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With Summer 2018 vacation planning already under way, United announced this morning its plan to launch seasonal routes to four new destinations in Europe including Reykjavik, Iceland, Porto, Portugal, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Zurich, Switzerland. While Reykjavik will be served via United’s hub in Newark, Zurich’s new route will come from San Francisco. Finally, Edinburgh service […]

Earlier this week, United Technologies Corp agreed to purchase Rockwell Collins, Inc. for approximately $23 billion. This proposed merger has the potential to significantly shake things up within the aircraft-parts manufacturing industry. United Technologies Corp is among the largest aircraft-parts manufacturers in the world, producing a considerable amount of aerospace systems including aircraft engines, which […]

We’ve all heard the stories and seen the pictures: a beautiful September morning 16 years ago that forever altered the landscape of America and the aviation industry. If you’re old enough, you recall where you were on that fateful day. These three American Airlines managers do as well. They all had direct and immediate involvement […]

Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida on Sunday morning striking the state as a category four storm with 130 mile per hour winds and storm surges reaching 15 miles an hour. Irma has already torn through the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, Barbuda, St. Martin, and Cuba. The massive storm struck the iconic airport of […]

Singapore Changi Airport is due to open its brand new Terminal 4 at the end of October. The new terminal, which will officially open on October 31, is a stepping stone towards the future of air travel, introducing new automated systems to help make passengers’ experience from check in to boarding quicker and easier. The […]

Qantas and GE Aviation, in a joint collaboration, have created a new flight data application for pilots that helps with flight efficiency and lowering carbon emissions. The new platform is called FlightPulse, and it is the first commercialized product to be developed with mobile services from GE’s Predix platform. FlightPulse allows pilots to access their […]

Virgin Atlantic has officially become the first airline in Europe to offer WiFi onboard its entire fleet. The airline is also the first to offer in-flight connectivity for flights between London and Africa, China, and the Caribbean. The airline is utilizing Panasonic to provide WiFi onboard the new Boeing 787s and Gogo on its fleet […]

For years, Middle Eastern air carriers have been impacted by various conflicts in the region. However, some of the greatest impact is felt in the war-torn country of Syria. Syrian aviation has been confronted with the complicated issue of how to continue air carrier service while the Syrian Civil War is still waging, now for […]

United Airlines announced on Thursday that it will be starting nonstop service between its Houston hub at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and Sydney, Australia (SYD) on Jan. 18, 2018, pending government approval, with a Boeing 787-9 aircraft. This comes right after the airline fully restarted service to Houston after Hurricane Harvey. This will be […]

With the Japanese islands of Ryukyu becoming a popular domestic tourist destination, airlines made moves to provide flights to the island chain. One of these carriers was Southwest Air Lines which started operations throughout the island chain in 1967 with a single Convair 240. The airline based its operations around the city of Naha in […]