Tag: airport
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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
NEWS Apr 29, 2026 Japan Airlines Is Sending Humanoid Robots Onto the Tarmac at Haneda Japan Airlines has announced one of the most consequential aviation technology experiments of 2026: a multi-year trial deploying humanoid robots in live ground handling operations at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, the nation's busiest, in a partnership with GMO AI & Robotics Trading Co., Ltd. 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 27, 2026 Joby Aviation Just Flew an Electric Air Taxi from JFK to Manhattan in Under 10 Minutes and It Plans to Do It Again for the Next 10 Days New York City witnessed a genuine landmark in urban aviation when Joby Aviation became the first company to fly an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, an eVTOL, on a point-to-point route between John F. Kennedy International Airport and Manhattan. Read More →
NEWS Apr 27, 2026 Emirates Activates Starlink Satellite Internet on the Landmark A380 Superjumbo Emirates has achieved a world first in commercial aviation by completing the installation of SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet system aboard an Airbus A380 superjumbo, making it the first airline to operate the technology on the iconic double-decker aircraft. Read More →
NEWS Apr 27, 2026 Toilet Water Flooded American Airlines Regional Jet From Front to Back at the Gate A 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 →