Delta Air Lines has selected Boston Logan International airport as newest hub, in a rare growth move by a US network carrier establishing a new connecting complex. "We've been making significant investments in Boston this year… this has really enabled us to graduate Boston from what we consider a focus city to our newest coastal hub," says Amy Martin, managing director of domestic network planning at the Atlanta-based carrier, speaking at the Airport Council International-North America's Jump-start conference in Nashville yesterday. "Boston is actually very well positioned geographically to be a connecting point for US passengers going transatlantic," she says. "As we're getting to kind of our maximum capacity at [New York] JFK, using Boston as a secondary transatlantic gateway makes a lot of sense." "We're really focused on reinforcing our position as the number one global carrier in Boston," says Martin.

Portuguese investigators have found that an Embraer 190’s aileron cables had not been rigged the way they should have been, before a ferry flight, during which the pilots experienced severe in-flight control problems, in 2018.
The Air Astana aircraft went for scheduled maintenance at the OGMA facility at Alverca do Ribatejo before its departure for Almaty, via Minsk, on the 11th of November 2018. The crew experienced serious instability almost immediately after take off with abnormal attitudes, oscillations, momentary losses of control, and high structural loads during recovery maneuvering. Adverse weather conditions, intense g-forces, and continuous alerts from the cockpit systems worsened the situation. Such was the severity of the situation that the crew sought headings to fly out to sea, in order to ditch the aircraft.Portuguese investigation authority (GPIAA) says that a detailed examination of the E190 confirmed an “incorrect ailerons control cable system installation” on both wings. The six occupants of the aircraft – a captain and two first officers, plus three airline technicians – were all “physically and emotionally shaken” by the subsequent in-flight upset, but escaped serious injury.
GPIAA is continuing with the investigation in order to complete its analysis of the circumstances of the accident, and publish any relevant safety recommendations.

A lack of harmony when global regulators lift the grounding on the Boeing 737 Max will further complicate the plans of international carriers to restore the troubled aircraft to revenue service, said airline chiefs during a lively panel debate at the IATA's World Air Transport Summit in Seoul on the 2nd of June. Carriers operating in large countries like the USA and Canada may operate the aircraft on domestic routes after their regulators allow the 737 Max to return to the skies, but Singapore Airlines doesn't have "the luxury", said the carrier's chief executive Goh Choon Phong. "Everything I operate is international," he says. "Beyond having the approvals of authorities in Singapore, we would need approvals of other countries we operate to."
It is still unclear when the global grounding on the 737 Max will be lifted. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which was the last major regulator to ground the aircraft, had been in the crossfire for not taking action earlier. Concerns continue to linger over whether the regulator allowed the 737 Max to be rushed through certification.