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Government finally gets serious planes under its own control so deportations do not depend on slow or expensive outside help anymore. This fleet build-up will crank up the numbers way higher than before because they can fly whenever needed without waiting. @DHSgov What happened to all those Spirit Airlines planes ✈️ 🤨? We could double …
Budget carriers pin their collapse on skyrocketing fuel tied straight to Middle East conflict. JetBlue is now formally warning us of a potential bankruptcy as fuel costs continue to skyrocket due to the Trump war. One analysis put their odds of filing for bankruptcy at 75%. Frontier is also on Bankruptcy watch with the same …
Delta customers in uproar as airline cuts snack and beverage service on hundreds of flights daily https://t.co/kaPUqak1W5 pic.twitter.com/TmHJaOKaV9 — New York Post (@nypost) May 5, 2026 It’s B.Y.O. snacks for thousands of Delta passengers. Starting May 19, Delta Air Lines will no longer offer food and beverage service on 450 daily flights. The removal of …
Delta suspends its special desk service for members of Congress until the Democrat shutdown of DHS is over: “Due to the impact on resources from the longstanding government shutdown, Delta will temporarily suspend specialty services to members of Congress flying Delta.” pic.twitter.com/m5XOWbqHKD — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 24, 2026 View post on imgur.com NOW: …
Hundreds of airline catering workers blocked the entrance near Los Angeles International Airport on one of the busiest travel days of the year. “The demonstrations took place along Century Boulevard and outside the Los Angeles airport’s pickup and dropoff areas,” Fox 11 reported. “According to union leaders representing the LAX airline catering workers, the demonstration …
An American airline has announced its immediate shutdown after 66 years of service. Kenai Aviation has declared itself ‘financially insolvent’ and ceased operations, cancelling all flights. The owner of Kenai Aviation, Joel Caldwell, issued a statement expressing his devastation at the events. He wrote: ‘Where some see passengers, I see connecting Alaskans. ‘I see people …
The numbers don’t just clash. They flip. In cities like San Francisco, New York, and Boston, unionized city bus drivers with seniority and overtime routinely break into the $80,000 to $100,000+ range. Career.com’s 2025 breakdown shows California’s average city bus driver salary at $50,201, before overtime, bonuses, or night shifts. Career.com That is not a …
🇮🇷 Epic footage: Airline passengers over Saudi Arabia captured the launch of ballistic missiles from Iran heading toward Israel. pic.twitter.com/9YqhZ8LgvE — DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) June 16, 2025
Sherry Walker has been a commercial airline pilot for almost 35 years. She says DEI has so completely undermined safety standards that pilots are sometimes afraid to leave the cockpit for fear of what their co-pilots will do unattended. (0:00) Why Are All These Planes Crashing?… pic.twitter.com/Fl5SNtRlmB — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 24, 2025
JetBlue has cut scores of routes across the US, including several flights from New York’s John F. Kennedy airport to other major American cities. The budget airline is axing flights from JFK to Austin, Houston, Miami and Milwaukee. It is also cutting routes from Westchester, New York, to Charleston, South Carolina, and between Jacksonville and …
A former serviceman who was injured on duty and a cabin manager who began her flight career at the age of 59 are part of an all-black airline crew flying from Manchester and London in celebration of Black History Month. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/all-black-airline-crew-to-fly-from-uk-to-mark-black-history-month
Airlines will be forced to offer cash refunds for delayed or cancelled flights without customers having to ask, under major new rules being finalized by the Biden administration. The new plans, which have been nearly three years in the works, will require airlines to provide automatic refunds within a few days of a flight being …
(Bloomberg) — The rewards programs of the four largest US air carriers — Delta Air Lines Inc., American Airlines Group Inc., United Airlines Holdings Inc. and Southwest Airlines Co. — are being probed by the US Department of Transportation, the agency announced Thursday. The department has asked the airlines to submit reports on their programs …
by Parking-Ice-9206 So I spent the past few days making a chart of every single US Airline Co-branded credit card and I have realized just how much they suck at earning points. It seems in virtually every category there is a transferable currency card that can earn the same if not more than what the …
A mechanic has been sucked into a Boeing passenger jet’s engine and killed at Chabahar Konarak airport in southern Iran after he went to retrieve a tool near the aircraft. Local mechanic Abolfazl Amiri was doing routine maintenance work on Iranian domestic airline Varesh Airline’s Boeing 737-500 when he was sucked into the engine. According …
A mother is suing American Airlines after her 14-year-old son died from a heart attack on one of the planes in 2022. The federal lawsuit alleges that the plane’s onboard defibrillator did not function correctly and that the flight crew was not properly trained to use the medical equipment. Melissa Arzu and her son were flying from …
We’ve talked before about how the DEI agenda is infecting the airline industry and putting all of our lives in jeopardy. It turns out the rot is much worse, and goes much deeper, than you know or want to know. “I googled it” is definitely a line every experienced pilot wants to hear from an …
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1744821198867902843 Progressives definitely will accept more flying deaths in service of the DEI agenda. No question about this. Air safety is also hard to measure in context. US commercial crashes and incidents could double and remain statistically tiny and thus the system would remain very… — Jeff Deist (@jeffdeist) January 9, 2024 h/t LoneStarRising
Southwest Airlines and its pilots’ union have reached a new preliminary labor agreement that would give pilots 50% cumulative pay increases over the life of the contract, a deal that could end years of tense negotiations. Southwest is the last of the largest U.S. passenger airlines to strike a deal that is set to give …
You probably haven’t heard about it but we have come very close to some major airplane disasters recently. And the government’s diversity initiatives have a lot to do with it.
While Lufthansa has tried to do its bit to adopt sustainable practices, the company’s chief has said that switching the airline to green fuels like e-kerosene could come at a big price—half of Germany’s electricity supply. “We would need around half of Germany’s electricity to create enough of the fuels,” Lufthansa’s Carsten Spohr said at …
Lugging around a heavy suitcase on holiday could become a thing of the past if an airline’s clothes rental experiment proves a good fit for customers. The service, dubbed ‘Any Wear, Anywhere’, allows passengers to rent a bundle of clothing ahead of their flight, which is then delivered straight to their hotel or AirBnb on …
Buttigieg warns of even MORE airline delays over July 4 holiday – and says he is ‘less focused’ on United Airlines making changes to avoid massive travel disruptions in the future Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg doesn’t appear worried with how United Airlines plans to improve following a massive series of delays ahead of Independence Day. …