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Despite weather cancellations or winter break crowds taking over airports in February, one U.S. airport ranked No. 1 for most punctual hub for the month.

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If you’re headed to Spain, there’s a chance there may be more trains—instead of planes—in your itinerary.

A Breeze Airways flight diverted after a passenger's laptop caught fire, the Aviation Herald first reported.

This training programme targets Directors-General to help them better manage safety related challenges post-COVID and to provide a closed-door platform to discuss topical challenges.

Among other initiatives, Sustainable Aero Lab serves as a platform where it openly discusses and promotes zero-emission aviation technologies, including developments such as SAF and hydrogen.

The growing popularity of air travel in all countries remains the key factor for the growth and development of aircraft or aerospace flight control systems. Improved safety protocols for the aviation sector in numerous countries are likely to drive the market further in the coming days.

The new program includes over 80 displays, which feature a carefully curated combination of digital and static advertisements. Departure Media has also designed elements beyond advertising, including the ‘Welcome to Kansas City’ signage located on the bulkhead soffit seen by passengers on their descent to the lower level.

For the first time, there were no hull losses or fatal accidents involving passenger jet aircraft in 2023.

Positive results enhance financial credibility.

Earlier this month, the IRS issued a press release saying it was targeting private jet owners for impermissible reductions. It said that based on the results of dozens of initial audits, it could expand its focus on aircraft owners in its search for extra tax revenues. While the industry’s trade group, the National Business Aviation Association, rebuked the agency for using private jets as a focal point to trigger audits of large companies and UHNWs, everyone agrees the subject is complicated.

Flight attendants at Lufthansa are calling for a surcharge on special meals, with staff saying they're overwhelmed by the amount of different options they need to cater for, German aviation news site Aero Telegraph reported.

Britain’s only hub airport, London Heathrow, carried 79.2 million passengers last year, an increase of 29% on the previous year and the third highest in its history, but retail revenue did not keep up. It rose by 24% and the airport blamed the lackluster commercial performance on the removal of VAT-free shopping.

United Airlines is set to resume Israel service early next month.

Asking passengers to step onto the scales before boarding a flight was always going to be a controversial move. Agitated commentators raged, accusing Finnair, which is Finland’s national carrier, of humiliating passengers and being ‘triggering to people with eating disorders’.

Just last month, the Oneworld alliance launched the first-ever Oneworld-branded lounge in South Korea's Incheon International Airport (ICN). This was only the beginning.

On Saturday night, a Virgin Atlantic aircraft took off from Washington, D.C.'s Dulles International Airport (IAD) at 10:45, bound for London's Heathrow Airport (LHR).

In 1958, when Mary Pat Laffey Inman became a stewardess — as they were then called — for Northwest Airlines, she was 20 years old and the clock was already ticking. At 32, she would be forced to retire. That is, if she didn’t marry, get pregnant or even gain too much weight before that: All were grounds for termination. It was the golden age of aviation for everyone except, perhaps, the women serving in-flight meals to the nattily dressed passengers.

It's been 18 months since the Federal Aviation Administration invited the public to weigh in on airline seats, inspiring a flood of anecdotes about sore knees, poor circulation and cramped conditions.

It takes a traveler to know travel.

The White House announced Thursday it was allocating nearly $1 billion in federal funding for infrastructure projects to modernize 114 U.S. airports across 44 states and three territories.