DLD 455: Well, that was unexpected

A couple major unexpected events this week caught us off guard, but we're doing our best to get through it all. Also in this episode: * Alaska/Horizon incident * Akbar is out at Qatar Airways * Delta rolls back some loyalty changes * New liveries for Air India Express and Avianca * Air France closing Orly ops (Transavia will remain) in 2026 * MEA moving planes out of Lebanon * Alaska Airlines adding Anchorage-JFK/SAN and other MAX 8 routes * Air Greenland Nuuk-Iqaluit For our Patreon subscribers we have bonus content, including: * Boeing pumping cash into Spirit Aerosystems * UA/EI codeshare is dead * UA/HA Handea fight still smoldering * ZIPAIR HND-PDX? * Delta bringing live television to the 767-400s (and probably more widebodies, eventually) * UA gets first A321neo And plenty more. Enjoy the show!