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United Airlines holds job fair to fill 1,000 positions

United Airlines is desperate to have a full staff for this summer 2022, the list of positions is huge and time is running out. That is why the airline decided to open the more than 1,000 positions they currently have to the general public and held a job fair in Chicago yesterday, Wednesday, April 13....

United Airlines will keep Boeing 777 with PW4000 engines grounded

Several Boeing 777-200 belonging to United Airlines will have to wait a little longer to be able to rejoin the fleet of the US mega airline. The planes were grounded after an incident that led to an uncontained failure in one of the turbojets of a United Airlines Boeing 777 in February 2021. The incident...

Unvaccinated United Airlines employees will return to work

In a major victory for freedom of choice in the United States, according to an internal memo, all unvaccinated United Airlines staff which were placed on unpaid leave a few months back, will be allowed to go back to work and won’t be fired as it was stated by the airline last September. United will...

Airlines cut down summer schedules over pilot shortage

The airlines in the United States can definitely not cope with the flow of passengers and the demand for travel that has been created after the Covid-19 pandemic. The airlines are simply not prepared to handle the demand, so what’s next? The answer… make the crews grow and reduce the schedules. These measures are without...

American Airlines will connect Philadelphia by bus

American Airlines is about to start moving people en masse as usual but at much much lower altitudes than normal. The world’s biggest airline in fleet size announced yesterday April 7 that they will be offering bus connections between Philadelphia and a big array of regional airports located in the vicinity of the former capital...

Spirit Airlines will analyze the takeover offer by JetBlue

Spirit Airlines announced yesterday April 7 that they will sit down and talk to JetBlue regarding the outstanding offering to takeover the Floridian low cost carrier. It the merger with JetBlue were to take place, it would destroy months of negotiations between Spirit and Frontier Airlines who had made a previous offer to buy the...

Southwest Airlines suffered delays of over 75% of its flights last weekend

Over 75% of departing and arriving Southwest Airlines flights into Raleigh-Durham International Airport were delayed last Saturday. The reason behind the delays was a series of problems with the airline’s computer system that ended up causing the delays and cancellations. At 10:30 am LT of last Saturday 13 out of 16 Southwest Airlines flights that...

Nose gear issue forces LATAM Airlines A320 to perform emergency landing

Yesterday, march 29 a LATAM Airlines  Airbus A320-200 registration CC-BAS operating flight LA4292 from Medellin International Airport (MDE) and Cartagena (CTG) was forced to return to its departure airport due to a failure in its nose landing gear. Passengers at the airport were able to capture the moment when the aircraft touched down on the...

United Officially Opens Flight Academy And Welcomes Historic Inaugural Pilot Class

United, the only major U.S., airline to own a flight training school, officially opened United Aviate Academy today and welcomed a historic inaugural class of future pilots, 80% of whom are women or people of color. United Aviate Academy is a key part of the airline’s goal to train about 5,000 new pilots at the school...

Commemoration of Pearl Harbor by American and Southwest Airlines

This past December 7th in the United States we commemorated the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which ultimately led to the US entering WWII. Two national airlines took advantage of this 80th anniversary to commemorate as well. American Airlines and Southwest Airlines, both of which are traditionally very committed to our military, had...

Goodbye, Doug! American Airlines Changes CEO

American Airlines CEO, Doug Parker announced today that he will retire sometime in March of 2022. Parker famously led American through the merger with US Airways and a very controversial image change that included a revamp of the iconic AA logo. The heir to AA’s throne is the current President, Robert Isom who hopes to put...

Trump appointed federal judge strikes down mask mandates on planes

Donald Trump is a year and a half out of the presidency of the United States and the changes he made to the world’s largest economic power are still being felt. The American aviation community is partying after yesterday, Monday, April 18, A Federal Judge appointed by Former President Donald Trump, eliminated the mandate of the...

Dethroned! The case of the Boeing 737 MAX Part 1

The Boeing 737 MAX is the newest single-aisle aircraft in the Boeing family. A piece of engineering like few others have been seen worldwide with a tremendous amount of technology mounted on a reliable and fairly well-proven platform that is found all over the world operating with reliability and consistency. Unfortunately, this is not the...

Senator Ted Cruz is denied boarding in Montana

Our favorite senator from Texas, the Republican Ted Cruz is no alien to controversy. Whether it’s hot issues on the senate floor or his opinions on the current administration, Sen. Cruz never disappoints. This time Cruz made the news over his now famous love-hate relationship with United Airlines. https://youtu.be/NZQ8brIXfJ0 Ted Cruz has expressed his solidarity...

Dethroned! The case of the Boeing 737 MAX part two

In our first installment, we talked about the problems faced by the Boeing 737 MAX, this time we will delve a little more into the challenges of the newest aircraft from the American mega manufacturer. Boeing has lost a lot of business because of this. Every day we report on airlines that, in an effort...

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Cathay Pacific will fly world’s longest flight

There’s nothing better to bring back the glory days of commercial aviation than an around-the-world flight, and if we’re talking about tradition, nothing more traditional than a flight from Hong Kong to New York. Just the mention of it brings back memories of Pan Am, their Boeing 747 SPs and Kai Tak, the long gone...