Frontier Airlines is suing American Airlines for damages stemming from a groundhandling collision at Boston Logan International airport in November 2024, despite reaching a partial settlement back in September 2025. Frontier alleges in a 17 April complaint filed to the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts that American conducted an "out-of-compliance parking manoeuvre" late in the evening of 25 November 2024 which damaged one of its Airbus A321s. It explains that while the narrowbody jet was parked at gate E14A at the airport and was "properly positioned at the appropriate stop bar for an Airbus A321, with passengers on board", an American Boeing 777 was manoeuvring to park at the adjacent E13 gate. "During the American aircraft’s parking manoeuver at Gate E13, the American aircraft failed to maintain adequate clearance from the Frontier aircraft, resulting in the American aircraft colliding with and damaging the sharklet and wing of the Frontier aircraft," the complaint says. Frontier's aircraft was rendered out of service for six days and the repairs cost over $670,000, the complaint says. On 12 September 2025, American and Frontier reached a partial settlement, the complaint says, resolving 50% of the repair and restoration expense. "American has failed and refused to pay for the remaining damages arising from the incident," Frontier says. The airline is seeking monetary damages for uncompensated losses, as well as pre-judgement interest, costs and attorneys' fees, and any additional relief deemed appropriate by the court. Frontier tells Cirium: "Per standard practice, we are unable to offer any comment on pending litigation." Cirium has contacted American for comment

Ryanair will close its seven‑aircraft base at Berlin Brandenburg airport on 24 October and cut the number of flights it operates to and from the German capital by 50% over the winter. The airline cites the airport's decision to raise fees for the period 2027-29, on top of earlier post-pandemic increases. Traffic at Berlin has meanwhile fallen, Ryanair observes. All seven aircraft Ryanair currently has based in Berlin will be redeployed to European countries that have abolished aviation taxes, including Sweden, Slovakia, Albania and Italy, adds Ryanair. It will continue serving Berlin using aircraft based elsewhere, but expects passenger numbers will halve from 4.5 million to 2.2 million in 2027. "German aviation is broken," argues chief executive Eddie Wilson, adding: "It is uncompetitive, yet there is no strategy to cut aviation taxes or high airport fees – despite Ryanair warning that Germany would lose traffic, connectivity, jobs and trade." Ryanair has since 2019 closed bases in Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Stuttgart, and ended flights to several other German airports, while continuing to expand in lower‑cost European markets. Separately, the airline has announced that from 10 November check-in and bag drops for its flights will close 1h before departure, against 40min currently. This, it foresees, will "provide more time for passengers to get through airport security and passport queues, which will reduce the very small number of passengers who currently miss their flight departure as they are getting stuck in these airport queues".

Hawaiian Airlines has become a Oneworld member, joining sister carrier Alaska Airlines in the alliance, which also includes American Airlines. The addition of Hawaiian to Oneworld coincides with media reports – including by Bloomberg on 22 April – that the carrier's parent Alaska Air Group and American have been discussing a potential revenue-sharing arrangement. American and Alaska are codeshare partners through their membership in Oneworld. The two carriers had a codeshare partnership prior to Alaska becoming a full member of Oneworld in March 2021. In September 2024, Alaska Air Group completed its acquisition of Hawaiian. Under the terms of the deal, Alaska would acquire Hawaiian while retaining the latter's brand. In response to a question from Cirium about a revenue-sharing deal with American, Alaska cited its "long-standing policy to not comment on rumours or market speculation". During an earnings call on 23 April, American chief executive Robert Isom noted that the US major has "a great relationship with Alaska". He adds: "We really look forward to building on a history that's dated back a long time, not just to Oneworld, when we sponsored Alaska into [the alliance], but [also the development of] the WCIA [West Coast International Alliance]." The alliance, disclosed in February 2020, expanded the two carriers' domestic codeshare to include international routes from Los Angeles and Seattle.