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Those who fly the airlines on domestic routes in the next few months may have a more comfortable experience thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak. Airlines that have curtailed long-haul service to Asia and Europe because of the virus will be using some of the orphaned widebody aircraft on domestic routes to try and blunt the […]

Heathrow Airport will have to prove that a proposed third runway falls in line with the U.K.’s commitments on climate change, the British Court of Appeal has determined. Environmental groups, town councils and the mayor of London brought the case and it was originally rejected but the appeals court overturned that decision. The court did […]

British budget carrier Flybe is blaming the decline in business from the COVID-19 outbreak for its decision to stop flying last week. The airline, which has been in business since 1979, ceased operations on Thursday, stranding thousands. In a statement released on its website, the airline said it had no alternatives for passengers who were […]

A pilot shortage has suddenly become a surplus in some cases as the spread of COVID-19 prompts flight cancellations and travel bans. On Friday, United Airlines offered its long-haul pilots a month off at two-thirds pay as it chops service to most of Asia. Earlier in the week, United said the travel market to China […]

A deliberately set fire destroyed a 40-year-old Falcon 50 at a Toronto airport on Thursday and whoever did it apparently wanted it known it was intentional. Emergency crews were called to the ramp of Buttonville Airport just before midnight where the groundbreaking tri-jet from the 1970s was burning merrily in the middle of a snowstorm. […]

Police in Vancouver, B.C., are looking for a man who managed to get a commercial floatplane started before ramming two others at a seaplane terminal at the city’s harbor early Friday morning and causing major damage. Police were called to the dock about 3:30 a.m. to investigate reports that a man had tried to steal […]

A British study has found that relatively small changes in altitude for a fraction of airline flights could reduce one of aviation’s climate change impacts by 59 percent. Imperial College in London says about 1.7 percent of flights are responsible for almost two-thirds of the warming effect on the planet caused by radiative forcing, in […]

A massive weather system that is bringing havoc to northern Europe had a silver lining for passengers and crew aboard a British Airways 747-400 heading from JFK to Heathrow overnight Saturday. The flight’s routing matched the path of a 265-MPH jet stream and the crew was able to get the old Jumbo up to 825 […]

The world’s sixth busiest airport (by passenger traffic) actually created its own weather last week with a phenomenon known as “airplane effect snow” dropping a dusting of the white stuff over the airport and surrounding area last week. ABC 7 reported that meteorological conditions lined up to create the band of light snow, which affected […]

Two major environmental groups have given the EPA six months to take action against pollution caused by aircraft or face a lawsuit. The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth announced the potential legal action, saying the EPA issued a determination in 2016 that aircraft emissions are a danger to human health but […]