Japan Airlines and ENEOS have signed an agreement for the sale and purchase of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The carrier says ENEOS will become the first Japanese energy company to import SAF and supply it to JAL, which is actively seeking SAF both domestically and internationally. JAL has set targets to replace 1% of its total fuel with SAF by fiscal year 2025 and 10% by 2030. Meanwhile, ENEOS is working on developing an integrated system for SAF, covering raw materials procurement, manufacturing, and sales.

LOT Polish Airlines has taken delivery of the first of three Embraer E195-E2 aircraft leased from Azorra. The remaining two are expected to be delivered by October, says the Brazilian airframer. The delivery comes fewer than three months after the carrier inked a deal to lease three of the examples from Azorra, Embraer notes. The E195-E2 is intended to enhance operational flexibility and support LOT's network expansion. Embraer commercial aviation president Arjan Meijer states: "We welcome our long-term partner LOT as the 17th E2 operator 20 years after they inducted their first E170 as the global launch customer for the E-jets - in the last two years the number of E2 operators has almost doubled (88%). Along with our leasing colleagues at Azorra, we are proud to have been able to deliver these jets in double quick time to meet our customer’s needs."

Boeing in June and July produced "roughly" 25 737 Max aircraft each month, and foresees that it will reach a rate of 38 per month by the end of this year. The US airframer is allowed to produce no more than 38 units per month under the US Federal Aviation Administration's production cap. In late May, Boeing delivered to the FAA a comprehensive action plan addressing its systemic quality-control issues. That was part of the FAA's increased oversight of Boeing in the wake of the Max 9 door-plug blow-out accident in January. "We've got proof points that [say] we've got a real ability to hit our 38 per month as we exit the year," said Boeing chief financial officer Brian West during a 31 July earnings call. "[With] the 737 rate ramps, keep in mind [that at the] beginning part of this year, we were very, very low production, like single digit. And now we're getting to the point in June, July, where we're kind of mid-20s. August will likely be an improvement." He notes that Boeing has reactivated the third production line in its Renton, Washington factory. Additionally, Boeing has transferred its fuselage inspection process from Renton to Wichita, Kansas, the home of fuselage supplier Spirit AeroSystems. Boeing on 1 July disclosed that it had agreed to acquire Spirit, a deal which the airframer expects will close in mid-2025, and which is subject to regulatory approval. "The [Renton] factory is currently operating within or near the KPI control limits laid out with the FAA as part of the safety and quality plan," West says. "[It is] operating with all fully inspected fuselages today, and near-term production will continue to be paced by fuselages from Wichita. More broadly on the master schedule, we continue to make adjustments as needed, and that is supplier by supplier based on inventory levels. Our objective remains to keep the supply chain paced ahead of final assembly to support stability and minimise travelled work." Outgoing chief executive Dave Calhoun notes that Boeing this year has nearly tripled the number of its on-site inspectors at Spirit's base in Wichita. "Defects we initially caught and reworked in Renton are now caught and reworked in Wichita," Calhoun says. "While this dramatically reduced the number of clean fuselages coming from Spirit in the first few months, we have seen steady improvement ever since. The improvements in quality have significantly improved our Renton flow times over that same period."