Tag: Flight
NEWS May 20, 2026 Air France Flight Turned Away From U.S. Airspace and Diverted to Canada Over Suspected Ebola-Linked Passenger An Air France Boeing 777-200 operating a scheduled service from Paris to Detroit has been denied entry to U.S. airspace and forced to divert to Montreal, in what is emerging as a direct consequence of sweeping new American travel restrictions linked to a deadly Ebola outbreak in Central and East Africa. Read More →
NEWS May 20, 2026 A Sinkhole Has Swallowed Part of a LaGuardia Runway Just Days Before Memorial Day, and Hundreds of Flights Are Already Cancelled A sinkhole discovered during a routine airfield inspection at New York's LaGuardia Airport has forced the closure of one of the airport's only two runways, triggering a cascade of cancellations and delays on one of the worst possible days for travel disruption. Read More →
STORIES May 20, 2026 The Support System Aviation Training Has Always Been Missing Aero Pathways pairs aviation students with working industry mentors to prevent dropouts, improve graduation rates, and fill the support gap that flight schools and aviation programs can't structurally solve on their own. Read More →
NEWS May 19, 2026 Three of Europe's Biggest Airlines Have Extended Their Middle East Suspensions, and the Restart Dates Are Further Away Than Many Passengers Hoped Three of Europe's largest airline groups have simultaneously extended their Middle East flight suspensions, with British Airways pushing its restart further into summer, the Lufthansa Group holding off a return to Dubai until mid-September, and Air France emerging as the most optimistic of the three with planned resumptions beginning as early as late May. Read More →
NEWS May 19, 2026 United Airlines Flew Passengers Across the Pacific for 13 Hours With No Screens, No Wi-Fi and No Way to Charge Their Devices A routine transpacific journey turned into an uncomfortable test of endurance for passengers aboard United Airlines flight UA-804 after a technical fault rendered the entire cabin entertainment infrastructure inoperable for the full duration of the flight. 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 →
ROUTES May 06, 2026 Air India Is Cancelling Hundreds of Long-Haul Flights to London, New York and Sydney Air India has confirmed a sustained and significant reduction in its international flight operations stretching through the end of July 2026, following an internal message from outgoing Chief Executive and Managing Director Campbell Wilson. Read More →
NEWS May 01, 2026 Southwest Nearly Abandoned 10 Passengers at Las Vegas Including a Pregnant Woman After Its Own Flight Made Them Miss Their Connection Southwest Airlines faced criticism after a Reddit post revealed that around ten passengers, including elderly travellers and a pregnant woman, were nearly stranded at Las Vegas airport because a Southwest delay caused them to almost miss their connecting flight. Read More →
NEWS Apr 30, 2026 British Airways Just Made It a Contractual Offence to Film Cabin Crew Without Permission British 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 →
NEWS Apr 30, 2026 A Delta Passenger Snapped During a Weather Delay in Atlanta and Now Faces Up to 20 Years in Federal Prison What began as a frustrating but routine weather delay at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on the evening of April 27, 2026, ended with a passenger in federal custody, a planeload of 168 travellers stranded for more than five hours on the tarmac. Read More →