United Airlines

New York – November 12, 2026 -- Spotnana now automates name changes for NDC and EDIFACT unused ticket credits, letting corporate travel managers move eligible credits into a company pool for use by other employees. The platform already redeems 96% of unused credits before expiration, and the company aims to push that figure as close to 100% as possible.

Travel managers can shift traveler-assigned credits into a shared company pool

Reassigning credits to another traveler was previously a manual, error-prone process. Managers can now select eligible credits tied to a specific traveler and transfer them into the pool. A future release will let them set rules that trigger the transfer automatically based on specific criteria.

Dulles, Virginia – November 10, 2026 -- United Airlines and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) are opening Concourse E at Washington Dulles International Airport on Nov. 10. The 435,000-square-foot facility adds 14 gates and is the airport's first new concourse in nearly two decades. United says the gates will let it fly more than 300 daily departures from Dulles next summer.

The concourse is the first visible piece of Dulles Global Gateway, a capital program of more than $20 billion that the Airports Authority, United and the U.S. Department of Transportation plan to deliver over the next decade. The program covers new and modernized concourses, additional gates, an enhanced Main Terminal, expanded AeroTrain service and a new U.S. Customs facility.

San Antonio – September 29, 2026 -- Alder Renewables has completed 1,000 hours of continuous operation at its integrated industrial pilot, producing on-spec Alder Renewable Crude (ARC) from commercially sourced woody biomass pyrolysis oil. The sustained run validates the company's low-temperature conversion process and generates operating data now feeding into equipment design for its first full-scale commercial project.

Pilot data will size larger commercial units

The 1,000-hour campaign confirmed Alder's integrated process can hold continuous operation while repeatedly meeting product specifications. Alder is applying the results to refine process controls, operating parameters and equipment design for scale-up engineering.

East Hartford, Conn. – September 25, 2026 -- Pratt & Whitney has delivered its first aircraft powered by the new GTF Advantage engine to United Airlines, an Airbus A321XLR, marking the commercial debut of the upgraded engine platform.

GTF Advantage doubles time on wing versus current engine model

The GTF Advantage features an upgraded hot section that Pratt & Whitney says will deliver up to twice the time on wing compared to today's GTF engine, along with 4-8% more takeoff thrust for extended range. The company calls it the most advanced hot section in the single-aisle engine market.