In a few years, Airliners like Airbus’ A330-900 may fly with in-flight broadband internet made … [+] possible by top-fuselage mounted AESA antennas from CesiumAstro. (Photo by Nicolas Econ...
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Riyadh Sets Out Fleet Plans For New Airline To Rival Emirates And Qatar
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Boeing Saudi Arabia has set out its initial fleet plans for the country’s newest airline, Riyadh Air, which promise to make it the one of the largest carriers in the Middle East....
BA Stock: Boeing Eyes $35 Billion Jet Deal For New Saudi Airline
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is nearing a multi-billion-dollar deal for Boeing (BA) commercial jets for the fleet of a brand-new national airline, the Wall Street Journal reported on Su...
Biden administration urges Congress to ban airline family-seating fees
Passengers wearing protective masks are seen aboard before a JetBlue flight to London at JFK International Airport in the Queens borough of New York City, August 11, 2021. Jeenah Moon | Reuters The Bi...
JetBlue CEO Says Feds Will Sue Airline Over Its $3.8 Billion Merger With Spirit This Week
Topline The U.S. federal government is poised to block JetBlue’s $3.8 billion merger with Spirit Airlines, according to several reports Monday, sending both companies’ stocks swinging and preventing w...
The Real Reason For Airline Delays—And The Simple Change That Could Fix Everything
The horrific flight delays over the Christmas holidays, January’s crash of the FAA’s air traffic control system, which temporarily grounded all U.S. flights, and other hair-raising incidents all under...
Spirit Airlines(SAVE), Value Airline of the Year: Will it fly?
The ultra-low fare airlines were recognized by ATW 2023 as Value Airline of the Year. Spirit Airlines shares a 3.4% market share in United States aviation. Founded in 1964 and headquartered in Miram...
Lufthansa—One Of Europe’s Biggest Airlines—Suffers Tech Outage Causing Flight Delays, Cancellations
Topline German flag carrier Lufthansa suffered a major computer outage on Wednesday, the company announced, triggering a global wave of travel disruption as flights are delayed and canceled while the ...
Boeing And Airbus’ Record Air India Order Hinges On High-Stakes Turnaround Of A Basket-Case Airline
Air India planes are parked at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Aug. 30, 2021. Manish Swarup/AP For the last few decades, India’s rapidly growing economy and population have lured m...
Binance Collaborates with Kazakhstan’s largest Airline Air Astana
Binance and Air Astana have announced a partnership. The collaboration allows airline customers to convert their flight reward points into Binance USD (BUSD). This partnership will also help customers...
Binance Partners with Kazakhstan’s Biggest Airline – Air Astana
Binance, the largest crypto exchange in the world, announced a partnership with Air Astana – Kazakhstan’s largest airline. The partnership will allow the airline’s customers to convert their flight re...
Senators push for Airline Passengers Bill of Rights
Passengers walk past a flight status board in Terminal C at Orlando International Airport that shows many delays, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, after the FAA grounded all U.S. flights earlier in the day. ...
Meltdowns In The Airline Industry And How To Fix Them
getty Key takeaways The Federal Aviation Administration had to suspend flights on the morning of January 11 due to issues with the system that notified pilots of possible dangers in the air and on the...
United Airlines Isn’t The Best Airline In The History Of The World
United is a good airline — but are they the best airline is the history of aviation? getty United Airlines’ CEO Scott Kirby recently claimed that United was the “best airline in the history of aviatio...
Airline Stocks — Are They A Buy Right Now, Or Are They Grounded?
Early January’s run-up in airline stocks signaled the industry might just be recovering from the Covid pandemic. Earnings reports suggested airlines are getting back to pre-pandemic levels, with...
Spanish Airline Vueling to Accept Cryptocurrency as Means of Payment – Blockchain Bitcoin News
Vueling, a low-cost Spanish airline, has announced it is exploring the functionality of blockchain and NFT (non-fungible token) technology to accept cryptocurrency as a means of payment for its servic...
Southwest Crisis Reveals Clubby World of Airline Leaders
(Bloomberg) — The operational chaos that engulfed Southwest Airlines Co. over the busy holiday period was a crisis decades in the making. Most Read from Bloomberg In the aftermath of a meltdown ...
Airline perks and elite status will be harder to earn this year
The new Delta SkyClub at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Terminals 2 and 3 where the reimagined state-of-the-art facilities will soon welcome millions of guests each year. Media News Group | ...
Southwest’s Holiday Meltdown And The Myth That It’s A Point-To-Point Airline
They connect passengers, too. getty In the media coverage of Southwest Airline’s holiday disaster, there have been all sorts of prognostications regarding the reasons for the meltdown which stranded a...
Southwest Faces Class Action Suit Over Holiday Meltdown — Here’s What Stranded Passengers Can Expect As Airline Deals With Fallout
Topline Southwest Airlines is facing a class action lawsuit from a passenger who claims the carrier did not refund his tickets for canceled flights during the company’s operational meltdown last month...
Airline Seats Are Not Shrinking. Just The Opposite. But Legroom…
There has been a lot of coverage regarding declining airline customer service. Not much is positive. There are issues of refund problems, of flight delays, cancellations, long waits for telephone assi...
Every Single Airline Stock Fell In 2022, But Let’s Look Forward
Travelers wait to go through security at San Francisco International Airport on December 22. Photo … [+] by David Paul Morris. © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP U.S. airline executives may be brimming...
Buttigieg Says Airline Is Facing ‘System Failure’ As Thousands Of Flights Are Canceled
Topline Southwest Airlines canceled just over 2,500 additional flights on Wednesday, a day after CEO Bob Jordan apologized to travelers for the thousands of cancellations that began last weekend, a si...
China Will End Quarantine For International Arrivals Starting Jan. 8
Mandatory Covid tests and quarantine have been a fixture for international arrivals in China during … [+] the pandemic. (Photo by Yin Liqin/China News Service via Getty Images) China News Servic...
Cessna’s SkyCourier Landed Its First Airline Customer Just Seven Months After FedEx Took Delivery
Cessna’s SkyCourier has been quick out of the gate in the passenger market as well as the freighter … [+] market. Textron Aviation The news that a startup regional carrier in Mexico has be...
Airline Uses Scraps To Make Wheelchairs For Charity, More Flat-Bed Seats And New Routes For 2023
AIRPORT NARITA, TOKYO, JAPAN – 2017/05/04: SriLankan Airlines Airbus 330-300 landing at Tokyo Narita … [+] airport. (Photo by Fabrizio Gandolfo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Li...
How electric air taxis could shake up the airline industry
A VoloCity air taxi by Volocopter is pictured at Pontoise airfield in Cormeilles-en-Vexin, near Paris, France, November 10, 2022. Benoit Tessier | Reuters A world with flying vehicles, like the 1960s...
How The Last Three Years Has Structurally Changed Airline Travel
This is an extreme example of blending work and leisure travel! getty Sometimes change comes slowly, and sometimes it arrives more quickly. The way that people travel by air has been relatively consta...