JetBlue CEO said on March 29 that the company is forced to cut 10 percent of its New York flights due to a shortage of air traffic controllers. The budget airline’s CEO, Robin Hayes, talking to the Economic Club of New York, said that staffing in the air traffic control center that handles all inbound,…
JetBlue to Cut New York Flights Due to Understaffing in Air Traffic Positions
Short on Planes, American Will Suspend Some Flights to Spain
FORT WORTH, Texas—American Airlines said Friday that it will suspend flights between Philadelphia and Madrid for a few weeks this spring because of delays in receiving new Boeing jets that have been plagued by production problems. American said it will offer passengers on the route alternative travel arrangements in May and early June. A spokeswoman…
Coping With Connections
Today’s giant airlines—as well as many smaller ones—make their business on connections. The pervasive “hub and spoke” route system means you can fly from almost anywhere in the U.S. to almost anywhere else with one stop-and-connection at a hub. My home airport, Medford, Oregon, is typical. If I want to fly to, say, New York,…
A European Flight With Condor
Last year’s canceled flights, shortages of pilots, flight delays, deficiency of ground crews and airport personnel, endlessly slow-moving security queues and images of luggage piled sky-high, gave us plenty of reasons to reconsider our upcoming flight to Europe. It would be our first major trip following the more than two-year lockdown. But as we were…
Ed Perkins on Travel: Consumer Update
The Department of Transportation (DoT) labored mightily and came up with a—dashboard? After weeks of announcements of great consumer gains, the single positive result is a DoT “dashboard” that summarizes every line’s policy. And a few have, in fact, adopted vague no-fee family seating policies. I’ve often expressed surprise that the airlines didn’t solve the…
FAA ‘Not Required to Make Changes to Airline Seats, Sizes’: US Appeals Court
A U.S. appeals Court has rejected a request to order the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to ratify minimum requirements for seat size and spacing between airline seats. According to the ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, there is no clear and indisputable evidence that tight seating could prove dangerous to passengers, albeit being…
Consumers to Congress: Make the Airlines Shape Up
As part of the upcoming must-do bill in Congress to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration Agency, a partnership of the leading consumer advocacy organizations has given Congress a list of consumer protections that should be included. It’s a long list, but there’s nothing in it that isn’t both reasonable and necessary. As we point out—I’m…
Aviation Safety Teetering, Pilots Say, as Safety Summit Approaches
American aviation safety seems to be teetering on “a knife’s edge,” as one veteran airline pilot puts it. Usually an unflappable bunch, a half-dozen pilots told The Epoch Times they are increasingly troubled over the state of aviation. Although 14 years have passed since the last fatal U.S. commercial airliner accident, pilots point to a…
Cyberattack Worries Mar ‘Safest Decade’ in US Air Travel: Congressman
Amid talk of the “safest decade” for American air travel, a Wisconsin congressman scorched the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for shortcomings in its computer security. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) said his staff ferreted out facts about the system’s vulnerability while probing the Jan. 11 FAA computer outage that grounded flights nationwide, causing 11,000 flight disruptions….
Airlines Cancel Over 1,800 US Flights as Ice Storm Hits Multiple States
Airlines canceled over 1,800 flights in the United States on Wednesday, after an ice storm hit states from Texas to West Virginia. A total of 1,897 flights within, into, or out of the United States were canceled, while 750 flights were delayed as of 8.41 a.m. ET, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware. “This week’s winter…
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