Azul has indicated that they are still in the race for assets of bankrupt Avianca Brazil with a new offer, while the financially troubled carrier filed an appeal in court against the suspension of its bankruptcy auction last week. Azul has filed a petition for a minimum bid of $145 million on a new isolated productive unit, or UPI, of assets comprising "certain slot pairs" of Avianca Brazil including those for the lucrative shuttle service between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
"The company believes that the sale of this single new UPI will provide Avianca Brazil’s employees, customers, creditors, and other interested parties, a legal and legitimate alternative to maintain its business as a going concern in light of the rapid deterioration of the company’s activities," says Azul.

Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport firefighters reached a burning Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 within the required response time, and extinguished the fire in approximately 16 minutes, according to the airport. The operating company says fire-rescue vehicles reached the scene on the 5th of May about 1 minute ahead of the regulatory standard.
Russian regulations dictate that firefighters must be able to reach the ends of each runway within 3 minutes. After the aircraft landed on runway 24L at 18:30, says the airport operator, an air traffic controller sounded an alarm, and two firefighting vehicles arrived at the scene within 2minutes of the touchdown.

An Embraer E190 from Myanmar National Airlines has performed a landing without its nose gear, leaving the aircraft in a disabled state on the runway.
The aircraft,operating flight UB103 from Yangon to Mandalay when the pilots had to perform a landing with the nose gear retracted. The landing came after the pilots performed two low passes for ground crew to report back if the gear was extended or not as well as emergency gear extension procedures.
The aircraft, with 89 passengers landed with no injuries.