NEWSJul 27, 2026SWISS A330 Bound for New York Diverts to Bangor After Smoke Fills Business Class CabinA SWISS Airbus A330 flying from Zurich to New York made an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine, after smoke filled the business class cabin.Read More →
NEWSJun 26, 2026Power Bank Fires on UK Flights Nearly Double in a Year, Aviation Regulators WarnBritish aviation regulators report power bank overheating incidents on planes have nearly doubled in one year, raising urgent safety concerns for travelers.Read More →
NEWSJun 12, 2026SAS Pilot Banned From French Airspace After Random Drug Test Flags Presence of CocaineA Scandinavian Airlines pilot received a flight ban in France and a suspended sentence after testing positive for cocaine before a scheduled flight from Nice.Read More →
ROUTESMay 29, 2026Avianca vs. jetBlue: The Battle for Spirit's Florida ThroneAs Spirit Airlines exits bankruptcy weaker than before, Avianca and jetBlue are positioning to claim its lucrative Florida-Latin America routes.Read More →
NEWSMay 20, 2026Air France Flight Turned Away From U.S. Airspace and Diverted to Canada Over Suspected Ebola-Linked PassengerAn Air France Boeing 777-200 operating a scheduled service from Paris to Detroit has been denied entry to U.S. airspace and forced to divert to Montreal, in what is emerging as a direct consequence of sweeping new American travel restrictions linked to a deadly Ebola outbreak in Central and East Africa.Read More →
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 →
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 08, 2026Why 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 →
NEWSMar 16, 2026Global Carriers Face Sudden Ban at Dubai International AirportDubai’s status as the world’s preeminent aviation crossroads faced a seismic shift today as the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) took the unprecedented step of barring all foreign carriers from the city’s airspace.Read More →
