Based in Boston, Ben covers advanced air mobility and is managing editor of Aviation Week Network’s AAM Report.
Ben has a Masters degree in Political Communications from the American University in Washington D.C. Prior to joining Aviation Week, he worked for the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives as its communications coordinator.
Pilots at Southwest Airlines have thrown their support behind Boeing’s effort to obtain more time to certify the 737-7 and 737-10 without adding modern crew-alerting capabilities, ahead of a crucial end-of-year deadline that could jeopardize the future of the smallest and largest members of the 737 MAX family.
New priorities for the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA include improving cabin air quality, preventing sexual assault of flight attendants and issuing greater fines and penalties for unruly passengers.
Mesa CEO Jonathan Ornstein is holding out hope that his company’s new pilot development program could help the industry recover from an ongoing regional pilot shortage but has no illusions about the magnitude of the challenge at hand.
