Articles tagged “faa”

Allegiant Air is another low-cost carrier struggling to build a positive image in the U.S.

It's nice that the FAA expects consolidation to have eliminated all the problems in U.S. aviation. But history has shown that the reality for these companies is usually more complicated, for a variety of reasons including corporate greed and geopolitical tension.

While automatically seating families together onboard U.S. airplanes sounds good in theory, it will be next to impossible to implement because of the nature of how airlines assign seats and charge for preferred access to their best seats based on yield management.

Republican lawmakers are gearing up to privatize air traffic control in the U.S., and the latest report gives them more ammunition for the upcoming battle.

In a related story, today our in-laws arrived 30 minutes before schedule even though the flight was the same length of time it's always been. It must easy to improve on-time numbers when you pad the schedule.

The U.S. government needs to better regulate unmanned drones before a drone collision brings down a commercial airliner.

Improvements to aviation infrastructure are necessary if the U.S. plans to stay at the lead. It's simply a matter of who will pay.

JetBlue was the only airline to shut down operations in Boston and New York for an extended period. With customers facing endless waits at the airports and on the phones, did JetBlue make any errors in its preparations or response to the situation over the weekend and its aftermath? You weren't hearing any such admissions today.

The new FAA rules on pilot rest could lead to more flight delays and cancellations, but ensuring that pilots in the cockpit aren't nodding off because they are excessively tired is sensible and worth it.

We like it when these people make headlines.