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SP-EXK Boeing 737-8 c/n 64508 Enter Air Delivered Budapest-Warsaw 27/07/24 ex VP-CTZ.
2-AECB Airbus A321-251N c/n 9571 Etihad Airways Delivered to Abu Dhabi 02/08/24.
2-TWGN Airbus A320-271N c/n 7858 AviLease Ferried to Istanbul 01/08/24 ex VT-WGN.

@ByERussell I’m a fan of the word “moat” for the airline business. It’s a good way to describe @Allegiant’s positioning in the US budget market. The airline faces the same challenges as everyone else but it’s not giving up its moat to return to stable profitability.
@ByERussell European Commission statement on IAG withdrawing bid to acquire Air Europa: “The merger would have negatively affected competition on a large number of domestic, short-haul and long-routes within, to and from Spain on which the two airlines compete closely.”
@FATIIIAviation 2024.06.05, COMAC ARJ21 & C919 completed their 1st SAF demo flight. Both aircraft were filled with 40% SAF developed by Sinopec using residual cooking oil. The demo flights lasted over an hour and COMAC noted both aircraft performed nicely.
@rschuur_aero Roll out of @IndiGo6E Stretch will take until late 2025. The product will eventually be available on 12 “metro-to-metro”-routes in India. The airline also launched its BluChip loyalty program that will go live in September.