Thousands More Flight Delays, Cancellations Kick Off the 2022 New Year
More than 3,800 worldwide flights have been canceled today, over 2,200 of them that were scheduled to fly within, out… Read More »
Drunk Passenger Reportedly Punches Cop After Being Denied Boarding
After nearly 6,000 reported incidents of verbal and physical abuse of flight crews in U.S. planes by passengers in 2021… Read More »
Indonesia Air Transport to start commercial flight ops
Indonesia Air Transport – IAT (IDA, Jakarta Halim) is set to venture into the commercial flight operations niche after being… Read More »
Cathay Pacific cancels longhaul cargo flights for seven days
Cathay Pacific (CX, Hong Kong Int’l) has confirmed it has suspended all long-haul cargo flights for seven days until January… Read More »
What Are Your Options If Your Flight Is Canceled?
It’s no secret that the last week and a half have been chaotic for air travel – nearly 10,000 cancellations… Read More »
Airlines Again Offering Extra Pay for Crew to Work Through January
U.S. airlines, stung by the week-long disaster of cancellations and delays that shows no signs of abating, are once again… Read More »
Travelers Still Flying Despite Omicron, Short Staffs and Weather
The numbers are staggering. Almost 10,000 flights in the U.S. alone have been canceled in the last nine days between… Read More »
Top overseas vacation destinations Americans want
Just as countries have started to lift pandemic travel bans and Americans begin to at least think about booking vacations… Read More »
United Airlines offers pilots triple pay to ease omicron flight disruptions
United Airlines is offering its pilots triple pay to pick up trips for most of January to help ease a… Read More »
Airline Lobby Group Asks for Delay in New 5G Wireless Service
The airline industry’s chief lobby group, Airlines for America (A4A), is asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to delay next… Read More »
FAA To Holiday Travelers: Flight Delays, Cancellations Will Continue
Holiday travel pandemonium persists today for the eighth day in a row, with nearly 1,300 U.S. flight cancellations recorded as… Read More »
Woman Tests COVID-Positive Mid-Flight, Quarantines in Airplane Lavatory
A Chicago resident who recently traveled to Iceland and self-tested COVID-19 positive in mid-air, voluntarily isolated herself inside the airplane… Read More »
Pilot shortage forces United to suspend 15 regional routes
United Airlines (UA, Chicago O’Hare) is temporarily dropping 15 regional routes and shifting some services to New York Newark from… Read More »
Norse Atlantic Airways secures its Norwegian AOC
Norse Atlantic Airways (Oslo Gardermoen) secured its Norwegian Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) – NO.AOC.093 – on December 29, 2021, bringing… Read More »
Austrian Airlines repays €60mn of COVID aid by year-end
Austrian Airlines (OS, Vienna) will have repaid EUR60 million euros (USD68 million) or 20% of its EUR300 million (USD340 million)… Read More »
Wizz Air outlines Gatwick plans having secured 15 more slots
Wizz Air Holdings has outlined its plans for the 15 daily London Gatwick slot pairs it acquired from Norwegian Group… Read More »
Bahrain’s Texel Air takes delivery of first 737-800(BCF)
Texel Air (XLR, Bahrain Int’l) took delivery of its first B737-800(BCF) on December 19, 2021. N851BC (msn 29985) is a… Read More »
AirAsia Group completes $233mn rights issue
AirAsia Group will complete its renounceable rights issue to shareholders on December 31, raising MYR974.5 million ringgit (USD233.3 million) and… Read More »
U.S. State Dept warns Americans traveling abroad to ‘make contingency plans’
The State Department warned on Thursday Dec. 30 that Americans who are traveling abroad “should make contingency plans” as countries… Read More »
Omicron virus and unruly passengers deter U.S. airline staff from holiday overtime
U.S. airline cabin crew, pilots and support staff are reluctant to work overtime during the holiday travel season despite being… Read More »
Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airlines is suspending cargo flights due to virus controls
Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airlines is suspending cargo flights for a week due to stricter quarantine requirements for air crews,… Read More »
U.S. airline group A4A seeks 5G wireless deployment delay near airports
The aviation industry and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration have raised concerns that 5G might interfere with sensitive aircraft electronics… Read More »
JetBlue cuts hundreds of January flights due to omicron surge as travel disruptions worsen
JetBlue Airways will cut more than 1,280 flights from Thursday through mid-January in anticipation of more Covid-19 infections among pilots… Read More »
Jet Stream winds are causing issues for airlines on transcontinental flights
U.S. airlines are already understaffed because of COVID-19, and the weather isn’t helping matters. The jet stream winds have been… Read More »
New Norway-based airline Norse Atlantic will start flying 787s in spring 2022
Norse Atlantic Airways, a new Norway-based airline, has received an air operator’s certificate (AOC) from the Norwegian Civil Aviation Authority…. Read More »
Michigan teacher isolates in bathroom for 5 hours after testing positive for Covid mid-flight
A Michigan teacher’s trip to Iceland took a dramatic turn when she discovered that she was positive for COVID-19 midway… Read More »