Italy's ITA Airways is resuming services from Rome Fiumicino to London Heathrow for the summer season. The carrier states that it will "further enhance connectivity" between the hubs with a twice-daily service. ITA axed the previous link in March 2024, data from slot co-ordinator ACL shows that ITA has been granted a temporary lease of two daily slots at Heathrow from Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings from 29 March to 26 October. Lufthansa Group has owned 41% of ITA since January last year, and the two companies have been integrating their operations. Data shows that ITA currently operates from Rome to London City airport, but this service will cease for the summer season. Across the coming summer season. the airline will operate to 19 domestic, 36 international and 17 intercontinental destinations as well as 12 seasonal ones to Italian, Greek and Spanish islands. Last year, Cirium data shows, it operated 71 summer routes. A new intercontinental route to Houston will be operated from 1 May, with three weekly flights initially, rising to five from June. That will be the first-ever direct connection between the Texan city and Rome. ITA notes that it is continuing the integration process with Lufthansa Group, encompassing 63 projects "aimed at generating benefits in terms of increased revenues and cost reductions". It highlights existing synergies including codeshares, loyalty programme co-operation, lounge access, alignment of fare structures, cargo traffic management and optimisation of flight-handling operations at the airlines' hubs.

South African Airways has reported a group net profit of R155 million ($9.6 million) for the year to end-March 2025, as it continued to rebuild its fleet and network after emerging from business rescue in 2021. This represents a recovery from a R354 million net loss the preceding year. Revenue rose 36% to R8.8 billion. The airline business – separately from the MRO, cargo and catering units – delivered a R30 million net profit. South Africa's transport minister Barbara Creecy, who oversees ownership of the nationalised company, describes the net result as "modest", while noting that SAA has passed the last of five outstanding audits. The airline's fleet expanded to 14 aircraft at the end of the period and has since risen to 19. It received permission to expand to 21 during the 2025 fiscal year. SAA notes that it has "methodically rebuilt" its network to 17 routes, resuming flights to Perth in April 2024. It also launched international routes to Lubumbashi and Dar es Salaam. "These results demonstrate that despite numerous challenges, SAA is on course for a bright future," states group chief executive John Lamola. "We have entered a period of structured and strategic stabilisation of the business, focusing on institutionalising robust governance and agile management systems. We are continuing to implement plans on aircraft fleet modernisation and route network expansion aimed at elevation of customer experience."

Air Canada has suspended its flights to Cuba, citing a shortage of aviation fuel on the island. Aviation advisories issued by governments "regarding the unreliability of the aviation fuel supply at Cuban airports" prompted Air Canada to suspend its flights to Cuba from 9 February, the carrier says. The White House in the USA on 29 January had issued an executive order imposing an additional tariff "on imports of goods that are products of a foreign country that directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides any oil to Cuba". "It is projected that as of February 10 aviation fuel will not be commercially available at the island's airports," says Air Canada, which is transporting extra fuel by tanker for flights it is operating to pick up approximately 3,000 customers already in Cuba. "Air Canada's immediate priority is to return customers already in Cuba to Canada," the carrier says. It adds that it will operate empty ferry flights to Cuba over the coming days. The carrier notes that it operates an average of 16 weekly flights to four destinations in Cuba from Toronto and Montreal. In February, Canadian carriers comprise three of the top six airlines by number of flights that operate routes to Cuba, Cirium schedules data shows. Besides Air Canada (ranking sixth), they include WestJet (first) and Air Transat (third). US carriers operating flights to Cuba in February include American Airlines (ranking second in number of flights), Delta Air Lines (12th) and Southwest Airlines (13th).