Tag: Air Travel

Boeing reported an overall first quarter revenue of $23 billion, a six percent increase over 2017 first quarter earnings.

Boeing nabs $1.4 billion jet order from Germany’s Lufthansa

Joe Williams · May 8, 2018 4:08 pm

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt appears before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Capitol Hill on May 16, 2018.

Energy and Environment

EPA justifies Scott Pruitt’s first-class travel, says flying coach would ‘endanger his life’

Josh Siegel · May 8, 2018 12:34 am

Armed Services Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., speaks.

National Security

Adam Smith wants a national commission on deadly military aircraft crashes

Travis J. Tritten · May 7, 2018 6:54 pm

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders talks to reporters during the daily press briefing in the Brady press briefing room at the White House.

China’s push on US airlines rebuked as ‘Orwellian nonsense’ by White House

Diana Stancy Correll · May 5, 2018 7:19 pm

Former Obama White House press secretary Josh Earnest waves at the conclusion of a forum.

Obama spokesman Josh Earnest takes top communications job for United Airlines

Anna Giaritelli · May 3, 2018 3:45 pm

Southwest Airlines expects bookings to decline in the aftermath of an accident that led to a passenger's death in April.

Southwest diverts plane due to broken window

Joe Williams · May 2, 2018 4:47 pm

President Donald Trump meets with crew and passengers of Southwest Airlines Flight 1380, including pilot Tammie Jo Shults, third from left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 1, 2018.

Trump praises pilot, crew from fatal Southwest flight

Melissa Quinn · May 1, 2018 6:50 pm

Panasonic pays $137 million over criminal claims in airline deals

James Langford · April 30, 2018 9:04 pm

Southwest Airlines employees crowd around a newly unveiled plane paint color scheme during an event at Love Field Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, in Dallas. The change comes in a year during which 43-year-old Southwest has begun international flights, expanded in New York and Washington, and is freed from longtime government limits on its Dallas schedule. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Southwest passenger sues airline over deadly mid-air engine failure

Joe Williams · April 27, 2018 9:55 pm

The FAA will also require 2 controllers in the tower.

House approves FAA bill with new consumer and safety reforms

Susan Ferrechio · April 27, 2018 3:37 pm

Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a 26-year-old senior at the University of California-Berkeley, was taken off a flight on April 6 for speaking Arabic on the plane. (AP Photo)

Southwest accelerates inspection of fan blades in fatal engine failure

Joe Williams · April 26, 2018 5:55 pm

Energy and Environment

Republican offers EPA’s Scott Pruitt the ‘party jet’ defense

John Siciliano · April 26, 2018 3:13 pm