Tag: Jet
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 →
NEWS Apr 24, 2026 A Single Social Media Reply About Cookies and Cache Has Landed JetBlue in Federal Court What began as a customer complaint about a $230 airfare increase on the social media platform X has escalated rapidly into a federal class action lawsuit, congressional scrutiny, and a nationwide conversation about one of the most contentious emerging practices in consumer commerce, surveillance pricing. Read More →
NEWS Apr 23, 2026 United Airlines Just Warned Summer Fares Could Rise 20% United Airlines CEO delivered one of the starkest and most direct warnings in the carrier's recent history, telling analysts and the travelling public that ticket prices for summer travel may need to rise by as much as 20% to cover a fuel bill that has more than doubled since the start of the Iran war. Read More →
NEWS Apr 22, 2026 Amazon Has Built a Satellite Antenna for Airplanes That Competes With Starlink's In-Flight Wi-Fi Amazon has drawn the clearest battle line yet in the race to dominate satellite connectivity aboard commercial aircraft. Read More →
ROUTES Apr 17, 2026 Air Canada Is Pulling All JFK Flights This Summer and Blaming a War-Fuelled Price Shock Canada's flag carrier has become the latest airline to make a significant network retreat under the weight of a global jet fuel crisis rooted in the Middle East conflict. Read More →
NEWS Apr 16, 2026 KLM Cuts 160 European Flights as the Fuel Crisis Gripping Aviation Deepens Royal Dutch Airlines has moved swiftly to confront one of the most severe cost pressures in recent European aviation history, confirming on Thursday the cancellation of 160 flights to and from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport within the coming month. Read More →
NEWS Apr 15, 2026 Gulfstream Pilot Ignores ATC Instruction, Nearly Downs Paris-Bound 777 at LAX A Gulfstream G650ER business jet crossed onto an active runway at Los Angeles International Airport against a clear air traffic control instruction, forcing the crew of a fully loaded Air France Boeing 777-300ER to execute a high-speed rejected takeoff. Read More →
ROUTES Apr 13, 2026 United Airlines Cuts 737 MAX 8 International Flights by 16% While Quietly Opening New European Frontiers United Airlines is trimming its Boeing 737 MAX 8 international operations by a significant margin this summer, even as it simultaneously uses the same narrowbody jet to push into European destinations it has never before served, or has not served in years. Read More →
NEWS Apr 07, 2026 HondaJet Safety Report Reveals High Winds Led to Runway Excursion Federal investigators have concluded that a flight crew’s decision to land a HondaJet HA-420 in conditions exceeding its design limitations was the primary cause of a substantial damage-inducing runway excursion. Read More →
NEWS Apr 01, 2026 JetBlue Paints A220 in Blueprint Livery JetBlue has introduced "Blueprint II," a sophisticated reimagining of its iconic "mechanical X-ray" livery tailored for the A220. Read More →