A cargo airline whose plane ditched into the ocean off Hawaii has been grounded after investigators looked into the company's safety practices before the accident. The Federal Aviation Administration said that it will bar Rhoades Aviation of Honolulu from flying or doing maintenance inspections until it meets FAA regulations. The agency did not detail Rhoades' [...]
American Airlines is canceling extended leaves for about 3,300 flight attendants and telling them to come back to work in time for the holiday season. And American plans to hire 800 new flight attendants by next March, according to an airline executive. The moves are the latest indication that leisure travel in the U.S. is [...]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a directive to operators of all Boeing 737 series airplanes to conduct inspections to address possible failures of cabin altitude pressure switches. The directive requires operators to conduct repetitive tests of the switches and replace them if needed. The directive covers 2,502 U.S.-registered airplanes and 9,315 airplanes worldwide. It [...]
Lyft said it will return the option for passengers to book shared rides in select U.S. markets for the first time since the pandemic, when shared trips were scrapped to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus. Lyft said shared rides, which allow multiple passengers to split a car traveling in the same direction, would [...]
He said he spent $100,000 to build the app, which he pitched to Delta, Bloomberg reported. A Delta Air Lines pilot is suing the company for $1 billion, saying it stole the idea for an app he'd developed and pitched to it, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Craig Alexander filed the lawsuit against Delta in a Georgia court on [...]
Boeing said it will cut 787 production after finding another production-related structural defect, and a major customer partially canceled a 737 MAX order, in a double hit to the U.S. planemaker's COVID-19 pandemic recovery. Chicago-based Boeing now forecasts delivering fewer than half of the lingering 100 or so 787 Dreamliners in its inventory this year [...]
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] opened its Spacecraft Test, Assembly and Resource (STAR) Center today. The STAR Center features business and digital transformation innovations that will expand manufacturing, assembly and testing capacity for NASA's Orion spacecraft program and ultimately, future space exploration. Lockheed Martin currently assembles the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I and II Moon missions at the nearby Neil Armstrong [...]
United Airlines’ venture capital fund, United Airlines Ventures (UAV) has announced that it has invested in Heart Aerospace, an electric aircraft startup developing the ES-19, a 19-seat electric aircraft that has the potential to fly customers up to 250 miles. In addition to UAV’s investment, United Airlines has conditionally agreed to purchase 100 ES-19s, once [...]
Delta Air Lines DAL 2.34% said U.S. vacation travel has fully recovered as the airline reported its first quarterly profit since the Covid-19 pandemic crushed the industry last year. Delta on Wednesday reported a second-quarter profit of $652 million, breaking a five-quarter streak of losses, boosted by rising travel demand and a fresh round of government aid to cover [...]
Momentus named former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood as chief executive officer, a day after the U.S. markets regulator charged the space exploration firm with misleading claims over a planned merger. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday said Momentus along with blank-check company Stable Road Acquisition Corp and its [...]
Electric air taxi startup Joby Aviation, JetBlue Airways Corp and Signature Flight Support are teaming up to develop aviation carbon credits for using electric and hydrogen propulsion technologies, the companies said on Tuesday. The move, which aligns with the U.S. aviation industry's goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, includes the companies deciding on [...]
As a local resident of the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada, I am privileged to experience the wonderful options this region has to offer at every time of year; today, however, I am going to focus on Autumn; or Fall as most residents will refer to this season. While there are benefits to visiting Niagara [...]
