Tag: Operations
INFORMATIONAL Jun 05, 2026 Business Aviation Activity Climbs in May, Yet Argus Data Signals Cooling Momentum Argus TraqPak reports North American business aviation flights rose in May 2025, but year-over-year growth has slowed across all operational categories. Read More →
NEWS Jun 04, 2026 American Airlines Suspends Select Summer Routes Citing Elevated Jet Fuel Costs American Airlines temporarily halts several summer routes as jet fuel prices climb, citing operational costs tied to ongoing global energy market pressures. Read More →
ROUTES Jun 01, 2026 Italy Considers Long-Haul Business-Class-Only Flights Between New York and Milan Linate Italy weighs allowing intercontinental business-class-only service from Linate to New York, opening the slot-restricted Milan airport to transatlantic routes. Read More →
NEWS Jun 01, 2026 Boeing 787 Dreamliner Loses Door at Remote Pacific Airport, Puzzling Engineers A Boeing 787 Dreamliner had a door detach at a remote Pacific airport, leaving engineers searching for answers about the cause. Read More →
NEWS May 19, 2026 United Airlines Flew Passengers Across the Pacific for 13 Hours With No Screens, No Wi-Fi and No Way to Charge Their Devices A routine transpacific journey turned into an uncomfortable test of endurance for passengers aboard United Airlines flight UA-804 after a technical fault rendered the entire cabin entertainment infrastructure inoperable for the full duration of the flight. Read More →
NEWS May 01, 2026 Southwest Nearly Abandoned 10 Passengers at Las Vegas Including a Pregnant Woman After Its Own Flight Made Them Miss Their Connection Southwest Airlines faced criticism after a Reddit post revealed that around ten passengers, including elderly travellers and a pregnant woman, were nearly stranded at Las Vegas airport because a Southwest delay caused them to almost miss their connecting flight. Read More →
NEWS Apr 21, 2026 American Airlines Took Nearly Two Months to Fix Its London Catering Disaster After nearly two months of operational chaos, reputational damage, crew revolts, and formal union grievances, American Airlines has finally resolved the catering meltdown that paralysed its London Heathrow operation from late February 2026. Read More →
INFORMATIONAL Apr 16, 2026 Opinion: Adapting Ground Operations in an Era of AI Under the theme “Adapting Ground Operations in an Era of AI,” IGHC 2026 will bring together airlines, ground handlers, airports, regulators, and vendors to focus on practical solutions. This is about how AI, data, various digital tools, and automation can be applied today to improve safety performance, increase operational resilience, and reduce complexity while ensuring that human expertise remains at the center of our operations. Read More →
NEWS Mar 04, 2026 United Airlines Evacuates Crew Stranded in Middle East Conflict, Some Driven Across Saudi Desert United Airlines has successfully concluded a high-stakes extraction operation to repatriate the final members of its flight crews who were caught in the crossfire of the rapidly escalating conflict in the Middle East. Read More →
INFORMATIONAL Dec 23, 2025 GTF Storage Crisis Deepens: 835 Aircraft Grounded as Pratt & Whitney Recalls Surge Post-Mid-Year The operational crisis surrounding the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan (GTF) engine family has reached a new peak. As of late Q4 2025, the number of stored jets powered by the PW1000G family has climbed significantly, highlighting a widening gap between maintenance capacity and the relentless pace of engine recalls. Read More →