A newly built Brightline passenger train awaits shipment from Siemens Mobility’s rail factory in Sacramento, California. Brightline, Siemens Mobility Siemens, which says it’s already the biggest...
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Passenger Arrested For Allegedly Trying To Stab Flight Attendant And Open Door On Boston-Bound Flight
Topline A 33-year-old man was arrested Sunday evening at Boston Logan International Airport after authorities said he tried to open an emergency exit door during a United Airlines flight from Los Ange...
Luxury Spirits Vie For Travel Retail Promo Spaces As Passenger Numbers Rebound
Glenfiddich’s Perpetual pop-up at Taoyuan T2 includes a hard-to-miss digital banner across the … [+] duty-free store. William rand & Sons Spirits brands are spending heavily on retail ...
Delta Fixes a Key Passenger Pain Point (and the Solution Is Free)
Every airline has its own identity. Which is to say, it has its set of values, and is devoted to messaging that will get consumers to associate it with a few key traits. Spirit Airlines is known for n...
Heathrow Airport says passenger demand won’t return for years
The biggest airport in Europe by passenger numbers, London’s Heathrow, is not expecting to come into profit this financial year. Anadolu Agency / Contributor / Getty Images Heathrow Airport repo...
China EV Leader BYD Enters India’s Passenger Car Market As Part Of Global Push
BYD is expanding beyond China. BYD BYD, one of the world’s largest EV makers, this week entered India’s passenger car market as part of larger push to more than double its distributor network in the w...
Heathrow Airport Will End Daily Passenger Limits After Flight Disruption-Filled Summer
Topline London’s Heathrow Airport will remove a cap on the number of daily departing passengers at its terminals at the end of the month, the airport said Monday, following a summer filled with flight...
Chinese EV giant BYD plans to build a passenger car factory in Thailand
Chinese electric car company BYD has expanded rapidly overseas, including announcements in recent months of plans to enter Thailand’s and Japan’s passenger car markets. Pictured here is a ...
eVTOLs Face Significant Challenges In Passenger Applications
Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing vehicles (eVTOLs) promise to transform short trips especially … [+] in bigger cities. But their future is far from certain. getty Electric vertical take of...
Boom supersonic passenger aircraft orders pick up as air travel looks to evolve
On August 16, American Airlines (NASDAQ: AAL) announced that they had signed an agreement to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture Aircraft, 20 units to be exact. After the news of the AAL purchase brok...
US$50 billion Russian-Chinese joint venture to build passenger jet at risk as cracks appear in partnership
The future of the largest aviation joint venture between China and Russia is looking bleak because of intensifying disagreements between the two over how they share the profits and the possible involv...
BYD Makes First Foray Into Japan Passenger Car Market With Three EV Models
BYD unveiled three EV models for the Japan market at a conference in Tokyo on Thursday. BYD China-headquartered BYD, the world’s largest maker of electric vehicles, held a press conference in Tokyo on...
One Of Europe’s Busiest Airports Tells Airlines To Stop Selling Summer Tickets Amid Travel Chaos
Topline London’s Heathrow Airport has told airlines to stop selling tickets this summer in order to keep passenger numbers at manageable levels, chief executive John Holland-Kaye announced on Tuesday,...
Middle East Airlines Take Off Again, As Profits And Passenger Numbers Soar
An Emirates aircraft takes off from Dubai International Airport on April 6, 2020 (Photo: KARIM SAHIB … [+] / AFP) (Photo by KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images The Middle East...
A Houston Hypersonic Transport Startup Promises Passenger Flights From L.A. To Tokyo In An Hour
An aeroplane flying high across a blue sky producing a striking contrail cloud behind it over … [+] Folkestone, United Kingdom. photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images) In Pictu...
FAA Chief Says ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy For Unruly Travelers Will Stay As Disorderly Passenger Incidents Hit Record High In 2021
Topline The Federal Aviation Administration’s “zero tolerance” policy for unruly passenger behavior is here to stay, agency chief Steve Dickson said Friday, amid efforts to stem cases of unruly travel...
Black box found from Boeing passenger jet that crashed in China: State media
Paramilitary police officers conduct a search at the site of a China Eastern Airlines plane crash in March 2022 in Tengxian county, Wuzhou city, in China’s southern Guangxi region. AFP | Getty I...
Boeing 737 passenger plane crashed in southern China
Boeing Co (NYSE: BA) stock is down nearly 5.0% on Monday after its 737-800 jet carrying 123 passengers and 9 crew members crashed in southern China. First serious passenger plane crash in China since ...
Hydrogen-powered train a step closer to passenger service in Germany
A model of Siemens Mobility’s Mireo Plus photographed in 2019. Nicolas Armer | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Plans to deploy a hydrogen-powered train in the southern German state of Bavaria to...
Billionaire Lucio Tan’s Philippine Airlines Plots ‘Comeback’ As Carrier Boosts Passenger, Cargo Flights
Lucio Tan arrives in Davao City, on the southern island of Mindanao, to meet Philippines’ … [+] president-elect Rodrigo Duterte. NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images Philippine Airlines—control...
EVs dominated Super Bowl ads, but only 9% of passenger car sales
Visitors wearing face masks check a China-made Tesla Model Y sport utility vehicle (SUV) at the electric vehicle maker’s showroom in Beijing, China January 5, 2021. Tingshu Wang | Reuters Six of...
American Airlines London-bound flight turns back to Miami after passenger refuses to wear mask
An American Airlines Boeing 777-200 aircraft Nicolas Economou | NurPhoto | Getty Images American Airlines said a flight to London returned to Miami late Wednesday because a passenger refused to comply...
American Airlines Flight U-Turns Over Atlantic After Passenger Refused To Wear Face Mask
Topline An American Airlines flight from Miami to London on Wednesday night turned around over the Atlantic ocean after a passenger reportedly refused to wear a face mask, the latest example of unusua...
American Airlines Delays Flight From Honduras After Passenger Breaches Cockpit And Damages Controls
Topline A passenger entered the cockpit of an American Airlines plane during boarding in Honduras on Tuesday, damaged the plane’s controls and tried to jump out an open window, the airline said — the ...