El Al has cancelled all flights until 19 June as Israeli airspace remains closed amid escalating tensions between Tel Aviv and Tehran. Meanwhile, flights to and from Israel from Berlin, Tbilisi, Barcelona, Batumi, Warsaw, Rhodes, Munich, Tivat, Lisbon, Tokyo, Krakow, Venice, Thessaloniki, Marseille, Crete, Kefalonia, Santorini, Chisinau, Belgrade, Tirana, Porto, Mykonos, Lefkada, and Moscow will be cancelled till 23 June, states the carrier in a 15 June announcement. The carrier adds that flights scheduled to depart up to and including 30 June have also been closed on the booking system. "This is until the security situation becomes clearer and with the aim of providing solutions for Israelis whose flights were cancelled," states the carrier. "We are working in full coordination with governmental security authorities and prioritizing the safety and security of passengers and crew," it adds. Israel's transport ministry announced 13 June that its airspace will remain closed until further notice, as the two countries engage in retaliatory missile strikes despite global calls for restraint. Several other carriers have also cancelled and diverted their flights to Israel and other Middle East destinations following the strikes.

India's government has established a high-level committee to investigate the cause of the fatal crash of an Air India Boeing 787-8 on 12 June, and ordered urgent inspections of all 33 of the carrier's 787-8 and 787-9 aircraft. The committee – which is being led by India's home secretary and includes officials from the country's ministry of civil aviation, the Gujarat state government, the Indian air force and the directorate of forensic sciences – had its first meeting scheduled for 16 June. It plans to publish an initial report within three months. The committee's probe will run alongside the investigation that is being conducted by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau. The AAIB investigation will examine the technical aspects behind the crash, while the high-level committee will provide a "holistic, policy-oriented roadmap for future safeguards", says the ministry of civil aviation. Addressing journalists at a filmed press conference on 14 June, civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu said: "The composition of the high-level committee involves people from various backgrounds and the people we feel can bring in a lot of expertise and value to the committee, which is going to investigate the incident in a holistic way. "We have put a time limit of three months for them to sit down, talk to various stakeholders, and involve and discuss with any other important expert that is necessary as per their investigation." The Indian government has also ordered an "extended surveillance" of all Boeing 787-series aircraft in India's fleet. Cirium fleets data shows that Air India has 26 remaining 787-8s as well as seven 787-9s. All 33 widebodies are powered by GE Aerospace GEnx engines. Inspections on eight of Air India's 787s have already been carried out, says the government, and the remaining aircraft are being checked "on an urgent basis". The civil aviation ministry says it has also "intensified ongoing surveillance of maintenance protocols and airworthiness procedures for all widebody aircraft operating in India". Air India flight 171 crashed on 12 June within one minute of take-off from Ahmedabad airport, bound for London Gatwick. It was carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members. Indian authorities are in the process of matching DNA to determine the total number of people killed, including those on board and those on the ground. Media reports have indicated that all but one of those on board died as well as at least 30 people on the ground. Both the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) have been recovered, the BBC and others are reporting.

Airbus is considering the possibility of adopting the A321XLR's wing for standard A321neo variants to improve the single-aisle's performance. The A321XLR's wing generates lower drag and has better high-lift efficiency than the standard A321neo wing, said the European airframer's A320-family chief engineer, Marc Guinot, during a media briefing in Toulouse on 11 June. Airbus introduced a single-slotted inboard landing-flap on the A321XLR – previous A321 variants had a double-slotted design – and a revised flap operation with additional, intermediate settings for the high-lift system. This was part of a number of changes designed to increase the single-aisle's range, notably by introducing a rear centre fuel tank (RCT) in the A321XLR's lower fuselage and reinforced landing gear to accommodate a higher maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of 101t, from 97t. Studies shows that adopting the A321XLR's wing may deliver a 1% fuel saving for other A321neo variants, Guinot says, noting that the efficiency gains will need to be verified in flight tests. Beyond fuel savings, he foresees production efficiencies by adopting a single A321neo wing configuration and increased commonality for pilots. The double-slotted flap design was introduced on the original A321 during the early 1990s. All shorter A320-family jets are equipped with single-slotted flaps. The current A321neo family spans a baseline model, a long-range variant using optional fuel tanks that can be installed in the forward cargo bay, and the A321XLR. Guinot notes there is no plan to adopt the A321XLR's strengthened landing gear on other variants. He says that Airbus is considering an MTOW increase for the A321XLR as part of measures to meet the aircraft's original range specification. During the A321XLR's certification, Airbus had to add around 300kg to the aircraft to meet certification requirements for the RCT, which reduced range by 50-70nm. Guinot says the planned measures include a quicker landing-gear retraction cycle, to improve climb performance after take-off. The measures are designed to recover the range-loss but not to reduce the additional weight required for the final RCT configuration.