Based in Rhode Island, Ben covers advanced air mobility and is a contributor to Aviation Week’s Business Aviation & 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.
Alaska Airlines is cutting its schedule by 2% through the end of June, part of an effort to address the operational strains caused by a shortage of available pilots.
Lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate have introduced a bill that would create a federal no-fly list for airline passengers who assault flight attendants and crewmembers.
What happens next depends on a combination of Frontier’s reaction—whether it makes a counteroffer—and how the Spirit board of directors judges the tradeoffs between a relatively safer merger with Frontier, and the prospect of a perhaps more ambitious future with JetBlue.
