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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.

Spirit Airlines is postponing plans to fly to Mexico's newest major airport before it's even opened to international airlines.

Before the advent of drones, people had to rely mostly on airplanes or helicopters to take aerial photographs. Now, thanks to increasing availability and decreasing price points of drones, as well as advances in obstacle avoidance technology, GPS navigation, battery life and camera stabilization, it certainly seems easier to take photographs from higher elevations.

Las Vegas, the venue for Super Bowl LVIII, could be a synonym for the private jet business entering 2024. After all, you arrive with high hopes and some money in your pocket. You leave a winner or loser, and sometimes with a hangover, regardless of how much cash is left in your bank account.

If you're flying Hawaiian Airlines between Hawaii and the U.S. mainland, you may soon have access to fast, free Wi-Fi via Elon Musk's Starlink technology.

Volcanic activity in Iceland has been rumbling on for months, centred around the Reykjanes Peninsula near Reykjavík, in the southwest of the country. After multiple earthquakes, the most recent series of eruptions kicked off at the end of 2023, when an explosion along a 2.5-mile fissure sent lava into the air a couple of miles northeast of the fishing village of Grindavík; another followed shortly afterwards.

JetBlue is coming full circle.