ and Strasbourg Entzheim, putting...
Lufthansa is weighing denser Allegris premium cabins on new long-haul jets as its first Airbus A350-1000 approaches Munich deli...
Aeromexico is expanding its European map for northern summer 2027 with two new Boeing 787 nonstops: GuadalajaraβParis Charles d...
Delta Air Lines will end nonstop flights between New York LaGuardia and Tulsa on November 6, 2026, closing a short-lived Connec...
Greek carrier Sky Express has filed a new northern summer 2027 link from Crete to the Netherlands, scheduling IrakleionβAmsterd...
British low-cost carrier easyJet is facing a High Court claim in London seeking at least $72 million over six Airbus jets it st...
Air Cairo is adding Belgium to its European map. Schedules filed for Northern Winter 2026 show the Egyptian carrier launching C...
Lufthansa Cargo is buying capacity on the ground as well as in the sky. The carrier has agreed to acquire Frankfurt freighter h...
High-speed rail is back under Brussels Airport, and Brussels Airlines is turning that stop into a bookable airline product. On ...
A technical failure inside the system that processes flights through UK airspace disrupted departures across Britain on Tuesday...
FedEx Express has put one of its most photogenic freighters back to work. Boeing 777-200F N884FD, nicknamed Rosie, returned to ...
SWISS is working with the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne to preserve one of its last Airbus A340-300s as a permanent outd...
Aeroitalia has opened scheduled service to Libya with weekly Boeing 737-400 flights from Milan Bergamo and Rome Fiumicino to Tr...
British Airways is restoring two long-haul markets from London Gatwick this winter and adding a seasonal Lapland leisure route ...
Breeze Airways has operated its last scheduled Embraer E190 passenger flights and now flies an all-Airbus A220-300 fleet, accor...
Southwest Airlines is stacking ten new nonstops from Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport between spring 2026 and March 2...
QantasLink's Network Aviation unit has inducted its first Embraer E190 in Perth, registering VH-E9A after a multi-stop ferry fr...
Etihad Airways has brought forward its seasonal Abu DhabiβPalma de Mallorca service for summer 2027, with the Airbus A321LR now...
Airbus delivered 57 aircraft in August 2026 and booked 67 gross orders, lifting year-to-date deliveries to 475 airframes as the...
United Airlines is keeping its daily NewarkβDubai nonstop grounded until at least March 27, 2027, even as the carrier restores ...
Delta Air Lines has restarted daily nonstop flights between New York John F. Kennedy International Airport and Tel Aviv Ben Gur...
Ryanair will operate its largest-ever Winter 2026 schedule from KoΕ‘ice, Slovakia, with five routes and 13% more weekly flights ...
Qantas-owned Network Aviation has taken delivery of its first Embraer E190 for Western Australia resource flying, FlightGlobal ...
Etihad Airways will open its summer 2027 Abu DhabiβPalma de Mallorca seasonal service on May 16 instead of June 15, according t...
Charlotte Douglas International Airport is advancing more than $1 billion of ramp and concourse work that would give American A...
United Airlines is flying a 166-seat Boeing 737 MAX 8 between Newark Liberty International Airport and Madeira Airport three ti...
Etihad Airways has brought forward the service entry of its three-class 194-seat Airbus A321LR to January 1, 2027 from the prev...
Wizz Air announced on September 7, 2026 that it is adding roughly 46 weekly flights from Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport by restori...
Lufthansa will limit FrankfurtβNew York JFK to a single daily Airbus A350-900 rotation in winter 2026/27 and will not operate a...
Lufthansa has reversed a late-summer plan to put leisure subsidiary Discover Airlines on MunichβBelgrade this winter and will i...
Frontier Airlines has eliminated ten Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport routes when the SeptemberβDecember 2025 schedule ...
Frontier Airlines will operate ten fewer Phoenix Sky Harbor routes in the SeptemberβDecember 2026 window than it did in the sam...
Lufthansa has reversed a plan to hand MunichβBelgrade to leisure subsidiary Discover Airlines this winter and will instead keep...
Discover Airlines will expand its Italian leisure network in summer 2027 with two new city pairs: FrankfurtβGenoa from March 28...
Wizz Air said on September 7, 2026 that it is adding 46 weekly flights at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport, restoring five European ...
American Airlines plans to lift the share of premium seats on narrowbody departures from roughly 25% today to about 40% in the ...
