Philippine Airlines has returned an Airbus A321ceo to service and plans to reactivate more aircraft in the fourth quarter to "boost network reliability". The airline says the 199-seater, dual-class A321ceo will be used on domestic and regional routes. Fleets data shows the airline has one A321ceo, registered RP-C9928 (MSN 7357), currently showing as stored since being parked on 17 April. The 2016 vintage aircraft is powered by International Aero Engines V2500 engines. Two more aircraft are expected to join the fleet: a 363-seat A330-300, to be deployed on medium-haul routes, and an 86-seat De Havilland Dash 8-400NG, to be used for PAL's inter-island operations. Excluding these three jets, PAL already has 63 aircraft in service. In mid March, the airline indicated it planned to reactivate more aircraft to bring its in-service fleet to 75 by the year's end. Fleets data shows that PAL has a pair of A330-300s listed as stored. MSN 1449, registered as RP-C8782, was built in 2013, while MSN 1482, registered as RP-C8786 was built in 2014. Both jets are powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 772 engines. It also has a trio of Dash 8s in storage, and these are the oldest of the type in the fleet between 21 and 23 years old. MSN 4064, registered as RP-C3030, has been scheduled to be sold to an undisclosed party on 15 August since being parked in December 2020. MSN 4023, registered as RP-C3036, was parked in July 2022, while MSN 4069, registered as RP-C3031, has been parked since January 2019. PAL says it is in negotiations "to secure additional aircraft", without elaborating further. The airline commented. "We are taking various actions to boost our fleet count and enable us to meet the continuing surge in travel demand while minimising delays and cancellations," states PAL vice-president for network planning Christoph Gaertner. Gaertner says the airline has also "reduced some frequencies on a number of routes as part of a rationalisation of our schedules", to "ensure high reliability going forward". "We are working with our suppliers as well as aircraft and engine manufacturers on initiatives to increase efficiency without compromising safety, which is our absolute top priority," he adds. The airline in June firmed up the purchase of nine new A350-1000s for routes to North America and potentially to Europe. It also has 13 A321neos on order,

Legislation to continue funding the US Federal Aviation Administration has been approved by the nation's House of Representatives, leaving a Senate committee to advance its version of that bill for approval by that chamber. The House, which is the lower chamber of the US Congress, on 20 July voted 351 to 69 in favour of the FAA reauthorisation bill, required every five years to set funding and priorities for the agency. The current legislation enacted in 2018 expires on 30 September. The new legislation would, among other things, encourage the certification of and infrastructure development for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and other emerging aviation technologies. Some provisions of the bill have stoked debate in both the House and Senate. A narrow vote of 229 to 205 in the House, for instance, rejected a proposal to allow more flights to operate at Washington National airport (DCA), which United Airlines, American Airlines and Alaska Airlines had also opposed because of its potential to cause delays. The House bill would maintain existing standards for pilot training yet proposed moving the legally required pilot retirement age from 65 to 67. The Regional Airline Association trade group applauded the passage of the House version, stating that "the bill includes measures aimed at mitigating the growing pilot shortage and even more acute shortage of airline captains, which have driven a collapse in small community air service across the United States". "The bill expands the pilot workforce development program, which will improve outreach and support future pilots from all backgrounds, helping to improve diversity in pilot ranks by reducing financial barriers to aviation careers," states the RAA, which lobbies on behalf of US regional carriers that have faced particular difficulty competing for pilots with larger mainline. Airline worker unions, including the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) and the Air Line Pilots Association, opposed raising the retirement age, in part because it conflicts with the mandatory age of 65 set by the International Civil Aviation Organization. That United Nations agency has no enforcement power, yet the unions in a joint statement said raising the retirement age could endanger the ability of US pilots to operate internationally. While praising the passage of the FAA bill to fund the agency, the AFA union states it contains a "poison pill" because Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy used that chamber's Committee on Rules to deny a vote on whether to reject the pilot age increase. According to the House's website, the Rules Committee is the mechanism that the Speaker uses to maintain control of the House and "has the authority to do virtually anything during the course of consideration of a measure, including deeming it passed". The Democratic-controlled Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is debating these issues along with proposals that would mandate consumer protections from airlines including restrictions on fees charged for baggage or seating, which in turn could face opposition from the Republican-controlled House. The Senate committee discussed its version of FAA reauthorisation in executive session on 15 June, but has yet to schedule a vote on whether to advance the bill. Both chambers are required to propose their own bills and reconcile their differences before advancing the same bill for the US president to sign into law, a process intended to balance power in the US legislative branch.

Jet Airways has appointed Sundaram Ramesh as its new finance chief and director, alongside two other newly appointed board members, effective 20 July. The troubled Indian carrier named Ramesh as a whole-time director, according to a same-day filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. Gautam Acharya, a Jet Airways employee for the last 15 years managing aircraft leasing and contracts, regulatory affairs and legal, has also been named whole-time director. Rajesh Prasad will take up the post of non-executive director. Prasad's LinkedIn profile indicates he was the airline's chief strategy officer from July 2018 and September 2021, and had a 25-year stint at the State Bank of India (SBI). The board appointments are for a three-month term until 20 October, and can be extended at the discretion of the monitoring committee established to oversee implementation of the resolution plan as part of its corporate insolvency resolution process. Jet Airways has yet to appoint a new chief following the departure of chief executive-designate Sanjiv Kapoor on 1 May. Kapoor joined the airline in April 2022 to oversee plans to restart the airline. The airline was grounded in April 2019 and entered a corporate insolvency resolution process, emerging under its new owner, the Jalan Kalrock Consortium. The consortium was seeking to restrain the SBI from exercising a Rs1.5 billion ($18.3 million) performance bank guarantee relating to the transfer of Jet's ownership and was granted on 26 May more time to pay dues it owed the bank.