Articles by Kalum Shashi Ishara

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 22, 2026 Flair Airlines Gets Cuba Approval amid Ongoing Fuel Crisis Canada's budget aviation sector took a notable step forward on April 8, 2026, when the Canadian Transportation Agency formally authorised Flair Airlines to operate scheduled international flights to Cuba. Read More →

NEWS Apr 22, 2026 The US Is Building an AI Brain for Its Skies, and the Man in Charge Says Controllers Have Nothing to Fear The 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 →

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 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 →

NEWS Apr 21, 2026 A Cockpit Display Fell and Knocked Out a Southwest Pilot Mid-Takeoff A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 was forced to declare an emergency and return to Las Vegas after the captain was struck on the head by a detached Head-Up Display unit during the takeoff roll. Read More →

ROUTES Apr 20, 2026 British Airways Has Just Put St. Louis and Guernsey on the Map Two inaugural British Airways flights departed London Heathrow, opening routes that could not be more different in character yet are equally well-timed: a long-haul transatlantic service to St. Louis, Missouri, and a year-round short-haul link to Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Read More →

NEWS Apr 20, 2026 Two Southwest Boeing Jets Nearly Collided Over Nashville and the Blame Points Squarely at an Air Traffic Control Error A serious aviation safety incident unfolded in the skies just north of Nashville International Airport when two Southwest Airlines jets came perilously close to colliding in mid-air. Read More →

NEWS Apr 20, 2026 Frontier Is Taking American Airlines Back to Court Over a Second Tarmac Collision and The Bill Is $670,000 Frontier Airlines has filed a second federal lawsuit against American Airlines, this time targeting a ground collision at Boston Logan International Airport. 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 →