Ethiopian Airlines plans to resume Boeing 737 MAX flights in February 2022
Ethiopian Airlines plans to resume flying Boeing 737 MAX planes on its fleet in February 2022, saying it was satisfied… Read More »
Cathay Pacific suffers pilot exodus amid Hong Kong’s ‘permanent quarantine’
Cathay has been operating with passenger capacity at 93% below pre-pandemic levels as a result of Hong Kong’s zero-Covid-19 policy… Read More »
Omicron hits airline crews and sparks hundreds of holiday flight cancellations
Airlines have canceled more than 2,000 flights since Christmas Eve as the rapid spread of the omicron variant of Covid-19… Read More »
Washington DC becomes next city to invoke indoor vaccine, testing mandates
This past week, the government of Washington D.C. announced that it’s hopping on the bandwagon with other major metropolitan tourism… Read More »
Heroic TSA Agent Saves the Life of a Choking Infant
A Transportation Security Administration agent – on the job for just two months but backed with 10 years’ experience as… Read More »
Global Flight Cancellations Rise to More Than 6,000 in Disastrous Christmas Holiday
Several hundred more flights have already been canceled so far this morning, Sunday, December 26, as Christmas weekend has turned… Read More »
The Craziest Things TSA Seized in 2021
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers had their hands full in 2021 as travelers returned to the nation’s airports in droves… Read More »
The Naughtiest Airline Passengers of 2021
The Year’s Worst Travelers The past year saw air travel return to pre-pandemic levels but with it, there was an… Read More »
U.S. airlines cancel holiday flights due to omicron impacts on crews
The transportation industry has been bracing for pre-pandemic-level crowds this holiday season, but now two major U.S. airlines have been… Read More »
Career flight attendant has seen the wildest in-flight bad behavior including urination, strip teases and more
With the holiday season upon us, airline employees are prepared to accommodate record travel numbers as many people brave the… Read More »
NASA’s silent Supersonic X-59 Jet was spotted on its way to Texas
NASA’s Silent Supersonic Jet X-59 is designed to transform the supersonic aircraft industry. Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works-built QueSST is anticipating… Read More »
Biden administration to lift travel restrictions on 8 African nations
The Biden administration will lift the travel restrictions it had imposed on eight African nations to curb the spread of… Read More »
Airlines Forced to Delay or Cancel 4,000 Christmas Flights Worldwide
What the airlines were able to avoid over the Thanksgiving holiday is coming back to bite them – hard –… Read More »
Top Hotels and Resorts Opening in 2022
Big Openings in 2022 It’s the time of year when we’re all ready to put the past behind us and… Read More »
Congress Wants Airlines to Have Self-Defense Training for Crew
Two key members of Congress have sent letters to the four major domestic airlines, telling them to consider backing self-defense… Read More »
Airline, Aerospace Groups Will Work with Telecom Companies to Solve 5G Dispute
Trade groups representing the airline and aerospace industries say they will work together with telecommunications companies such as AT&T and… Read More »
Cruise Ships Suddenly Seeing Breakthrough COVID-19 Cases
With the highly-transmissible and possibly vaccine-resistant Omicron variant fueling a new wave of COVID-19 across the nation, infections are beginning… Read More »
Air India paid $5.8mn “avoidable penalty” to Boeing – report
Air India (AI, Mumbai Int’l) made the “avoidable payment of a penalty” of INR438.5 million rupees (USD5.83 million) to Boeing… Read More »
Iceland’s PLAY to debut US routes in early 2Q22
PLAY (OG, Reykjavik Keflavik) has announced plans to start hub operations at Reykjavik Keflavik with the start of flights to… Read More »
South Africa’s Comair returns only 737 MAX
Comair (South Africa) (MN, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) has withdrawn its only B737-8 after having been in storage since the type’s… Read More »
Alitalia begins handling, MRO unit tenders
Now in the process of being wound down after being succeeded by ITA Airways (AZ, Rome Fiumicino) in October, Alitalia… Read More »
Australia’s Jetstar resumes international, NZ domestic ops
Jetstar Airways (JQ, Melbourne Tullamarine) resumed scheduled international flights on December 15, 2021, more than 600 days after they were… Read More »