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It’s beginning to look like another record for holiday travel

AAA predicts that more than 119 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home between Saturday and New Year’s Day.

20.12.2024 4

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Americans are on track to set another record for holiday travel, topping the bar set in 2019

A government shutdown that could start as soon as Saturday would likely be too close to the holidays to immediately affect flights and airport...

20.12.2024 20

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‘Busiest Thanksgiving ever’ as 80 million expected to travel for the holiday and record numbers set to flood U.S. airports

Airline passengers might get lucky like they did last year, when relatively few flights were canceled during the holiday week.

25.11.2024 4

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America’s struggling budget airlines are pursuing premium passengers to solve their problems

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby recently declared that low-cost carriers were using “a fundamentally flawed business model” and customers hate...

22.11.2024 2

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Delta CEO Ed Bastian calls Trump administration a ‘breath of fresh air’ for airlines

Bastian noted that President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a pledge to reform the federal government and reduce its size.

20.11.2024 1

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Spirit Airlines files for bankruptcy as it tries to recover from failed sale to JetBlue

Spirit, the biggest U.S. budget airline, has lost more than $2.5 billion since the start of 2020 and faces looming debt payments totaling more than...

18.11.2024 4

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Boeing’s machinists may have ended their strike but the embattled aerospace giant still faces a world of problems

Above all, Boeing needs to produce more planes.

06.11.2024 20

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Boeing machinists strike finally ends as workers vote to accept contract with 38% raise—but no pension

Leaders of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers district in Seattle said 59% of members who cast ballots agreed to...

05.11.2024 40

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Boeing union workers are voting on another contract offer—a 38% raise—that could end 7-week machinists strike

A vote to ratify the contract would clear the way for the aerospace giant to resume airplane production and bring in much-needed cash.

04.11.2024 10

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Boeing workers’ anger over lost pensions behind vote to continue 6-week machinists strike

Boeing demanded in 2013 that machinists drop their pension plan as part of an agreement to build a new model of the 777 jetliner in Washington state.

25.10.2024 2

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Boeing woes don’t stop as workers reject latest contract offer and continue 6-week strike

Local union leaders in Seattle said 64% of members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers who cast ballots Wednesday...

24.10.2024 10

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American Airlines fined $50 million for failing to give wheelchair help to disabled passengers and damaging thousands of wheelchairs

The investigation was prompted in part by three formal complaints the Paralyzed Veterans of America filed against American.

23.10.2024 2

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Boeing 737 Max crash victims’ relatives to push judge to toss ‘superficial’ settlement deal with plane maker

The family members want the government to put Boeing on trial, where the company could face tougher punishment.

11.10.2024 2

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Southwest Airlines says assigned seats and premium perks are coming in 2026

The changes will amount to the biggest ever at Southwest, which is the original low-cost airline but is now well into middle age and suffering from...

27.09.2024 5

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Checked bag fees could come to Southwest as fight between airline and Paul Singer’s hedge fund gets bitter

They will give more details at an investor meeting Thursday about dumping so-called open seating, charging a premium for the best seats, and...

26.09.2024 50

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Southwest plans to cut flights to Atlanta to save money and its unions are unhappy

Southwest will cut 58 flights per day and reduce its presence at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport from 18 to 11 gates, according to...

26.09.2024 3

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Boeing gives striking workers more time to consider ‘best and final’ contract offer union has already called inadequate

On picket lines in the Pacific Northwest, strikers said the company’s latest offer wasn't good enough.

25.09.2024 3

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Boeing union says planemaker’s ‘final offer’ of a 30% raise for striking workers is not good enough

The union complained that Boeing publicized its latest offer to 33,000 striking workers without first bargaining with union negotiators.

24.09.2024 3

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Alaska Airlines’ $1 billion purchase of Hawaiian Airlines gets Biden administration nod

The decision to clear the way for the airlines to merge stands in contrast to the administration’s opposition to previous deals. The DOJ...

18.09.2024 3

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Boeing considers temporary layoffs to save cash during strike

Boeing says it's considering temporary layoffs to save cash during the strike by machinists

17.09.2024 10

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Boeing machinists vote to strike after 95% reject contract with a 25% pay increase

The strike by 33,000 machinists was set to begin at one minute after midnight Friday morning.

13.09.2024 3

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New Boeing CEO makes last ditch appeal to stop strike as workers vote on unloved contract with 25% pay raise

Although the bargaining committee that negotiated the contract recommended ratification, IAM District 751 President Jon Holden predicted earlier...

12.09.2024 1

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Southwest shakes up board but doesn’t fire CEO under pressure from Paul Singer’s activist hedge fund

Southwest said Tuesday that six directors will leave the board in November and it plans to appoint four new ones, who could include candidates put...

10.09.2024 1

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Boeing’s new CEO spent his first day walking a factory floor

Robert “Kelly” Ortberg is planting a symbolic flag in the ground back in the Pacific Northwest.

09.08.2024 6

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FAA has doubled the cases it has opened against Boeing since the door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines 737 Max

The increase in cases was disclosed Wednesday during a National Transportation Safety Board hearing into the accident, which happened during an...

08.08.2024 2

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Boeing workers say they were pushed to do jobs they weren’t qualified for on door plug that blew off Alaska Airlines jet

A Boeing worker at the factory in Renton, Wash. said Boeing's safety culture is “garbage. Nobody's accountable.”

07.08.2024 10

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‘It was chaos’—Alaska Airlines co-pilot describes ‘explosive experience’ during Boeing jet fiasco

Federal investigators began questioning officials from Boeing and its key supplier on Tuesday to understand how the Jan. 5 accident occurred.

06.08.2024 1

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‘Are jurors going to see this as negligence or something worse?’ Boeing hearings underway for the 737 Max door plug blowout

The NTSB's two-day hearing revolves around the Jan. 5 accident that left a gaping hole in the side of an Alaska Airlines jet.

06.08.2024 1

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Meet Robert ‘Kelly’ Ortberg, Boeing’s next CEO and the man responsible for turning around the beleaguered aerospace giant

“He is a deeply respected leader in the aerospace industry, and brings more hope for a better future than the company has enjoyed in decades,” said...

31.07.2024 2

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Boeing pleads guilty to fraud in fatal 737 Max crashes, fined $243.6 million

The deal must be approved by a judge and would require Boeing to invest at least $455 million in new compliance systems.

25.07.2024 2

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Delta still hasn’t totally recovered from the CrowdStrike outage—and Pete Buttigieg wants to know why

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke to Delta CEO Ed Bastian about the airline’s high number of cancellations.

23.07.2024 2

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Phishing attempts rise as scam artists try to exploit the CrowdStrike global tech outage

“We know that adversaries and bad actors will try to exploit events like this,” CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said.

21.07.2024 2

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