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Southwest Airlines is a major US low-cost carrier known for operating an all-Boeing 737 fleet and a point-to-point route network.
Delta cut its full-year profit outlook 24% at the midpoint, to $5.10-$5.60 a share, in a quarter when jet fuel cost it $1.6 billion more. CEO Ed Bastian says fares can stay high once oil eases, though Fortune notes they have not fully covered the fuel bill.
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Delta Air Lines cut its full-year earnings forecast to $5.10-$5.60 a share from $6.50-$7.50 after its third-quarter fuel bill rose 62% to $4.1 billion. With fares already up about a quarter and seat growth speeding up, rivals have less room to pass on the next fuel increase.
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FAA safety experts ruled a 737 Max software glitch poses no safety concern, clearing a late obstacle to Boeing's Max 10 and its nearly 1,500 orders. Officials told Reuters approval could come as soon as later this month, with crews following an interim procedure until Boeing finishes a software fix.
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Academic researchers hijacked the link between two Boeing 737 flight computers with a coin-sized board. The constraint was never budget or code. It was who can reach the nose bay.
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United, Southwest and American told Morgan Stanley's Laguna Conference that high fuel means fewer flights and higher fares this winter. Their own CFOs say fuel reaches fares with a lag, so the increase lands on first-quarter bookings.
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The airlines spent weeks asking the FAA to narrow SMART, and the version debuting this month hands controllers route advice at the three Washington-area airports under a 90-day test. The agency's own officials describe it as both record speed and a slow roll.
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AWS has made the Quick desktop assistant generally available on macOS and Windows and pitched it to IT as the sanctioned answer to shadow AI. It runs in Frankfurt, London and Ireland, and not in the Brandenburg sovereign cloud.
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The argument AWS makes to IT for its newly general desktop assistant is that unapproved tools already move data out of controlled environments, and its answer is audit trails in CloudWatch and CloudTrail plus four named certifications.
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AWS now ships a first-party catalog for agents, tools, skills and MCP servers, moving the hard part off building them and onto whoever keeps the records current and clears the approval queue, a staffing question as much as a platform one.
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American will put 4K screens at every seat on new narrowbodies from 2028 and add premium seats fleetwide. The driver is a profit gap CNBC puts at about $3bn to United and nearly $5bn to Delta.
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