Q: I have read that the Department of Transportation has proposed a new regulation that would require travel agencies to provide cash refunds out of their own pockets if an airline cancels or delays a flight for a long time. Is this true?
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British Airways has suspended the sale of tickets for short-haul services departing from London Heathrow Airport until Aug. 15.
Harry Reid Airport (formerly McCarran Airport) in Las Vegas set a monthly record for passenger traffic in June.
Nearly 4.7 million passengers arrived or departed during the month, a 23% increase from June 2021, according to the Clark County Department of Aviation.
Budget roundtrip domestic airfares will drop to $286 this month, 25% below this year’s peak in May, according to a Hopper projection.
The FAA is pushing back against United Airlines’ assertion that air traffic control staffing is a major factor in the ongoing struggle that carriers are having with cancellations and delays.
The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic.
Airlines that have stumbled badly over the last two holidays face their biggest test yet of whether they can handle big crowds when July 4th travelers mob the nation’s airports this weekend.
DOHA, Qatar — IATA is warning that a new FAA-backed plan in which Verizon and AT&T would deploy full 5G rollouts around all U.S. airports by July 5 of next year will be a disaster.
“Our long-term sustainability strategy at SWISS is an ambitious one that rests on multiple pillars,” explains Chief Commercial Officer Tamur Goudarzi Pour. “Along with our commitment to actively promote the use of new technologies such as solar fuel, it’s very important to us to ensure that existing means of making air travel carbon-neutral are as accessible as possible for our customers. And integrating our carbon-offset options directly into the flight booking process is an important step in doing so.”