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Air Canada, via its official website, announced (Oct-2026) a non-refundable booking fee of CAD30 (USD21.04) per passenger will be applied to new bookings made via an Air Canada agent through its contact centre, effective 15-Oct-2026. The fee will continue to apply for the carrier's Aeroplan flight reward bookings made through its contact centre.

Emerald Airlines CEO Keith Butler commented (09-Oct-2026) on the operation complexities of "essentially running two separate AOCs under one roof", as part of its 10 year franchise agreement with Aer Lingus. The carrier launched operations in Feb-2022, operating services from Dublin to the EU under one AOC and operating UK domestic services from Belfast under another. Mr Butler stated: "In aircraft on ground situations, we've got to hire in an aircraft from ourselves if we want to have operational robustness, and that's a burdensome process. We can't interchange our crew between bases in any way". He added: "It has affected the number of flights we've been able to operate. Ideally, there would be a resolution to this for all UK operators, in terms of mutual recognition between European and UK licences for both engineers and pilots, or some sort of fast qualification recognition". He concluded: "It's been a real challenge building up to 20 aircraft over a three to four-year period. We've done that and achieved profitability within year two of operation". [more - Aviation Week]

Norse Atlantic Airways and Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) signed (09-Oct-2026) an ACMI agreement for two Boeing 787-9s. Commencing Nov-2026, the aircraft will commence deployment on PIA services connecting Pakistan and the UK. PIA CEO Amir Hayat stated: "UK is an important market for PIA, and this agreement will allow us to expand the much-needed capacity and provide greater choice and connectivity for passengers travelling on these routes". [more - original PR]

Ryanair announced (08-Oct-2026) plans to suspend all services at Bremen Airport Hans Koschnick, effective Apr-2027. The decision follows "excessive access costs" including air traffic control fees, security charges and airport fees, as well as the German Government's "exorbitant aviation tax". The LCC reported Bremen will lose 500,000 seats, with the capacity to be "reallocated to more competitive airports and regions across Europe". [more - original PR - German]

ST Engineering opened (09-Oct-2026) its new Commercial Aerospace airframe MRO facility at Changi Creek, located within Singapore Changi Airport. The 84,000sqm facility is ST Engineering's fourth airframe MRO site in Singapore and features four widebody aircraft bays. When fully operational, this will add 40% additional capacity to ST Engineering's widebody airframe MRO network in Singapore, translating to around 100 additional widebody aircraft serviced in Singapore p/a. The facility is expected to employ over 500 people, with ST Engineering to provide training and upskilling programmes in digital technologies and AI-enabled work processes. [more - original PR] [more - Aviation Week]

Air Niugini welcomed (09-Oct-2026) the first two A220 pilots from airBaltic, as part of a 12 month arrangement for 30 pilots to join Air Niugini - supporting A220 operations and contributing to the training and development of its flight crew. The initiative forms part of Air Niugini's broader workforce development programme as the airline continues to train and qualify its own pilots for its growing A220 fleet. The remaining pilots are expected to join Air Niugini "progressively over the next two months". [more - original PR]