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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]

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]

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]

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]