interCaribbean Airways CEO Trevor Sadler, speaking at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Latin America & Caribbean, stated (11-Sep-2026) "We're focused on growing to where we see opportunity", adding the carrier currently operates to 24 cities in 18 countries with "plenty more to come". Mr Sadler said interCaribbean Airways' fleet has "emerged and evolved", adding: "We tried to retire our Twin Otters, but there could never be anything to replace them, so we ended up buying three more", adding: "We keep those flying on some very short flights". He confirmed the airline is expecting delivery of its third Embraer E170 out of eight on order "soon", noting: "As quick as we can run them through the maintenance required to put into service, we will also then be expanding our footprint". As previously reported by CAPA, interCaribbean stated it is "the first and only operator of the EMB120, ERJ145 and E170 series aircraft anywhere in the world". [more - CAPA TV]
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Arajet VP alliances Mercedes Martínez Ballesty, speaking at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Latin America & Caribbean, stated (11-Sep-2026) the LCC is expecting "a lot of growth", adding: "We already have 16 [Boeing 737 MAX 8s]. We have a couple more coming in the short term". Ms Ballesty continued: "We are open to evaluate interlining agreements, codeshare agreements with legacy traditional carriers and with some of them that are not". She stated: "There's every type of partnership going on right now. Maybe 15 years ago, that was not the case, but you have a lot of very successful examples out there in various different regions with legacy carriers cooperating with maybe low-cost carriers or value carriers". Ms Ballesty noted: "I think that there's a lot of opportunity". [more - CAPA TV]
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Canada's Minister of Transport Steven MacKinnon announced (24-Sep-2026) an expanded air transport agreement with Vietnam, enabling direct services between both countries for the first time. The agreement includes up to 14 times weekly passenger combination services per country, up to seven times weekly all cargo services per country and fifth freedom rights for all cargo services. [more - original PR]
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Canada previously expanded bilaterals with Nigeria and Mongolia, both enabling first-ever direct services, with fifth freedom rights for all-cargo operations and capacity allowances including 14 weekly passenger frequencies in the Nigeria deal.1 2 Canada also pursued broader liberalisation elsewhere, including incremental increases for China and expanded agreements for Saudi Arabia and the UAE featuring higher passenger entitlements, unlimited all-cargo and open fifth freedom cargo rights.3 4
Russia's Ministry of Transport announced (25-Sep-2026) aeronautical authorities of Russia and Vietnam signed a MoU on air services. The countries increased permitted frequency between Russia and Vietnam to 105 times weekly. The parties are continuing work on expanding the network to Vietnam, including from Barnaul, Blagoveshchensk, Kazan and Novokuznetsk. Four Russian carriers operate 11 Vietnam routes 39 times weekly and two Vietnamese carriers operate 13 Russia routes 31 times weekly. Russian and Vietnamese carriers are forecast to record more than two million passengers between Russia and Vietnam in 2026. [more - original PR - Russian]
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Abra Group 'very optimistic' on demand for services to Venezuela: CCO
Abra Group chief commercial officer (CCO) Angus Clarke, speaking at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Latin America & Caribbean, stated (10-Sep-2026) "Venezuela, when it opened up again, became instantly a good market for us", adding: "The market is still resilient and coming back". Mr Clarke said the market is "moving back into Caracas well" with the reopening of Caracas Simon Bolivar International Airport. He added demand for services to Venezuela "slowed up a bit, but I think we're going to see it come back nicely. We're very optimistic". [more - CAPA TV]
Boeing confirms production updates for 737, 787 and 777-9
Boeing reported (16-Sep-2026) the following business updates:
- CEO Kelly Ortberg stated stabilising 737 MAX production and moving to higher rates on the 737 and 787 programmes is "taking a bit longer than what I had anticipated". Mr Ortberg added: "We're now driving at 47 a month, but we are not stable yet at 47 a month", noting: "That's been our task here to get stable";
- Mr Ortberg said 737 MAX 10 certification is coming "very soon", adding: "We're in close coordination" with the US FAA and adding: "We've completed all the flight testing. Now we're just in the documentation phase";
- Boeing stabilised 787 production at eight aircraft per month and plans to increase to 10 per month in 2027. CFO Jay Malave said the company is preparing for future rate increases. Mr Malave stated: "Our second assembly facility is under construction today", noting: "We expect that to be complete next year so that helps us start thinking about these future rates";
- 777-9 testing continues, with the aircraft type remaining on track for first delivery in 2027. [more - original PR]