Cathay Pacific is planning to recruit over 800 additional cadet pilots by the end of 2024, up significantly from around 250 cadets recruited in 2022. The airline disclosed the target at a graduation ceremony for 19 new pilots that recently graduated from its long-running training programme with Flight Training Adelaide. They will join the carrier as second officers from July. Cathay adds that there are over 400 cadet pilots currently in its training pathways. This includes a new programme developed with Hong Kong Polytechnic University where cadets undertake ground training in Hong Kong and flight training at AeroGuard Flight Training Center in Arizona or Flight Training Adelaide. A total of 177 cadets are expected to graduate across its two training programmes this year.

AerCap has placed three used Embraer E195-E1s on lease with South African airline Airlink. The first was delivered in March, while the second and third are scheduled for delivery in July, the lessor says. Airlink is a new customer for AerCap.

Airlines will not get an extension of their 1 July deadline to retrofit certain aircraft types with radio frequency filters that reduce the risk of 5G telecommunications interference, US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg has said in a letter written to the leader of the trade group representing US carriers. Buttigieg notes on 23 June in the letter to Airlines for America (A4A) chief executive Nicholas Calio that while "the bulk" of the domestic commercial fleet has been retrofitted and is now equipped to operate safely amid 5G C-band telecommunications, some operators "still have work to do". The White House, he adds, for the past year has "consistently" reminded carriers that on 1 July, AT&T, Verizon and other wireless carriers will begin operating their networks at higher power levels authorised under the terms of their licenses with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and that the 1 July 2023 date is an extension agreed to among telecommunications companies and airlines on top of the original delay from December 2021. "As you know, this [1 July] deadline will not change, nor does the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have the authority to change the date," Buttigieg says in the letter. "And of course, the FAA will only allow flight operations in the national airspace that are safe." Buttigieg further warns Calio that US and foreign carriers should not risk the "unrealistic scheduling of flights" by including in their plans aircraft that they know will not have been retrofitted for the 5G environment in time for the 1 July deadline. "This means carriers should consider how many of their aircraft still need to be retrofitted when setting and adjusting schedules to avoid causing consumers to rely on an unrealistic published schedule to their detriment," Buttigieg says. On 24 June, Calio sent Buttigieg a letter in which he said that A4A airline members are committed "to doing everything within their power to deliver a safe and on-time product not only over the [US Fourth of July] holiday weekend but throughout the entire summer". Calio suggests in the letter that A4A's member carriers are not responsible for cancellations and delays caused by the maligned federal air traffic control system in the USA. "For instance, one of our A4A member carriers estimate that air traffic control (ATC)-related issues were a factor in at least one-third of recent cancellations," Calio writes to Buttigieg. "We appreciate the FAA’s acknowledgement of controller staffing challenges and would like to request a meeting to discuss how we can work together to better understand FAA’s controller staffing plan for the upcoming July 4 weekend and summer travel season." Calio in the letter to the transportation secretary – copied to acting FAA administrator Billy Nolen – makes no mention of the 1 July deadline for the 5G retrofit.