Etihad Airways will launch year-round flights from Abu Dhabi to Saudi Arabia's Red Sea International Airport on October 4, 2026...
Air France will restart seasonal Cape TownβParis Charles de Gaulle service on September 22, 2026, flying the route through Marc...
La Compagnie announced on September 7, 2026 that it will launch nonstop all-business-class service between New York's Newark Li...
Alaska Airlines will restart SeattleβLong Beach service on September 8, 2026, with two daily year-round flights on Boeing 737 m...
JetBlue listed eight new nonstop routes from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on September 7, 2026, naming Balti...
Air Canada will restore a daytime TorontoβLondon Heathrow Daytripper from May 1, 2027, lifting the city pair to five daily flig...
British Airways will reshape its London Heathrow network between October and December 2026 with five route additions and restor...
Delta Air Lines will give Austin-Bergstrom International Airport its first long-haul nonstop on March 27, 2027, launching daily...
Frontier Airlines will launch nine new nonstop routes between September and December 2026, starting with four-weekly Las Vegasβ...
American Airlines is closing in on a widebody order that could reach as many as 65 aircraft, a decision that would reshape its ...
Airline forums still repeat that an Airbus A220-300 costs about 30% more than an Embraer E195-E2. Simple Flyingβs 7 September 2...
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency issued emergency airworthiness directives 2026-0172-E and 2026-0173-E on 4 September ...
Airbus is still targeting 12 Airbus A350 deliveries a month by 2028, but a fresh round of customer delay warnings has put the r...
Ryanair is cutting winter flying and trimming its fiscal 2027 passenger target from 216 million to 214 million as jet fuel trad...
flydubai plans to shift its daily Dubai to Naples service to Salerno Costa d'Amalfi and Cilento Airport for the whole of Novemb...
British Airways flight BA94 from Montreal to London Heathrow was delayed on 5 September 2026 after an emergency evacuation slid...
KLM's first Airbus A350-900 completed its maiden production test flight from Toulouse-Blagnac on 4 September 2026, flying about...
Air Canada will launch seasonal nonstop flights between Montreal and Dubrovnik three times weekly from 11 May 2027, putting a B...
United Airlines plans to resume twice-daily nonstop flights between Newark Liberty International Airport and Tel Avivβs Ben Gur...
Social video circulating Sunday evening appears to show an Amazon Prime Airβbranded Boeing 767 freighter off the paved surface ...
United Airlines has rolled out a new special livery on an Embraer E175 celebrating the carrierβs mountain destinations for the ...
Air Canada will open two new TorontoβEurope thin long-haul markets on the Airbus A321XLR in summer 2027, adding Oslo and Shanno...
United Airlines will put its new Airbus A321XLR into passenger service on domestic California routes from Washington Dulles bef...
American Airlines is lining up its largest John F. KennedyβEurope schedule in years for summer 2027, adding two new destination...
Ljubljana Airport handled 222,958 passengers in August 2026, its busiest month on record, a 19.7% jump on August 2025 and 5.3% ...
Qantas will add a second weekly BrisbaneβKoror flight from 2 December 2026, lifting Palau service on the Boeing 737-800 accordi...
Emirates will put electrically powered Premium Economy seats with full-height privacy screens on newly delivered Airbus A350 ai...
Air Canada will open TorontoβNice on the Airbus A330-300 and MontrealβBasel on the Airbus A321XLR in summer 2027, two of the he...
Delta Air Lines will end four domestic routes from New York and Las Vegas before the end of 2026, trimming short-haul Delta Con...
Lufthansa is handing more winter 2026/27 Europe flying to group airlines Discover Airlines, Lufthansa City Airlines and Air Dol...
Luxair has postponed its return to Dubai until 6 February 2027 and pushed the launch of Luxembourg-Abu Dhabi from October 2026 ...
Lufthansa will lift Munich-Singapore from five weekly flights to daily service for a limited window in early 2027, according to...
Delta Air Lines has shortened planned Boston-Honolulu service for Northern winter 2026/27 to a two-week holiday window after a ...
United Airlines says its new Airbus A321XLR cannot cover Newark-Italy missions under the carrier's own range rules, even though...
Mammoth Freighters has delivered its first converted Boeing 777-200LRMF freighter to Texas lessor Jetran for operations with DH...
