House Democrats try to claw back COVID aid from cargo airlines

Atlas Air, Kalitta Air, Amerijet and Western Global are in the crosshairs of a key House committee in Congress for taking COVID bailout money while earnings are rising. (www.freightwaves.com) Plus d'info...

Passenger Who Refused To Wear Her Mask Punches Delta Flight Attendant After Verbal Argument

A Delta Air Lines flight from Miami to Atlanta was forced to return to the gate after a female passenger refused to comply with the airline’s mask policy. (www.gatechecked.com) Plus d'info...

Why Alaska Airlines can’t retire its Airbus A320s all at once

The word from Alaska Airlines headquarters is that they want out of the Airbus A320. The airline industry has contracted dramatically during the coronavirus pandemic. Every carrier is focused on cutting costs — including furloughing employees at some — and streamlining where they can to survive. As part of that effort, airlines have shed hundreds of jets, from the Boeing 757s and 767s at American Airlines to the McDonnell Douglas MD-88s and MD-90s at Delta Air Lines. Analysts at Cowen estimate… (thepointsguy.com) Plus d'info...

KATL - Empty via Google Maps

Was on Google Maps the other night and noticed a rare event. Clearly this image must have been taken over summer but to see this airport with less than five planes f gate is crazy. Last picture is KORD international terminal which was 100% vacant. (photos.google.com) Plus d'info...

IATA Reiterates Call For Rapid Testing To Replace Quarantines And Border Closures

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is once again making a plea to various government organizations to re-open borders to revitalize the struggling travel sector. According to their latest round of stats, travel globally has fallen by 92% when compared to 2019, and sees quarantines as one of the biggest stumbling blocks when it comes to air travel. (www.gatechecked.com) Plus d'info...

What Are The Oldest Operating Commercial Aircraft?

Commercial jet flight as we know it today has been around for almost 50 years. That is an amazing span of time across which many new technologies, aircraft, and even planemakers have arisen and made their names in the market– though some of them are no longer flying. (simpleflying.com) Plus d'info...

Singapore Airlines is launching the new world's longest flight that will see flyers spending almost 19 hours on a plane nonstop

Singapore Airlines will start a new route between Singapore and New York that will take the title of the world's longest flight when it launches in November. (www.businessinsider.com) Plus d'info...

Cathay Pacific ‘to axe 6,000 staff and Dragon brand’ in bid to stay afloat, with most cuts aimed at Hong Kong workforce

Reductions, which sources say will be announced on Wednesday, are a quarter less than expected and smaller than industry average (www.scmp.com) Plus d'info...

Embraer 195 starts operations in Vietnam with Bamboo Airways

The jets will operate in a region with an archipelago of 16 islands where tourism is well explored and which were served only by turboprop aircraft due to the short runway, light pavement and lack of fuel supply infrastructure... (cmsherbert.blogspot.com) Plus d'info...