Southwest Airlines’ pilots union slammed Boeing late Wednesday for what it calls a rush to return the grounded 737 Max to service and urged the airline to buy planes from other manufacturers.
Read moreRussia’s Aeroflot on Tuesday stripped a passenger of his air miles after he boasted online of sneaking his overweight cat on board by switching him for a slimmer cat during check-in.
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Wall Street was mostly lower Monday in a quiet holiday session, but Boeing’s announcement that it’s returning its 737 MAX to service after two deadly crashes provide a boost to the Dow.
Read moreIn a new study released Thursday, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say the impact of aviation greenhouse gas emissions on the climate can be lessened, but it requires a careful balance of fuel efficiency and reduction in pollutants.
Read moreA federal class action claims Spirit Airlines sells “passes that purport to allow its customers to skip airport security, when defendant often has no intent or ability to provide such a service.”
Read moreLawmakers blasted Boeing and peppered its CEO on Wednesday with questions about the design and marketing of the 737 Max, the plane involved in two crashes that killed 346 people.
Read moreOne year to the day since Lion Air Flight 610 crashed off the coast of Indonesia and killed all 189 people on board, Boeing’s CEO faced angry questions from Congress on Tuesday over the company’s failure to safely certify its top-selling 737 Max jets.
Read moreEvery day they come. Drug mules from French Guiana in South America, carrying cocaine in their luggage or their stomachs, playing a cat-and-mouse game with customs officials at Paris’ Orly airport.
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The Air Force’s mystery space plane is back on Earth, following a record-breaking two-year mission.
Read moreA former senior Boeing test pilot told a co-worker that he unknowingly misled safety regulators about problems with a flight-control system that would later be implicated in two deadly crashes of the company’s 737 Max.
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Vying to dismantle a class action that says American Airlines forced employees to work during break time, a lawyer for the airlines told the Third Circuit on Tuesday that the specifics of each worker will vary too greatly to satisfy commonality.
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The European Union’s top trade official on Monday said Europe would fight until the very last moment to dissuade the United States from imposing tariffs in retaliation for illegal EU subsidies to Airbus.
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Ethiopian Airlines’ former chief engineer says in a whistleblower complaint filed with regulators that the carrier went into the maintenance records on a Boeing 737 Max jet a day after it crashed this year, a breach he calls part of a pattern of corruption that included fabricating documents, signing off on shoddy repairs and even beating those who got out of line.
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The Southwest Airlines pilots union sued Boeing on Monday, claiming it misrepresented the airworthiness of the now-grounded 737 Max and rushed production of the plane to protect its share in the narrow-body market, resulting in two deadly crashes that killed 346 people.
Read moreThe U.S. can impose $7.5 billion in tariffs on goods from the European Union in an aircraft subsidy dispute, the World Trade Organization said Wednesday, setting the stage for another trade war.
Read moreA federal class action claims the Transportation Security Administration and JPMorgan Chase bank refuse to grant an $85 credit they promised for enrolling in TSA’s expedited security screening program if they categorize the enrollment “as a ‘business’ card, not a ‘consumer’ card,” a distinction without a difference.
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