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...Budget carriers Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines, which advertise low base fares but rely more on ancillary revenue than legacy carriers, opposed the rule as well....
...But the bosses of Lufthansa and Air France-KLM said their airlines have slashed their direct flights to many major Asian economies because of competition from Gulf airlines, which often offer cheaper fares...
...The mid-air breach of the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines Boeing aircraft has put the spotlight on Spirit AeroSystems, one of the plane maker’s biggest suppliers....
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...Spirit AeroSystems, which supplies the fuselage for Boeing’s 737 Max, said it is assisting federal investigators to discover the cause of the accident on Alaska Airlines flight 1282....
...The European group had been discussing the future of the operations after the Alaska Airlines incident, according to two people familiar with the situation. Airbus declined to comment on Friday....
...The Alaska Airlines blowout happened two days before the three-year probationary period expired....
...the fallout from a damaging fuselage breach on an Alaska Airlines plane 10 days ago....
...work that Spirit does for others....
...Spirit is seeking to combine with JetBlue, despite the objections of regulators. Alaska Airlines has just announced a deal to acquire the smaller Hawaiian Airlines....
...As the Southwest Airlines CEO has put it, Boeing needs to “get the issues understood and get the issues fixed”....
...Spirit’s share price offers little comfort. It is sitting at around $16, or less than half of JetBlue’s offer of $33.50....
...It is seeking to reacquire Spirit AeroSystems, the maker of its fuselages, in order to better control jet assembly. This gummed-up jet value chain is having downstream consequences....
...Large orders earlier in 2023 from Turkish Airlines in December and Asian carriers Air India and IndiGo helped Airbus beat its previous annual order record, set in 2014....
...Boeing also has opened its factories to inspections by airline customers....
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