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United Airlines has cut corporate officer salaries in half and is reducing its overall flight capacity by 50 percent for the next 10 weeks, according to the Financial Post. The company’s bookings have dropped by $1.5 billion in March so far and CEO Oscar Munoz and President Scott Kirby said in a memo to employees […]

American Airlines has drastically cut international service by 75 percent immediately and will pare down domestic and short-haul international flights in the Americas by 30 percent by May. As of Monday, the carrier will be down to three flights a week from Dallas/Fort Worth to Tokyo Narita as its only service to Asia and by […]

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 […]