American Airlines has announced that it has firmed options for an additional 30 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. Deliveries of these 30 additional planes will happen in 2023 and 2024. When delivered complete, the Dallas/Fort Worth-based carrier will have a fleet of 130 MAX aircraft.

On January 11th, American Airlines and Aer Lingus launched a new codeshare agreement that will cover flights between Europe and the United States.

Eight months after JetBlue mentioned that they would serve Canada, the New York-based airline has now put flights on sale to Vancouver (YVR). Vancouver is the airline's first destination in Canada and will have flights from both Boston (BOS) and New York (JFK).

Qantas is returning seasonal service to Rome from June 2022 through October. The three times a week service will see Qantas return to Italy after an absence of 18 years. In addition, this marks the Australian airline’s return to continental Europe.

Finnair has announced that it will operate three flights a week to Seattle in 2022 This route could also pave the way for a codeshare agreement between Finnair and fellow Oneworld partner airline, Alaska Airlines.

Allegiant and VivaAerobus have announced that the two carriers plan to establish a new alliance in North America. The two carriers made a joint application to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) seeking approval for a commercial airline alliance that would expand low-cost travel between the United States and Mexico.

Singapore Airlines recently operated its first Boeing 737 MAX flight, on a return flight from Singapore Changi Airport (SIN) to Phuket International Airport (HKT). The airline will continue to operate the type on the route as the airline eases the type back into service.

This week, Spirit Airlines cut 9% of its flights scheduled for January. The reason for this is staffing problems. Because of this cut, the Fort Lauderdale-based airline will have a more conservative outlook in the near term. This will probably last until the end of the first half of 2022, as it gets back on track.

British Airways has announced that it has added three new Airbus A380 routes to its summer 2022 flight schedule.

Emirates has announced that it plans to launch a daily service to Tel Aviv, Israel in December. This new route is a major step for the airline, as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) did not recognize Israel until August 2020

Alaska Airlines is adding Cleveland to its route map beginning in the summer of 2022. The move comes as the airline continues to further its goal of bringing more feed to its Oneworld partners and more nonstop access to the West Coast.

This week saw the latest start-up airline in the United States, take to the skies. Based in Nevada, aha! is a leisure brand of the regional carrier, ExpressJet.

U.S. regional carrier, SkyWest Airlines was forced to cancel around 700 flights on Thursday, October 21st following an IT problem at the carrier. According to the airline, the disruption was caused by an internal computer issue, which resulted in flight operations being halted for a period of five hours.

American Airlines and JetBlue are proceeding with their Northeast Alliance (NEA) partnership. The two airlines currently still face a lawsuit from the Department of Justice (DOJ) but have decided to move forward with implementing these enhanced frequent flyer benefits.

Israel's flag carrier El Al is reportedly in the process of acquiring fellow Israeli carrier Arkia. This consolidation of the country's aviation industry would leave just Israir as the only other operator.

United Airlines flight operations are back up and running following a system outage that hit the airline early on Friday morning. For just under an hour, the Chicago-based airline coordinated a ground stop with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the airline worked on fixing the issues.

On September 13, officials at Jet Airways made a significant announcement stating that airline, once fully revived, will begin domestic operations in the first quarter of 2022. This announcement comes after a series of steps taken by the airline's new owners, the Kalrock-Jalan consortium, to restart the airline.

On Sunday morning, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced that it would activate Stage I of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF). Using 18 civil aircraft to help with the evacuation from Afghanistan, the DOD will use the extra air capacity from civil jets to help relieve pressure from bases that are housing Afghan evacuees.

Amidst chaotic scenes at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport (KBL), over 800 people have been evacuated from the war-torn city on one United States Air Force (USAF) C-17A flight to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. It is likely the most people ever carrier on a C-17.

American Airlines CEO Doug Parker said the airline is not planning to mandate vaccination for its employees. The decision comes days after other US carriers, United and Frontier, announced plans to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for employees in the next two months.