JSX will open nonstop public-charter flights between Scottsdale Airport and Cabo San Lucas Airport on October 8, 2026, giving A...
United Airlines will restore nonstop service between Houston Intercontinental and Tuxtla Gutierrez on October 28, 2026, putting...
Delta Air Lines is lining up five new or restored long-haul city pairs that stretch from Saudi Arabia to the Pacific. Simple Fl...
American Airlines is in the final stages of a widebody campaign that could reshape its long-haul fleet for the 2030s. Chief com...
easyJet carried more than 343,000 passengers on over 2,000 flights on September 1, 2026, recording the busiest single day in th...
Lufthansa will resume flights between Frankfurt and Riyadh on September 10, 2026, three times a week, according to a Lufthansa ...
Southwest Airlines will open nonstop flights between Austin Bergstrom International Airport and Knoxvilleβs McGhee Tyson Airpor...
Allegiant Air will add year-round nonstop flights from Flint Bishop International Airport to Orlando International Airport and ...
Austrian Airlines is counting down to the end of its Boeing 767-300ER era, with spokesperson confirmation that OE-LAZ will leav...
Portugal's government will open a final, weeks-long negotiation round with Deutsche Lufthansa and Air France-KLM over a minorit...
Breeze Airways has taken delivery of an Airbus A220-300 from lessor Jackson Square Aviation, the first of two jets under a mult...
Delta Air Lines is flying seven Airbus A321neos in a temporary layout with 44 Delta First seats after certification trouble sta...
Frontier Airlines will end all flights at New York John F. Kennedy International Airport on October 5, 2026, closing a station ...
airBaltic said on 3 September 2026 that it had reached agreement with some current bondholders and external finance providers f...
Vueling has postponed the commercial entry of its first Boeing 737 MAX aircraft into the first half of 2027 after protracted ce...
American Airlines unveiled its first Boeing 777-300ER retrofitted with Flagship Suites, AeroTime reported on 3 September 2026, ...
Delta Air Lines will resume daily nonstop flights between New York John F. Kennedy International Airport and Tel Aviv Ben Gurio...
The Federal Aviation Administration said on 31 August 2026 that it tentatively intends to let JetBlue Airways buy 22 takeoff an...
Delta Air Lines is preparing to put more Premium Select and Comfort+ seats on its Boeing 767-400ER fleet, according to trade re...
Lufthansa Technik and Emirates said on 2 September 2026 that they have extended base maintenance covering Emiratesβ Airbus A380...
Air France has opened its new lounge in Frankfurt Airportβs Terminal 3, several months after the airline moved operations into ...
Southwest Airlines is pushing San Diego International toward 49 destinations by March 2027 with three more long nonstops: Fort ...
Frontier Airlines will open nine new nonstop markets between 10 September 2026 and early January 2027, starting with four-weekl...
Emirates will put the Airbus A380 back on Dubai International-Beijing Capital for the month of October 2026. AeroRoutes, publis...
Southwest Airlines and LOT Polish Airlines opened an interline partnership on 1 September 2026 that lets travelers buy one tick...
American Airlines is in the "seventh or eighth inning" of a widebody campaign sized at up to 65 aircraft for 2030s delivery, Vi...
British Airways will introduce or resume five nonstop routes from London Heathrow between October and December 2026, according ...
KLM's first Airbus A350-900 took off from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport shortly after 12:30 local time on 4 September 2026 and flew ...
Virgin Atlantic begins seasonal nonstop flights from London Heathrow to Phuket International Airport on 18 October 2026, operat...
Riyadh Air posted photos of its first Airbus A321neo in final assembly at Airbusβs Hamburg plant on 2 September 2026, shifting ...
United Express begins daily nonstop flights between Newark Liberty International Airport and Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport ...
Wizz Air Malta restarts three-weekly flights between Rome Fiumicino and Alexandriaβs Borg El Arab Airport on 7 September 2026, ...
Air Canada will open a seasonal nonstop between Shannon Airport and Toronto Pearson International Airport on 10 June 2027, flyi...
Emirates on 3 September 2026 unveiled what it calls the worldβs first electrically powered Premium Economy seat with a full-hei...
Qatar Airways plans to resume four Saudi Arabia routes in the Northern winter 2026/27 season on Airbus A320 aircraft, according...
