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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 08, 2026 Saudi Arabia's New Airline Just Applied to Fly to America Riyadh Air, Saudi Arabia's second flag carrier and one of the most closely watched aviation startups in recent memory, filed a formal application with the United States Department of Transportation on May 5, 2026, seeking a foreign air carrier permit and exemption authority to operate scheduled and charter services between the Kingdom and the United States. Read More →
NEWS May 08, 2026 Two Southwest Jets Clipped Each Other at the Gate in Baltimore Where ATC Has No Eyes Two Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft collided during pushback at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
NEWS May 04, 2026 A United Airlines 767 Flying From Venice Hit a Bakery Truck and a Light Pole on the New Jersey Turnpike Before Landing at Newark One of the most extraordinary and alarming aviation incidents in recent American history unfolded when a United Airlines Boeing 767-400ER on final approach to Newark Liberty International Airport flew so low over the New Jersey Turnpike that its landing gear and underside made physical contact with a highway light pole and the cab of a bakery delivery truck travelling below. Read More →
NEWS May 02, 2026 Spirit Airlines Ceases Operations, Becoming First Major U.S. Airline Casualty in Two Decades Spirit Airlines, one of the United States' pioneering ultra-low-cost carriers, ceased all operations on May 2, 2026, after a $500 million federal bailout effort collapsed. The shutdown, the first of a major U.S. carrier in roughly two decades, leaves 17,000 employees out of work and strands hundreds of thousands of ticketed passengers seeking alternative travel arrangements. Read More →