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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 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 →
NEWS May 05, 2026 A British Airways 787 Worth $355 Million Was Stabbed by Its Own Engineering Steps at Heathrow While Passengers Watched From Buses A British Airways Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner has been grounded at London Heathrow Airport following a ground handling incident that is as costly as it is avoidable, an engineering mishap driven by one of the most fundamental properties of a fully loaded commercial 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
ROUTES Apr 21, 2026 Emirates Is Operating Flights So Long They Last Almost a Full Day Dubai 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 →
NEWS Apr 08, 2026 Why Southwest Airlines Is Now Letting You Bring Only One Portable Charger on Your Flight? Southwest Airlines has drawn a firm line in the sky over portable chargers. The Dallas-based carrier announced it will limit passengers to one lithium portable charger on flights and ban them from being stowed in overhead bins. Read More →