Julie Johnsson, Harry Suhartono and Alan Levin, Bloomberg
Airline passengers probably should not be worried about flying the Boeing 737 Max, the manufacturer's newest jet. But Boeing and safety regulators have a duty to find out what happened last week and to ensure it does not happen again.
1 week ago
Maryam Khan Cope, Skift
Midterm elections have rarely been this galvanizing or controversial. For industry observers and executives, the question remains of how changes in Washington will impact the business of travel. With a divided government, expect most of the changes to regulations to come from the Trump administration.
2 weeks ago
Kevin Freking, Associated Press
Airlines would prefer less regulation, not more. Yet we don't expect they'll be affected much by these Congressional proposals. It should be business-as-usual if and when the bill passes.
2 months ago
Alan Levin andMary Schlangenstein, Bloomberg
Shame on you, FAA. A federal inspector befriends an American Airlines official and then fails to respond to safety complaints at the airline. Let's hope this kind of coziness isn't systemic.
4 months ago
Alexa Green, Bloomberg
If there's something that could get traction with the public, it's cramped seats on a plane. We've all been smushed. Watch out, FAA, on these calls for protest.
4 months ago
Alan Levin, Bloomberg
This was a non-starter from the beginning. There was no way a flyers-rights group was going to force the FAA to impose new seating standards for airlines. However, it's true that emergency evacuations are taking longer than before, so safety regulators will need to come up other strategies to speed evacuation times.
5 months ago
Brian Sumers, Skift
The Department of Transportation's inspector general has several ongoing audits trying to measure the effectiveness of the Federal Aviation Administration. That's probably a nuisance to the FAA, but it's not necessarily a bad thing. Oversight is important.
5 months ago
Alan Levin, Bloomberg
The fact that these oversights affected planes bearing fewer seats, used by smaller carriers, is surely of little comfort to some frequent flyers.
5 months ago
Mary Schlangenstein, Bloomberg
Jane Garvey is likely to have a busy few years overseeing CEO Oscar Munoz, with a number of big decisions on the horizon.
6 months ago
Alan Levin, Bloomberg
Boom! Supersonic flights just got one step closer to becoming a reality again, thanks to news that U.S. regulations about them are coming up for review with an intent to loosen them.
6 months ago
Richard Clough, Mary Schlangenstein and Alan Levin, Bloomberg
Southwest has finished its inspections without finding any more fan blade cracks like the one that led to a fatal engine failure in April. Now authorities want other airlines to speed up their inspections of older engines with the highest risk of failure. Passengers would appreciate that too.
6 months ago
Brian Sumers, Skift
It's hard to know what to make of this. There could be something there, or the inspector general's office could just be changing the scope of its audit of the FAA to placate several members of Congress.
6 months ago