Southwest Airlines on 2 September 2026 unveiled plans for its first-ever airport lounge network, with construction already unde...
Ryanair is cutting roughly two million seats from its winter schedule and has lowered its passenger target for the year to 31 M...
United Airlines begins daily nonstop flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Seoul Incheon International Airport o...
Airbus has resumed A330neo deliveries after a roughly three-month disruption tied to a horizontal tail plane quality issue that...
KLM has pushed back the first Airbus A350-900 flights on AmsterdamβToronto Pearson yet again. AeroRoutes reported on 3 Septembe...
Emirates will temporarily put a second daily Airbus A380 on DubaiβSingapore from 1 October through 24 October 2026 by replacing...
United Airlines will open its first-ever nonstop from Boston Logan to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, operating seasonally from 13 Febru...
JetBlue on 1 September 2026 unveiled BlueFirst, the domestic first-class cabin it has been promising for nearly two years, usin...
TAP Air Portugalβs first nonstop to Central Florida is close enough that Simple Flying this week walked through the live bookin...
Aeromexico is putting Guadalajara back on New York JFK for the holidays. AeroRoutes on 3 September 2026 shows daily AM296/297 f...
LOT Polish Airlines opened Saturday WarsawβTurin flights for the 2027 ski season. A 3 September 2026 LOT statement distributed ...
Air Canada on 3 September 2026 called Summer 2027 its largest intercontinental expansion, adding five new destinations and seve...
Alaska Airlines is marking 40 years in San Diego by adding a 50th nonstop from Lindbergh Field. The carrierβs 3 September 2026 ...
LOT Polish Airlines is adding two more Dreamliners the used way. Simple Flying and aero.uk report Virgin Atlantic will transfer...
Vueling is slipping its Boeing 737 MAX debut again. AeroTime reports the Barcelona-based IAG low-cost carrier is pushing entry ...
American Airlines is taking over Essential Air Service at Marion, Illinois. Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois says American...
Alaska Airlines is bringing Palm SpringsβSonoma County back early. Palm Springs International Airport says the seasonal nonstop...
United Airlines is putting its new Airbus A321XLR onto domestic California flying before Europe. AeroRoutes shows reservations ...
Azul is putting Porto AlegreβMontevideo back on the map. AeroRoutes says the Brazilian carrier plans to resume the route from 1...
Embraer has crossed 2,000 E-Jet deliveries. Air Data News and Aviation24.be report the milestone airframe, an Embraer E195-E2, ...
Romaniaβs flag carrier TAROM is leaving the BucharestβBelgrade market. EX-YU Aviation News reports the airline will discontinue...
Contour Airlines is putting Williamsport Regional Airport back on the scheduled map. In a 2 September 2026 PR Newswire release,...
United Airlines is cutting its long-running NewarkβLima nonstop. AeroRoutes shows the carrier filed South America changes that ...
United Airlines is extending HoustonβDurango into the winter for the first time. AirlineGeeks reports twice-weekly Embraer E175...
American Airlines has put its first retrofitted Boeing 777-300ER into commercial service with a denser Flagship Suite cabin and...
Delta Air Lines has shortened its planned BostonβHonolulu winter return to a holiday-only window. AeroRoutesβ 2 September 2026 ...
Alaska Airlines plans to put Los AngelesβSan Jose back on the map for Northern winter 2026/27. AeroRoutesβ 2 September 2026 sch...
Smartwings has filed charter links from northern Iceland into continental Europe for late 2026 and spring 2027. AeroRoutesβ 2 S...
Royal Jordanian intends to open AqabaβMoscow Domodedovo for Northern winter 2026/27. AeroRoutesβ 2 September 2026 schedule note...
SkyUp Airlines is scaling its Moldova plan for Northern summer 2027. AeroRoutesβ 2 September 2026 note says the carrier now lis...
American Airlines used its 29 August 2026 schedule update to lock a broader Northern summer 2027 Europe plan. AeroRoutesβ 31 Au...
Delta Air Lines is putting two brand-new long-haul city pairs on the Northern summer 2027 map. AeroRoutesβ 31 August 2026 note ...
Pegasus Airlines plans to open Libya with a daily Boeing 737-800 link from Istanbul. AeroRoutes published the Northern Winter f...
Etihad Airways is converting its new Gothenburg service to year-round flying after bookings beat the seasonal plan. Aviation24 ...
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