Fiji Airways Aviation Academy has added two new full flight simulators for the Airbus A350 and ATR-72 plus two new fixed training devices for the A330 and Boeing 737 Max 8, all from CAE. The academy now houses four full flight simulators covering all of Fiji Airways' and four fixed training devices covering all its fleet types, ready for training, the carrier says. The newly added simulators are certified by the EASA and the Civil Aviation Authority of Fiji. Early in 2023, the airline's board approved a FJ$160 million ($72 million) investment in the four additional pilot training devices that will double the existing synthetic training device footprint.

American Airlines has recently hired more than 500 maintenance workers for its bases in Charlotte, North Carolina; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The US major says that more than 385 of those employees are licensed aviation maintenance technicians. American's vice-president of base maintenance and facilities Greg Emerson states: "It's an opportunity to grow our maintenance capacity and capabilities in the near term and preserve them over the long run by continuing to build our pipeline of future maintenance team members." This expansion builds on recent growth at the Tulsa base, supported by a $22 million grant issued under the state of Oklahoma's Business Expansion Incentive programme, the Fort Worth-based carrier says.

Thai Airways has submitted a petition to amend its business rehabilitation plan to the national justice ministry's legal execution department. The airline says "it is absolutely necessary" to amend the plan so that it can decrease registered capital by reducing the par value of shares. It adds that the change would lower accumulated losses. A capital reduction would also, it notes, enable it to consider making future dividend payments to shareholders and creditors from the debt-to-equity conversion. The proposal will be considered at a creditors' meeting on 8 November.