required reading for frequent flyers
French cabin crew at low-cost long-haul airline Norwegian are being urged to join a three-day strike set to take place between 24th and 26th April. The cabin crew,... Read More
Flight attendants at three regional airlines which operate flights on behalf of American Airlines are pressing ahead with a lawsuit over a “toxic clothing”... Read More
The American aerospace giant, Boeing has pushed back against allegations in the New York Times of “shoddy production” of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft at a... Read More
Seven members of senior cabin crew at the Dubai-based airline Emirates have been accused of plotting a Hezbelloh-directed terror attack in the city. All seven of... Read More
Three passengers on a Utair Airways flight from Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow have been detained by police after opening the overwing emergency exit and... Read More
At the beginning of April, I wrote about an El Al flight attendant who had contracted measles and was in a serious condition in a Tel Aviv hospital. The... Read More
Last week, the chief executive of British Airways gave a speech at the Royal Aeronautical Society in Central London. Alex Cruz had attended the event mainly to... Read More
Over the last few days, hundreds of environmental protestors have descended on major intersections and landmarks in Central London shutting down roads and even... Read More
The global aviation community has already seen one schism with respect to regulatory views on the 737 MAX. Is another brewing as training requirements are set for the... Read More
It’s been a year since Europe’s largest low-cost airline Ryanair faced its very first cabin crew strikes. The airline has come along way since first... Read More
Wet leasing is probably one of the more unusual but increasingly common services within the aviation industry. Officially known as ACMI which stands for... Read More
Over the last few months and weeks, the prospect of India’s second-largest airline Jet Airways failing had become increasingly a complete certainly and definitely... Read More
Maybe it is temporary, as the airline claims. More likely it is a permanent situation. Without money or a coherent plan for recovery one thing is clear: Jet Airways is... Read More
This week Jen Yellin from Deals We Like has all the details on recent changes made to Wyndham Rewards’ award charts. Tune in to learn... Read More
Two airline chief executives and the boss of global shipping company FedEx have sent an open letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “set the record... Read More
Etihad Airways plans to operate a flight without any single-use plastics onboard to mark Earth Day and to raise awareness about the effects of plastic pollution on the... Read More
Two members of Qatar Airways cabin crew were arrested yesterday at Helsinki Airport (HEL) according to Finnish authorities. Police arrested the two male cabin crew... Read More
United Airlines will once again be a six continent carrier. For four months during the northern Winter the company plans to serve Cape Town, South Africa from its hub in... Read More
We finally have a date for United’s big reveal of its brand new aircraft livery. Expect evolution of the current brand it acquired in the merger with... Read More
JetBlue‘s plans to extend its route network will unfold in stages over the coming couple years, as it reaches deeper into Latin America before jetting off to... Read More
The Financial Times, famous for its industry-leading financial analysis and of course it’s salmon pink coloured pages, has reacted pretty furiously to a decision... Read More
As previously reported, effective today, April 16, 2019, Starbucks has updated to their Starbucks Rewards program. Are Updates to Starbucks Rewards Really a... Read More
The Air France-KLM airline group has said it will provide free transport for all official partners involved in the reconstruction of Notre-Dame in Paris. The... Read More
Is there such a thing as a comfortable airline seat pitched at 28 inches? Scant few passengers would answer that question in the affirmative, but seating manufacturers... Read More
Delta Air Lines has been accused of being the primary voice in lobbying against the implementation of a new minimum rest rule for U.S.-based flight attendants. ... Read More
Maybe it was a mere coincidence? As the world’s attention turned to the terrible news that Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was burning, the German flag carrier... Read More
Norway is arguably one of the most progressive countries in the world but its namesake airline has come under fire for a new set of rules that lawmakers say are not only... Read More
Flights mostly outside Inmarsat's European Aviation Network (EAN) terrestrial network coverage area present a special challenge of service levels and expectations.... Read More
After more than a year in the planning, the world’s busiest international airport plans to close one of just two of its runways for a 45-day period starting... Read More
After more than 71 years there's a new superlative in flight. Scaled Composites' Stratolaunch now holds the title of largest (by wingspan) aircraft to fly, displacing... Read More
Along with some pretty serious weather events that have hampered United’s operations at its hubs in Chicago and Denver earlier this year, the airline has also... Read More