The furor over alleged Gulf carrier subsidies and Open Skies compliance got a thorough airing today at the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation 14th Annual Aviation Summit in Washington DC.

Rather than being celebrated for making life better, airlines are seen as the enemy. Everything that used to be free, now has a fee.

If European airlines were not based in Europe, would they be more successful?

Mitsubishi desperately needs US customers SkyWest and Trans States, which hold the vast majority of the 223 MRJs on firm order.

Qantas’ first Boeing 747-400 was retired after completing 13,833 flights over 25.3 years in service.

We are now one year on from when Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappeared from radar early in its scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and then inexplicably vanished.

Today, after two years of “investigation” and a largely behind-closed-doors campaign (apart from the Delta CEO’s unfortunate CNN interview), the three major US carriers finally made public the document that allegedly proves their Gulf carrier rivals are operating only because of more than $40 billion subsidies from their state owners.