It’s been a good news/bad news kind of week for Virgin America. (UPDATE – it’s all bad news now. The application has been rejected. See bottom of this post for more.)
On Friday, the airline officially passed the FAA’s airline certification review, so it’s now considered fit to fly. You’d … Read the post
Category: Government Regulation
It sounds like some bad news is on the horizon for all the potential airline mergers out there. Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN) has publicly come out against all major airline mergers. Normally, that wouldn’t matter, but Oberstar is the next chairman of the House Committee on Commerce and Transportation, so … Read the post
There’s something about the airline industry that acts as a lightning rod for taxation. Need to solve the world’s problems? Well, let’s just tax commercial aviation. Seriously. Earlier this year, several European countries decided it would be a good idea to tax aviation in order to solve the AIDS, malaria, … Read the post
For those who live in the city of Dallas, today was a good day. It marked the first day you could buy a ticket for flights from Dallas/Love Field to 28 new destinations nationwide on Southwest.
For a rundown on the Wright Amendment, go here… Read the post
Late last week, the US and the European Union (EU) came to a temporary agreement allowing the US access to passenger data flights coming from the EU to the US.
You may remember my previous post on this back at the end of August. The … Read the post
In this recent conversation on the Today in the Sky blog, I mentioned something about the perimeter rule at New York’s LaGuardia airport. I realize that a lot of people have probably never even heard of this thing, so I’ve decided to devote a post to it.