NEWSMay 08, 2026Saudi Arabia's New Airline Just Applied to Fly to AmericaRiyadh 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 →
NEWSMay 06, 2026An FAA Mechanical Engineer Used His Government Computer to Research How to Kill the PresidentA Federal Aviation Administration mechanical engineer from Nashua, New Hampshire, has been arrested and charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump after using his government-issued work computer to conduct a series of alarming internet searches.Read More →
ROUTESMay 01, 2026Cabo Verde Airlines Is Flying to America Again for the First Time Since 2021After 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 →
ROUTESApr 30, 2026American Airlines Just Flew to Venezuela for the First Time in Seven YearsSeven 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 →
NEWSApr 24, 2026ICE Boarded a Man on the Wrong Flight to Alaska and Ignored the Crew Who Tried to Stop ThemA deeply troubling incident from May 2025 has only now come to light following a detailed investigation by The Seattle Times, one that reveals how federal immigration officers boarded a deportee onto entirely the wrong Alaska Airlines flight at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, ignored repeated warnings from flight attendants, and then compounded the error by re-detaining the man for a further 16 days after an airline captain used his own money to help him. Read More →
ROUTESApr 24, 2026PHOTOS: Air Premia Inaugurates Service to Washington-DullesSouth Korea's Air Premia celebrated one of the most significant moments in its young history on Thursday, April 24, 2026, operating the first scheduled flight between Seoul's Incheon International Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport.Read More →
NEWSApr 22, 2026The US Is Building an AI Brain for Its Skies, and the Man in Charge Says Controllers Have Nothing to FearThe United States federal government has placed artificial intelligence at the heart of its most ambitious aviation modernisation programme in a generation, and the official leading that effort has used his most unambiguous language yet to silence fears that AI will one day make air traffic controllers obsolete. Read More →
NEWSApr 13, 2026Federal Watchdog Warns America's Air Traffic Control Systems Are Wide Open to CyberattackA damning federal audit has exposed deep cybersecurity failings at the heart of America's aviation infrastructure, revealing that the Federal Aviation Administration has left dozens of its most safety-critical systems dangerously under-protected, raising the prospect of a catastrophic cyberattack on the nation's skies.Read More →
NEWSApr 10, 2026Why the US Government Is Recruiting Video Gamers to Keep Your Flight SafeThe United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has launched its most unconventional recruitment drive yet, targeting video gamers to fill a chronic and increasingly dangerous shortage of air traffic controllers. Read More →
NEWSApr 08, 2026The US Airports That Could Lose All International Flights Over Immigration PoliticsA political standoff between the Trump administration and major American cities has thrust some of the world's most important aviation hubs into an unprecedented state of uncertainty.Read More →
