Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA)

By Sean Broderick
President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of former congressman Sean Duffy as the next U.S. DOT Secretary is earning praise from some key aviation stakeholders.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Lori Ranson
Air Canada is bracing for higher unit costs in 2025 after forging contract-related adjustments to show a better-than-anticipated cost performance for this year.
Airlines & Lessors

By Christine Boynton
Pilots at Frontier Airlines have become the latest bargaining group to authorize potential strike action.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lori Ranson
Air Canada pilots have voted to approve a tentative agreement, ending a contentious period between management and labor that nearly resulted in a strike.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
Talk of a pilot shortage has softened, but the need persists to increase opportunities to ensure a steady flow of qualified candidates.
Maintenance & Training

By Lori Ranson
Air Canada has averted a shutdown in its operations after reaching a new tentative agreement with its pilots.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
Although there is no imminent threat, pilot groups are stepping up their campaign against reduced-crew and single-pilot concepts.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
An industry advisory committee’s year-long look at U.S. pilot pathways has some general, broad conclusions.
Maintenance & Training

By Christine Boynton
The carrier is facing a U.S. Transportation Department investigation into its lengthy recovery from a global IT-system failure.
Airlines & Lessors

By Christine Boynton, Graham Warwick
The FAA’s move to address the growing frequency and complexity of public charter flights presents challenges and opportunities for the AAM industry.
Advanced Air Mobility Departments

By David Casey
An open letter calls for a pause in approvals for additional U.S.-China passenger flights, citing alleged anti-competitive policies by the Chinese government.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chris Sloan
CEO Scott Kirby goes all in on a quest to make United Airlines the biggest and best.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
The FAA’s draft rule on equipping new aircraft with cockpit voice recorders that capture at least 25 hr. of data has stakeholders sharply divided.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
Rapid hiring of US pilots is hurting regionals and raises safety questions.
Airports & Networks

By Christine Boynton
The airline operates exclusively as American Eagle under a partnership with American Airlines that began in March 2023.
Airlines & Lessors

By Christine Boynton
With ratification of their tentative agreement, United Airlines pilots have obtained improvements to pay and benefits—and triggered competitive snap-up clauses.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chris Sloan
Air Canada, like its native home, is transitioning.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
“Controlled rest is not a solution for fatigue,” ALPA President Jason Ambrosi said during a break at the association’s annual safety forum.
Airlines & Lessors

By Christine Boynton
A contract agreement for pilots at United Airlines is progressing, with a Tentative Agreement (TA) valued at $10 billion headed for a ratification vote.
Airlines & Lessors

By Christine Boynton
FAA’s notice comes a little over a year after SkyWest Charter (SWC) applied for commuter air carrier authorization.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
A wrong-runway landing by a FedEx crew last year underscores the value that benign incidents can play in flagging safety risks.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton
Agreements with pilots at American carriers have made great progress this year.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
The Allied Pilots Association, ALPA, and Southwest Airlines Pilots Association wrote an open letter to Congress and President Joe Biden.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton
An agreement-in-principle reached for United Airlines pilots would provide cumulative 34.5%-40.2% increases in pay rates over four years.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
“The pilot shortage has had devastating consequences for smaller communities ...," the Regional Airline Association (RAA) President Faye Malarkey Black said.
Airlines & Lessors