NEWSJun 10, 2026Southwest Airlines Reopens Cockpit Jumpseat to Non-Crew Employees, Sparking Backlash From Flight AttendantsSouthwest Airlines reverses its flight attendant-only cockpit jumpseat policy, opening seats to all non-rev employees and angering cabin crew.Read More →
NEWSJun 09, 2026United Airlines Installs First Starlink Internet System on Boeing 777 Widebody FleetUnited Airlines completes its first Starlink Wi-Fi prototype installation on a Boeing 777, marking a major step in its fleetwide connectivity rollout.Read More →
INFORMATIONALJun 08, 2026Bombardier Global 8000 Breaks Montreal to Nice Speed Record, Debuts Elie Saab Cabin DesignBombardier's Global 8000 set a transatlantic speed record from Montreal to Nice and revealed a bespoke cabin designed with Elie Saab.Read More →
NEWSJun 03, 2026When Cabin Calm Breaks at 32,000 Feet: What the Frontier Incident Tells Us About Air Travel TodayA Frontier Airlines passenger tried to open an emergency exit mid-flight to Chicago. Here's what happened and what it means for travelers.Read More →
NEWSJun 02, 2026Delta Reconsiders Its Long-Awaited Transcontinental Business Class SeatDelta Air Lines may scrap plans for a new transcontinental business class seat, leaving its premium domestic strategy in question.Read More →
NEWSMay 20, 2026The World's Densest Superjumbo Just Got a Luxury Makeover and Emirates Has Transformed Its Most Packed A380 ForeverEmirates has quietly closed the chapter on one of commercial aviation's most striking oddities, a 615-seat configuration of the Airbus A380 that put sheer volume above almost everything else, and replaced it with the airline's most premium-heavy superjumbo yet. Read More →
NEWSMay 12, 2026United's 30,000 Flight Attendants Have Just Voted Themselves into the Highest-Paid Cabin Crew in AmericaUnited 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 →
NEWSApr 30, 2026British Airways Just Made It a Contractual Offence to Film Cabin Crew Without PermissionBritish Airways has quietly but consequentially updated the legal contract that every passenger enters when they buy a ticket with the airline, adding an explicit prohibition on photographing, filming, or live-streaming cabin crew without their express consent. Read More →
NEWSApr 27, 2026Toilet Water Flooded American Airlines Regional Jet From Front to Back at the GateA deeply unpleasant incident unfolded at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport when passengers aboard an American Airlines regional jet operated by PSA Airlines were forced off the aircraft after a lavatory malfunction caused toilet water to flow the full length of the cabin.Read More →
NEWSApr 23, 2026Lufthansa's Refitted A380 Just Landed in Los Angeles With New Business ClassAfter nearly twelve weeks on the ground in Dresden and two days of final preparations in Munich, Lufthansa's first retrofitted Airbus A380 superjumbo carried its first revenue passengers departing Munich Airport as flight LH452 bound for Los Angeles International Airport. Read More →
