Avianca Argentina has suspended operations, becoming the second airline owned by Avianca majority shareholder. The financially distressed airline requested to halt scheduled service for 90 days from 9 June, says Argentina's civil aviation authority ANAC. However, the airline's flights scheduled for today have been cancelled. "The request is based on the start of a process of restructuring the company with the re-engineering of the regular route plan and the company's business model," says ANAC of the airline's request. The 90-day extension may be extended for another 90 days upon expiration, adds the regulator. Before suspending its service, the airline operated 2 ATR 72-600's on 2 routes only.

American Airlines has removed the Boeing 737 Max from schedules to the end of September, as questions over when the jet will return to service continue to swirl. The Texas-based carrier has cancelled all flights operated by its fleet of 24 Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft through 3 September, it says today. It will cancel approximately 115 flights a day as a result. "American Airlines remains confident that impending software updates to the Boeing 737 Max, along with the new training elements Boeing is developing in coordination with our union partners, will lead to re certification of the aircraft soon," the airline says in a statement, adding that they are "pleased with the progress to date".

Hong Kong’s data watchdog has rapped Cathay Pacific’s “lax attitude” towards data governance in a report on a 2018 data breach that compromised the personal details of nearly 10 million passengers. “The fact that personal data is less tangible than other personalty [like bank notes] or realty does not absolve businesses of their failures to keep it safely and to obliterate it when it is no longer necessary for [its purpose],” states privacy commissioner for personal data Stephen Wong. “It is quite clear that contraventions aside, Cathay adopted a lax attitude towards governance, which fell short of the expectation of its affected passengers and the regulator.” Unknown attackers bypassed the cybersecurity of Cathay’s IT systems and exploited vulnerabilities in the system that led to the data breach. Cathay announced on 25 October that the personal information of 9.4 million passengers had been compromised in a data breach. Compromised information included names, identity and passport numbers, as well as contact details.