How the "other half" (of one percent) travels...

NTSB determined that the primary probable cause of the accident was pilot error.

I last announced my retirement in a column in Air Transport World’s September 2012 issue. But things change, and as it happened I never left. So how do you write a second retirement column? I have discovered this one is more difficult to compose. I titled that first column -30-, which means the end of the story. Okay, so it wasn’t.

After years of missteps, false promises and multiple delays on the 787-8 and A380 programs, Boeing and Airbus are cruising into the Farnborough Airshow able to boast about smooth, successful flight test programs for the 787-9 and A350-900, respectively.

TWA first class

Emirates did not cancel the order because its belief in the future potential of the air passenger market in the Middle East has dimmed.

Over the last couple of years, oneworld CEO Bruce Ashby has overseen the biggest membership surge in the alliance’s history.