American Airlines announced a code-sharing agreement with India's largest airline IndiGo on Tuesday, with the US airline gearing up to launch new flights between the two countries. The agreement, which is expected to begin in October, will see American's "code" on 29 of IndiGo's domestic routes in India. Code-sharing allows an airline to sell seats on a flight operated by its partner, so that it can fly passengers to destinations it does not serve. The pact with IndiGo airlines, which is India's largest airline by number of passengers carried and owned by InterGlobe Aviation, requires approval of US and Indian authorities, American said. The company is launching a new service between New York and India's capital Delhi next month and between Seattle and the city of Bengaluru early next year.<br/>
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The Royal Jordanian Airlines will resume flights to Syria after nearly a decade. Jordan's national airline made the announcement on Tuesday that it would fly to the war-torn country starting Oct. 3. The nation said on Monday that it would fully reopen Jaber -- the main crossing between Jordan and Syria -- on Tuesday. Ministers from both countries met in Amman for two days. Resuming flight service between the countries is one of several moves aimed at restoring relations. The ministers also agreed to cooperate in the energy, water and agricultural sectors. The nations will increase commercial trading, reinstate a joint water committee regulating the Yarmouk water basin, and reactivate an electrical line to help the damaged electrical infrastructure in Syria. They also discussed transporting gas and electricity to crisis-stricken Lebanon. <br/>
Finnair has raised more than $400m in cash from a sale-and-leaseback covering four previously-delivered Airbus A350-900s, its largest single aircraft-financing transaction. The aircraft are being sold to lessors GECAS and Pacific Investment Management. Finnair will lease back the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-powered twinjets for an average of 12 years, it says. The aircraft were originally delivered over the course of June 2017 to February 2019. Finnair says the transaction is part of its strategy to recover from the air transport crisis. It says the agreement will have an “immediate positive cash effect” although the impact on its Q2 operating result will not be significant.<br/>