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ROUTES May 07, 2026 Emirates Delivered Its Most Profitable Year in History While the Iran War Was Shutting Down Its Own Airport Emirates has delivered the most remarkable set of airline financial results in recent memory, posting record pre-tax profits of $6.2 billion for the financial year ending March 31, 2026, even though the final month of that year included the most catastrophic disruption to Gulf aviation since the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More →
NEWS May 06, 2026 An FAA Mechanical Engineer Used His Government Computer to Research How to Kill the President A Federal Aviation Administration mechanical engineer from Nashua, New Hampshire, has been arrested and charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump after using his government-issued work computer to conduct a series of alarming internet searches. Read More →
NEWS May 05, 2026 Airbus Cannot Meet the US Government's Security Deadline for A220 Cockpit Barriers and JetBlue Is Now Asking for Another Year JetBlue Airways has formally petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration for a 12-month exemption from a federal mandate requiring anti-terror secondary cockpit barriers to be installed on its fleet of Airbus A220 aircraft. Read More →
ROUTES May 05, 2026 JetBlue Is Adding 11 New Routes From Fort Lauderdale and Targeting 130 Daily Departures After Spirit Airlines Collapsed JetBlue Airways has launched the most aggressive airport expansion in its 26-year history, announcing 11 entirely new nonstop routes from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport alongside significant frequency increases on existing services. Read More →
INFORMATIONAL May 04, 2026 AGC Chemicals: The Fluoropolymer Materials Keeping Aircraft Safe at 35,000 Feet AGC Chemicals is quietly powering modern aviation, from the wire insulation running through an aircraft's airframe to the seals protecting critical hydraulic systems. Learn how their industry-leading products are making aircraft safer, more durable, and more reliable at every altitude. Read More →
ROUTES May 01, 2026 Cabo Verde Airlines Is Flying to America Again for the First Time Since 2021 After nearly five years of absence from the United States market, Cabo Verde Airlines is reinstating transatlantic service to North America with the launch of a new nonstop route between the Cape Verde islands and Rhode Island. Read More →
ROUTES Apr 30, 2026 American Airlines Just Flew to Venezuela for the First Time in Seven Years Seven years of diplomatic rupture, political upheaval, a US government flight ban, and the eventual capture of a sitting head of state all came to an end at Gate D at Miami International Airport on Thursday morning. Read More →
ROUTES Apr 29, 2026 United Airlines Is Now Flying Nonstop to Four European Cities No Other US Carrier Reaches United Airlines has formally launched the most ambitious week of new route openings in its current summer expansion, kicking off nonstop services to four European destinations: Split, Croatia; Bari, Italy; Glasgow, Scotland; and Santiago de Compostela, Spain- that no other US network carrier serves directly. Read More →
ROUTES Apr 29, 2026 Air Canada Has Quietly Pulled the Plug on Its Montreal-Algiers Route Air Canada has cancelled its entire planned summer 2026 service between Montréal and Algiers, its longest nonstop route to Africa, in a decision directly driven by the doubling of jet fuel prices since the start of the US-Iran conflict in late February. Read More →
NEWS Apr 28, 2026 American Airlines is Banning Power Banks From Overhead Bins Starting This Weekend: What You Need to Know Effective May 1, 2026, American Airlines will become the largest carrier in the United States to formally revise its rules on portable power banks, the lithium-ion charging devices that tens of millions of travellers carry onto planes every day without a second thought. Read More →