The crisis of extremely long lines at US airport security checkpoints has largely been alleviated, Southwest Airlines chairman, president and CEO Gary Kelly said.
Major IT meltdowns like those that occurred this summer at Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines, bringing down their entire reservations systems for days, are not indicative of underlying infrastructure problems, but are related to the necessary complexity of airline systems, the chairman and CEO of American Airlines said Tuesday.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommends the FAA, Boeing and airlines explore and mitigate a relatively obscure directional-control problem linked to aircraft with tail-mounted engines.
The European Commission has proposed a single European Union (EU) type-approval certificate for aviation security screening equipment, which will replace the current system of national approvals and cut costs.
sustainable alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) fuel over five years from Gevo, a commitment that allows the renewable chemicals and fuels producer to seek investment to build a commercial-scale refinery.
Fort Worth, Texas-based American Airlines and the union representing the airline’s flight simulator engineers have reached a tentative agreement on a new joint collective bargaining agreement, both parties announced Sept. 9.
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines and its flight attendants have reached a new tentative agreement on a successor contract, the airline announced Sept. 9.
The president of Rolls-Royce’s civil aerospace division, Eric Schulz, has met All Nippon Airlines (ANA) executives in Japan in the wake of several incidents involving the Trent 1000 engines installed on the Japanese carrier’s Boeing 787s.
The uncontained left engine failure on an Aug. 27 Southwest Airlines flight from New Orleans to Orlando was likely initiated by a fan blade that broke off because of metal fatigue, according to a Sept. 12 investigative update by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
European safety regulator EASA has joined FAA in voicing caution over Galaxy Note 7 smartphone use inflight because of Lithium battery-related fire fears.
In an exclusive interview, the International Civil Aviation Organization's president of the council, Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, explains to Keith Mwanalushi how ICAO is responding to air transport challenges throughout Africa.
Airlines face losing control of their customers to reservation systems such as Google FlightSearch unless they take measures to personalize their offers to passengers, audiences at the Aviation Festival in London heard Sept. 9.
FAA has warned airline passengers not to use Samsung Galaxy Note 7 devices on board aircraft following the suspension of sales of the smartphone because of fire fears.
If something like 9/11 happened today—airspace in the world’s largest air transport market completely shut down for more than two days, plus weeks of tepid air travel demand—would a bailout akin to the one provided to US airlines in September 2001 be necessary?
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was listening to Canadian transport minister David Collenette address the Airports Council International-North America Conference and Exhibition at the Montreal convention center.
In the approach to the 15th anniversary of 9/11, the terrorist attack on the US using hijacked airliners as the weapons, ATW editors reflect on the commercial air transport industry then and now. Contributing Editors: Linda Blachly, Aaron Karp, Victoria Moores, Mark Nensel, Karen Walker
The implementation of the SITA QueueAnalyzer at Orlando International Airport (MCO) has resulted in 53% fewer passengers waiting in security checkpoint lines for longer than 15 minutes, according to SITA.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has signed a three-year contract with Los Angeles-based refinery AltAir Fuels and SkyNRG for the supply of sustainable biofuel on all flights between Los Angeles International Airport and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
