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).

Airbus delivered 19 commercial aircraft in January, its lowest figure for the month in more than a decade. Deliveries in January tend to be lower than in later months of the year. Since the onset of the Covid pandemic, Airbus's January deliveries have fluctuated between 20 and 30 – a range defined by the figures for January 2023 and January 2024, respectively. It had delivered 39 aircraft in January 2019, and 31 in 2020's first month. This year's January deliveries comprised 10 A321neos, five A320neos, three A220s and one A350. Airbus meanwhile booked orders for 49 aircraft, data from the European airframer shows. It discloses no cancellations. Its sole widebody order in the month came from Air Algerie, for an additional A330-900. The North African carrier had in November taken delivery of its first of eight on-order A330-900s. It received the second in December. Fleet data indicates that a seven-year-old A330-900 (MSN 1844) owned by Airbus Financial Services was ferried to Algerian capital Algiers on 14 January and subsequently entered service with the state carrier. MSN 1844 had been in service with Air Belgium, also on lease from Airbus, between 2021 and 2024 Airbus's other January orders comprise eight A321neos for undisclosed customers and 10 new single-aisles (eight A320neos and two A321neos) for IAG. That European airline group transferred five single-aisle orders (three A320neos and two A321neos) to subsidiary British Airways and one A320neo order to Aer Lingus, Airbus data shows. An order from Chinese carrier Spring Airlines for 24 A320neos and six A321neos had been disclosed in December.