Scandinavian operator SAS is to remove duty-free sales on board its aircraft in a bid to reduce weight and save on fuel costs. The airline says the measure will be implemented in autumn, as part of its overall strategy to cut emissions by 25% by 2030 compared with the 2005 baseline. SAS says duty-free sales has been in demand among those customers who have used it. "But our passengers’ buying behaviour has changed and sustainability has become more important than ever before," the carrier says. “Every step on the way to sustainable travel is important," says executive vice-president, commercial, Karl Sandlund. "Every initiative to reduce weight and thereby cut fuel consumption helps."

Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee has managed to reconstruct the flight of the Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 destroyed in a fatal fire at Moscow Sheremetyevo, as it prepares to release a preliminary analysis of the accident.
One month after the 5 May event the committee states that it has studied the wreckage, analysed flight recorders, decoded airborne and ground-based monitoring information, and examined images captured by surveillance video cameras. It says a "complete flight reconstruction" has been presented to the Russian ministry of transport following synchronisation of cockpit-voice recordings and air-ground communications with Moscow air traffic services. Investigation of the accident has already proven a sensitive and contentious matter, with Aeroflot having publicly rebuked senior government figures for making comments before the completion of the inquiry.

Iranian investigators have disclosed that the captain of an an ATR 72-500 ignored repeated suggestions from the first officer not to proceed with a landing at Tehran during a storm, before the aircraft sustained damage during the touchdown. The Iran Aseman Airlines aircraft has conducted an unstable approach in the adverse weather, with high levels of acceleration, says the Iranian Civil Aviation Organisation, citing flight-data recorder information. It states that the aircraft, arriving from Rasht on the 11th of June 2018, was travelling at 168kt below 2,000ft despite a limitation of 145kt and, as it passed through 850ft, it was descending at more than 1,000ft/min. The crew received glideslope warnings as well as a ground-proximity warning at 810ft. Upon touchdown the aircraft bounced four times with a maximum impact of over 1.9g. But the inquiry says the captain demonstrated no situational awareness regarding information from other flights and Tehran Mehrabad airport controllers, and relied instead on his visual interpretation of the weather. None of the 68 occupants were injured, however the ATR sustained damage to its nose-wheels, and components including probes, windows, and static dischargers.