Airlines desperately want more planes — but Boeing and Airbus can't keep up
The bottlenecks have forced global carriers to adjust their 2025 capacity plans, cut routes, and spend more money to keep ...
Airbus Delivers 3 A220 Jets To US Airlines In January
In total, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue, and United Airlines added five Airbus aircraft to their fleets in January.
A timeline of last week’s air disaster in Washington, the deadliest in the US since 2001
It has been nearly a week since a commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter collided in midair near Washington’s Ronald ...
Not just Reagan: Airports across the US have struggled with air traffic control staffing in recent years, data shows
Some major US airports had less than 60% of their staffing targets filled with fully certified controllers in recent years, ...
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US airlines’ 16-year safety record ended with tragedy. There were warnings ahead of the crash
US airlines had gone 16 years without a fatal crash until Wednesday night. But as impressive as that safety record had been, there have been warning signs in recent years of a significant risk of ...
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America’s two largest budget airlines propose merger — what could it mean for fliers?
US budget airline Frontier is again attempting to join forces with its low-cost rival Spirit Airlines, three years after the companies failed to complete a proposed merger. The two airlines are ...
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Alaska crash marks third air tragedy in US in just 2 weeks
A plane carrying 10 people that went missing in rural Alaska on Thursday during bad weather looks set to be the third deadly aviation disaster in the U.S. over a span of just two weeks.
Data from the deadliest US air accident in a generation show conflicting altitude readings
Investigators hope to reconcile the altitude differences with data from the helicopter’s black box, which is taking more time ...
Crews still searching for flight reported missing on Thursday in Alaska
Crews in Nome, Alaska, are conducting search-and-rescue operations after the report of a missing Bering Air caravan with 10 people aboard.
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Despite recent tragedies, flying is still safe. Here's what travelers should know.
The odds of being seriously injured or killed while flying on a commercial airline in America are low. But statistics don't tell the whole story. Here's how the aviation industry got so safe.