NEWSMay 02, 2026Spirit Airlines Ceases Operations, Becoming First Major U.S. Airline Casualty in Two DecadesSpirit 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 →
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 →
ROUTESApr 29, 2026United Airlines Is Now Flying Nonstop to Four European Cities No Other US Carrier ReachesUnited 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 →
ROUTESApr 28, 2026Alaska Airlines Just Flew to Europe for the First Time in Its 93-Year HistoryAt 5:30 PM Pacific time on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, Alaska Airlines Flight AS180 lifted off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport bound for Leonardo da Vinci Rome Fiumicino Airport, and 93 years of Pacific-only aviation history came to an end. Read More →
NEWSApr 28, 2026American Airlines is Banning Power Banks From Overhead Bins Starting This Weekend: What You Need to KnowEffective 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 →
NEWSApr 27, 2026Joby 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 DaysNew 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 →
ROUTESApr 22, 2026Flair Airlines Gets Cuba Approval amid Ongoing Fuel CrisisCanada's budget aviation sector took a notable step forward on April 8, 2026, when the Canadian Transportation Agency formally authorised Flair Airlines to operate scheduled international flights to Cuba.Read More →
ROUTESApr 21, 2026Emirates Is Operating Flights So Long They Last Almost a Full DayDubai sits almost exactly at the centre of a map stretching from New Zealand to Mexico, and Emirates has built its entire commercial philosophy around that geographical reality. Read More →
INFORMATIONALApr 16, 2026TowFLEXX Towbarless Aircraft Tug: Smarter Towing, Safer Turns, Stronger ROI in Modern Ground HandlingDiscover how TowFLEXX towbarless aircraft tugs improve hangar capacity, reduce operating costs, and enhance safety, helping FBOs, MROs, and flight departments maximize ground handling efficiency.Read More →
ROUTESApr 09, 2026How Flybondi Is Using Wet-Leased Boeing 737s to Rebuild Argentina's Low-Cost Aviation SceneArgentina's ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC) Flybondi is on a mission of recovery and reinvention. Read More →
