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The A350-1000 received type certificates from both EASA and the FAA on 21 November 2017, less than a year after its first flight and after more than 1,600 flight-test hours on three aircraft.

Airbus and Emirates signed a contract for 20 additional A380s, with 16 further options, in a US$16 billion deal at list prices. It was widely read as keeping the A380 line alive.

Airbus handed over the world's first A350-1000 to launch customer Qatar Airways at Toulouse on 20 February 2018, the first Airbus aircraft fitted with the Qsuite business class, which flew its first revenue service four days later.

Boeing delivered the first 787-10 to launch customer Singapore Airlines at North Charleston on 25 March 2018, with 3,000 people at the ceremony. Singapore Airlines had ordered 49 of the type and became the first group to operate all three Dreamliner variants.

The Airbus-Bombardier C Series deal closed on 1 July 2018, giving Airbus 50.01 percent of the partnership; the jets were renamed the A220-100 and A220-300 on 10 July.

Airbus delivered the first A350-900ULR, MSN220 9V-SGA, to launch customer Singapore Airlines on 22 September 2018; the 161-seat, 9,700 nm aircraft restarted the Singapore-Newark nonstop three weeks later.

EASA certified the A330-900 on 26 September 2018 after about 1,400 flight-test hours in under a year. Airbus said FAA certification would follow shortly and the first delivery to TAP Air Portugal in the coming weeks.

Airbus delivered the first A330-900 to launch operator TAP Air Portugal on 26 November 2018, a 298-seat aircraft leased from Avolon. TAP will take 20 more A330-900s and use them on routes to the Americas and Africa.

On 14 February 2019 Airbus said it would stop delivering the A380 in 2021 after Emirates cut its order from 162 to 123 aircraft. Emirates ordered 40 A330-900s and 30 A350-900s worth US$21.4 billion at list prices instead.

The FAA issued an Emergency Order of Prohibition on March 13, 2019 grounding the 737 MAX 8 and 9 three days after Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed, joining regulators worldwide in a 20-month grounding.

The first Boeing 777-9, test airplane WH001, took off from Paine Field at 10:09 a.m. on 25 January 2020 and landed at Boeing Field after a 3 hour 51 minute flight.

FAA Administrator Steve Dickson signed an order on November 18, 2020 rescinding the 737 MAX grounding and published an airworthiness directive requiring the design changes before the 737-8 and 737-9 could carry passengers again.

The largest 737 MAX, the 737-10, took off from Renton at 10:07 a.m. on June 18, 2021 and landed at Boeing Field after about two and a half hours, starting a test program Boeing then expected to end in 2023.

Airbus announced with its half-year results on 29 July 2021 that its board had approved development of an A350 freighter derivative, targeting entry into service in 2025 with 20% less fuel burn than twin-engine freighters.

On 16 December 2021 Emirates received the last Airbus A380, A6-EVS, its 123rd, ending 14 years of deliveries. The ceremony was muted and the jet left Hamburg-Finkenwerder at 16:41 CET for Dubai.

Airbus's first A321XLR, MSN 11000, took off from Hamburg-Finkenwerder at 11:05 CEST on 15 June 2022 and flew about four and a half hours.

Boeing delivered the last 747, a 747-8 Freighter for Atlas Air, in Everett on 31 January 2023 before thousands of employees and guests. It was the 1,574th 747 built, ending more than half a century of production.

EASA certified the CFM LEAP-1A-powered A321XLR on 19 July 2024, clearing the 4,700 nmi single-aisle for service at the end of the summer.

Airbus delivered the first A321XLR to Iberia in Hamburg on 30 October 2024, making the Spanish carrier launch operator of the 4,700 nmi single-aisle.

The first A350-1000ULR, MSN707 F-WULR, flew from Toulouse on 2 June 2026 for 3 hours 43 minutes, starting a two-month campaign to certify the rear centre tank that lets Qantas plan 22-hour Project Sunrise flights.

The A350-1000ULR test aircraft left Toulouse at 07:33 on 23 July 2026 and landed in Melbourne 19 hours 12 minutes later, the first Project Sunrise aircraft to reach Australia; the return flight took 24 hours 24 minutes.

Boeing's 13 October 2026 delivery release counts 22 787s delivered in the third quarter and 62 so far this year, and its second-quarter filing says the line had stabilized at eight a month. Boeing plans to move to 10 a month at its South Carolina expansion.

The FAA certified the Boeing 737 MAX 10, the largest and last member of the 737 MAX family, on October 20, 2026, issuing an amended type certificate and clearing Boeing to begin deliveries with WestJet first.

A newly opened ramen restaurant in Tomioka, Teine-ku. The operator confirms its October 22 opening and service from 11:00 to 22:00, with last orders at 21:30. The photo shows the completed Sapporo storefront. Sapporo menu items and prices remain unverified.

An announced ten-seat sushi restaurant on the fifth floor of Koshido 3・3 Building, scheduled to open November 21. Its published ¥16,000 Nagi course includes Hokkaido seafood and nigiri; a private room carries a separate ¥2,000 charge per room. Card photo shows the host building, not a completed dining room.

As of 21 October 2026 the 777-9 is still in FAA type-certification testing: ETOPS flight-test approval is on hold over a GE9X engine mid-seal issue, and the FAA Administrator has said he hopes certification comes early in 2027.

As launch customer, WestJet expects to take the first Boeing 737-10 in early 2027 once Transport Canada and EASA validate the FAA certification, which Boeing's Mike Sinnett put at "probably a couple months" away.