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NEWS Jun 01, 2026 Sunwing Fires Pilot After Fried Chicken and Watermelon Order Reaches Black Supervisor A Sunwing pilot lost his job after sending a food order featuring fried chicken and watermelon to a Black supervisor. Here's what happened. Read More →
INFORMATIONAL Jun 01, 2026 The Hidden Technology Behind Autonomous Landings How do you ensure reliable navigation in environments where you can't see? The answer, increasingly, is that you do not rely on a single sensor. In fact, you fuse several, with each one complementing the other's strengths and weaknesses. Read More →
ROUTES May 29, 2026 Avianca vs. jetBlue: The Battle for Spirit's Florida Throne As Spirit Airlines exits bankruptcy weaker than before, Avianca and jetBlue are positioning to claim its lucrative Florida-Latin America routes. Read More →
ROUTES May 29, 2026 JetBlue Plans New Fort Lauderdale to Caracas Route: What Travelers Should Know JetBlue plans to launch service between Fort Lauderdale and Caracas, pending government approvals. Here's what travelers need to know about the new route. Read More →
NEWS May 21, 2026 Avelo Airlines Has Quietly Wiped an Entire Day Off Its Flying Schedule and the Reason Goes Far Beyond Tuesday A small but telling decision by Avelo Airlines has caught the attention of the US aviation industry this week. The ultra-low-cost carrier has effectively eliminated all Tuesday flights from its network for 13 weeks running from mid-May through mid-August 2026. Read More →
NEWS May 21, 2026 After 17 Years and Two Trials, a Paris Court Has Finally Found Airbus and Air France Guilty of Killing 228 People Over the Atlantic A Paris appeals court has today delivered one of the most consequential verdicts in the history of commercial aviation, finding both Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter over the June 2009 crash of Air France Flight AF447; a disaster that killed all 228 people on board and remains the worst aviation accident in French history. Read More →
NEWS May 12, 2026 United's 30,000 Flight Attendants Have Just Voted Themselves into the Highest-Paid Cabin Crew in America United Airlines flight attendants voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new five-year contract on May 12, 2026, ending nearly six years without a pay raise and making United the last of the major US carriers to reach a post-pandemic labour settlement with its cabin crew. Read More →
NEWS May 12, 2026 A Southwest 737's Cockpit Windscreen Shattered at Cruising Altitude Over Oklahoma A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 made an emergency diversion to Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Monday, May 12, 2026, after its cockpit windscreen began to crack and then shatter while cruising over the state. Read More →
NEWS May 07, 2026 Delta Is Facing a $5 Million Lawsuit for Allegedly Steering Passengers Away From Cash Refunds They Had Already Paid For A class action lawsuit filed in a New York district court on May 1, 2026 has placed Delta Air Lines at the centre of one of the most pointed consumer protection challenges in recent US aviation history, accusing the Atlanta-based carrier of deliberately designing its cancellation website to push passengers who purchased fully refundable tickets toward an inferior, expiring electronic credit rather than the cash refund they contractually paid a premium to receive. Read More →
ROUTES May 07, 2026 Breeze Airways Has Quietly Dropped 9 Routes but on Its Fifth Birthday It Is Adding Even More Five years after its first passenger flight departed in May 2021, Breeze Airways is undergoing its most significant network restructuring to date, withdrawing from nine routes. Read More →