An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot seated in the jump seat in the flight deck of a Horizon Air Embraer 175 was foiled in an attempt to disrupt engine power on a flight to San Francisco from Everett, Washington. Regional carrier Horizon is a subsidiary of Alaska. The 22 October flight was diverted to Portland International. All passengers on board were able to travel on a later flight, Alaska says. "The jump-seat occupant unsuccessfully attempted to disrupt the operation of the engines," Alaska says, adding: "The Horizon captain and first officer quickly responded, engine power was not lost and the crew secured the aircraft without incident." According to the Multnomah County sheriff's office, Joseph David Emerson, 44, was arrested at 04:11 on 23 October and charged with 83 counts of attempted murder, 83 counts of reckless endangerment and one count of endangering an aircraft. Portland, Oregon, where the Horizon jet landed, is the Multnomah County seat. The event is also being investigated by the FBI, whose Portland bureau says in a statement that it "can assure the travelling public there is no continuing threat related to this incident". Emerson is scheduled to be arraigned in a court in Portland at 14:05 on 24 October

AerCap has agreed to lease 28 new Boeing aircraft to Turkish Airlines. The aircraft, comprising 25 737 Max 8s and a trio of 787-9s, will be delivered between 2024 and 2026, the Irish lessor says. Additionally, AerCap has reached an agreement with the Turkish flag carrier to extend the leases on six used Airbus A330-200s. Fleets data indicates that AerCap also manages five aircraft in service with the Star Alliance airline: three A321s, including two Neos, plus a 737-800 and a 777-200.

A number of airlines are continuing to adjust their services to Tel Aviv Ben Gurion International airport for November as Israel's military moves closer towards a ground operation in Gaza. Schedules changes made on 20 October show that in total 316 weekly sectors into and out of Tel Aviv have been cancelled from the November schedule over the week, cutting seat capacity by over 66,000 seats per week. That figure does not include cancellations from Cathay Pacific, which advised on 22 October that it has cancelled its Tel Aviv services until the end of the year. It had already cancelled services to the end of October. Korean Air has also cancelled flights until January, schedules show, and a notice on its website confirms that it has issued a fare waiver for passengers booked on its services to and from Tel Aviv until the end of the year. TAP Air Portugal and Transavia have cancelled flights through to January. Schedules show that Lufthansa Group has adjusted its capacity to Tel Aviv, with it cancelling 21 Lufthansa flights that were scheduled to operate in November, daily Swiss services, and eight Brussels Airlines flights. Those changes reduce Lufthansa's November schedule to Tel Aviv to twice-daily, Swiss to daily and Brussels to six weekly. Austrian Airlines, meanwhile, has halved the number of services it will operate into Israel to daily. Turkish Airlines has removed 61 weekly return services to Israel from its schedule for November, which will be reduced to only twice-daily services per week. Compatriot carrier Pegasus has cut 33 return services but will still operate 10 per week through November. Week-on-week, El Al has not made any changes to its November schedule, while Israir has cut 10 sectors from Tel Aviv. Arkia has added six sectors, but on a weekly basis will operate 1,392 fewer seats during November.