A first service is departing from Dublin airport's new North Runway on 24 August, and the new capacity is slated to unlock routes to Latin America, Asia and Africa. The runway is nearly 500m longer than the airport's current main one – the 2,637m runway 10/28 – and positioned 1,600m to the north. This will extend the reach of long-haul aircraft and potentially enable carriers to open new routes. Dublin airport's operator DAA says the runway will result in a 31% gain in connectivity for the island of Ireland by 2034, leading to the creation of 31,000 new jobs by 2043. "This new runway will further strengthen Ireland's ability to support more economic growth in terms of Irish exports, tourism and jobs," it adds. The runway featured in Dublin's expansion plans for many years but, while planning permission was granted in mid-2007, the subsequent global financial crisis then placed the project on hold. Construction only began in 2019. Upon opening, the North Runway will be available for operations from 7am to 11pm. Dublin airport has proposed extending the curfew to midnight.

IAG carrier British Airways is making further cancellations to its winter schedule as it looks to minimise last-minute disruption to services at the end of this year and start of 2023. The decision by London Heathrow airport to extend its 100,000-passenger daily cap to the end of October has also pushed BA to make further cutbacks to its flight schedule for the next two months. The move is a further demonstration of the problems faced by the carrier and wider industry as they seek to staff up after the pandemic. Airlines, airports and other service providers are struggling to handle a surge in demand. BA notes that as its intention is to protect half-term getaways "we will need to make some further cancellations up to the end of October". It adds: "In addition, we're giving customers travelling with us this winter notice of some adjustments to our schedule, which will include consolidating some of our short-haul flights to destinations with multiple services." BA has progressively cut services through 2022 in response to staffing problems and Heathrow's passenger cap. The airline previously axed roughly 13% of its summer schedule, highlights Goodbody analyst Mark Simpson. He notes that the latest winter season cuts amount to around 8% of its schedule, or 5,000 round trips. "As part of the winter cancellations, BA is consolidating some of its short-haul flights to destinations with multiple services, which should lessen the disruption for customers who can book a similar flight at a different time on the same day," he notes.

US regional carrier ExpressJet Airlines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will be liquidated in the coming weeks. The airline, which relaunched as leisure carrier Aha in October 2021 after losing its contract to operate flights on behalf of United Airlines the previous year, disclosed on 23 August that it had ceased all flight operations and filed for bankruptcy protection in Delaware. "A combination of conditions led us to this decision," states ExpressJet chief executive Subodh Karnik. "Despite the valiant efforts of our employees to overcome challenges, and despite great support by our cities and airports – especially Reno-Tahoe and the community there – we arrived at a point where termination of operations was in the best interest of our stakeholders." The carrier links to the decision to a lack of available aircraft, lower revenues due to Covid-19 variants and an inability to implement hotel bundle offers, and high fuel prices. It says it expects to enter into an "orderly, court-supervised liquidation in the coming weeks". At its peak, ExpressJet operated more than 450 aircraft. Having previously operated as Delta Connection and United Express for several decades, it was relaunched as Aha in October with a plan to use Reno-Tahoe International airport as a base from which to deploy 50-seat Embraer ERJ-145 aircraft on routes throughout the western USA.