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Senate passes FAA bill, after spat over Congress’s favorite airport
By Mary Clare Jalonick The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Senate has passed a $105 billion bill designed to improve air safety and customer service for air travelers, a day before the law governing the Federal Aviation Administration expires. The bipartisan bill, which comes after a series of close calls between planes at the nation’s -
Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing
Somewhere along the line, the plane maker lost interest in making its own planes. Can it rediscover its engineering soul? By Jerry Useem Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The sight of Bill Boeing was a familiar one on the factory floor. His office was in the building next to the converted boatyard where workers lathed the -
2024-03-28Will Your Points and Miles Be Impacted by the Credit Card Legal Settlement?
Scott Laird | March 28, 2024 In the U.S. credit cards are big business for airlines. Visa and Mastercard have settled litigation with U.S. merchants, ending a long-standing legal case over the swipe fees the credit card processors collect every time a customer uses them to make a purchase. The settlement will lower the swipe -
Why Boeing is such a shitty company (continued)
Friends, On Friday, machinists at Rogue Valley International Airport in Medford, Oregon, discovered that a United Airlines plane that had landed from San Francisco was missing an external panel (see photo, above). The plane was manufactured by Boeing. It was carrying 139 passengers and 6 crew. No one was injured, thank heavens. The missing panel -
Alaska Airlines CEO sees ‘business travel finally starting to come back’
By Mark Calvey – Senior Reporter, San Francisco Business Times Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci said Tuesday that business travel is coming back, including in Seattle. “We’re seeing more business traffic come back,” Minicucci told those attending the J.P. Morgan Industrials Conference Tuesday. “What’s really been helpful is the return of business and corporate traffic for us -
2024-03-01
Expensive Flights Become New Normal on $5 Trillion Green Transition
Decarbonization measures are pushing up ticket costs worldwide Energy transition means little price respite for flying public It’s passengers who’ll have to pay to neutralize aviation’s carbon footprint. Photographer: Giuseooe Cacace/AFP/Getty Images Follow International Air Transport Association By Angus Whitley The global airline industry has long warned passengers they’ll eventually have to pay some of the -
2024-02-05Airline Business Class Cabin Interior
Image shows a passenger sleeping in a luxury business class airline seat that converts to a flat bed. The cabin features modern amenities including wood-grain surfaces, ambient lighting, and premium bedding. -
Pan Airlines First Class Service 747 1970’s
A flight attendant in a white blouse and decorative scarf presents an elaborate first-class meal service featuring champagne, caviar, shrimp, fruit platters, and assorted hors d'oeuvres to two passengers. The retro styling, uniform design, and photographic quality suggest this image dates from approximately the 1970s–1980s; one champagne bottle label is partially legible reading 'CHAMPAGNE,' but no airline logo or specific carrier is clearly identifiable. -
Other passengers support man who opened emergency exit and walked on plane’s wing in Mexico airport
MEXICO CITY (AP) — At first it sounds like a typical case of bad behavior aboard airplanes. The Mexico City International Airport acknowledged in a statement Friday that a man had opened an emergency exit and walked out on a wing of a plane that was parked and waiting for takeoff Thursday. The airport said -
Boeing hit by quality lapses, certification delays; Airbus soars to dominance
By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter While Boeing’s leadership scrambled to contain its latest crisis — following the in-flight door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 — top executives at Airbus confidently laid out the rival’s success in 2023 and its dominance of the commercial airliner business. The data on last year’s jet