Grants add to an already large pot available for helping local airports shore up infrastructure and weather the pandemic. More than $273 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants from the Federal Aviation Administration have been awarded to 41 states and US territories. The sum is a considerable decrease from the $800 million Transportation Secretary…
Various companies have in recent years been working to develop underlying air traffic technologies intended to support the expected rapid expansion of the commercial unmanned urban air mobility (UAM) industry. Those players include Google affiliate Wing, a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, which is now calling attention to the “InterUSS Platform”, a data-transfer and unmanned…
The recently published ‘Busiest Routes 2020’ report, compiled by travel data provider OAG, is a comprehensive investigation into the world’s most extreme airline routes, in terms of not only passenger numbers and competition levels, but also length. The USA, in particular, is home to several incredibly short domestic routes, but where exactly can these be found?…
The U.S. aviation industry is urging the government to establish COVID-19 testing protocols before international flights as a way to safely reopen travel routes that have been cut amid the pandemic. Industry stakeholders want the U.S. to reach an agreement on pre-flight COVID-19 testing procedures with Europe, Canada or the Pacific first as part of a “limited…
Alaska Airlines announced Monday it plans to expand its offerings at Palm Springs International Airport by adding nonstop flights to San Jose International Airport, Reno-Tahoe International Airport and Boise Airport in Idaho beginning Dec. 17. The Palm Springs-to-San Jose route will be year-round, while the other two will be part of the airline’s seasonal schedule…
Ongoing travel restrictions between the UK and the USA will negatively affect the former’s economy by £32 million ($41 million) a day by the beginning of October, but losses could be reduced and confidence restored if some markets between the two countries were allowed to reopen later this year, according to a new study carried…
If you board a domestic flight in Asia-Pacific, you might end up flying for more hours than you bargained. Some countries in the region wrap around the globe, facilitating domestic routes well over 2,000 miles. What are the longest domestic routes in the region, and how do they operate? What is a long domestic route? When we…
Southwest Airlines temporarily grounded 115 Boeing 737-800 on July 16 because of inconsistencies in aircraft weight data. “Out of an abundance of caution, we temporarily ceased flying the respective aircraft to enter the correct weights of the aircraft in question into the system and reset the program,” said Chris Mainz, Southwest on July 16. “As…
WASHINGTON – Two Boeing 737 MAX crashes that killed all 346 passengers and crew aboard were the “horrific culmination” of failures by the planemaker and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a U.S. House panel concluded after an 18-month investigation. The crashes “were not the result of a singular failure, technical mistake, or mismanaged event,” the House…
Airbus celebrated five years of operation at its single-aisle production facility in Mobile, Alabama on Monday. The company made Mobile its first U.S.-based manufacturing plant in 2015 with 250 employees and the goal of bringing the production of its most popular narrow body jet, the A320 family, closer to its U.S. customers. Not only has…
The global aviation industry says now is the time to begin planning “the mission of the century”: delivering a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine to billions of people in some of the most remote parts of the world. The International Air Transport Association said in a statement Thursday that shipping a single dose of the…