Delta Air Lines’ COO Mike Spanos is leaving the company after a little over a year in the job, the company said in a filing Friday. The airline doesn’t currently have plans to replace Spanos, according to a memo from CEO Ed Bastian. Instead, two of his executives will now report to the CEO: John Laughter, chief of operations, and Allison Ausband, who heads the customer experience division. Spanos is leaving Delta in early September to take a position at another company, Bastian said in the memo.<br/>
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Air France is suspending flights to Tel Aviv and Beirut scheduled for Sunday and Monday after Israel launched air strikes into Lebanon, the airline said. "Flights today and tomorrow are suspended," a spokesman for the French carrier said, adding that the suspension could be extended depending on the situation in the Middle East. Air France, which usually runs a daily service to both cities, had already halted flights to Beirut between July 29 and August 15, but has kept flying to Tel Aviv. Air France's subsidiary Transavia, which serves both destinations, is also halting its flights, the spokesman said. Any resumption of services to the two destinations will depend on the result of a new assessment of the security situation, Air France said in a statement.<br/>