Government Regulation
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Boeing is In Regulatory Hell, Struggling to Deliver New Aircraft
The 737 MAX certification travesty quite literally has left blood on the hands of both Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),…
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3 Links I Love: No Shutdown, China Inches Closer, Avianca Wins the Race
This Week’s Featured Link President Biden Announces New Actions to Protect Americans Against the Delta and Omicron Variants as We Battle COVID-19 this Winter…
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How Competitive are New York and Boston for Air Travel?
With the DOJ lawsuit to stop the American/JetBlue Northeast Alliance (NEA) coming down last week, I started playing with all sorts of…
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DOJ Has Few Good Arguments, Odd Timing As It Sues to Block American, JetBlue Alliance
The long-rumored court action is finally here. Months ago, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that the US Department of Justice…
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The US Government and Airlines Are Doing Their Best to Ensure Travel Won’t Recover Soon
In the last couple weeks, two things happened that made me look even closer at COVID air travel rules than ever before.…
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Yes More Furloughs are Coming, No Don’t Bail The Airlines Out Again
We are now less than 60 days from the expiration of the government’s Payroll Support Program (PSP) version 2.0, and that means…
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How President Biden’s DOT and Congress Can Save the Airline Industry Without Spending Another Dime (Guest Post)
Happy inauguration day, everyone. Even though this year’s was clearly upstaged by… the existence of indoguration day, it remains one of the…
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DOT Allows American and JetBlue to Coordinate Schedules in a Landmark Deal
Note: I’m moving my Thursday post up to Wednesday this week, just because I really want to talk about this and don’t…
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Why Mexico Likely Hates the Idea of COVID Testing for International Travel to the US
While vaccines are the ultimate way to get travel moving again, there has been a whole lot of talk about just how…
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Money May Be Flowing, But This Government Stimulus Isn’t a Great Plan
Almost since the first government stimulus passed earlier this year, airlines have been begging for an extension. They knew without question fairly…
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Despite Mass Airline Layoffs Looming, the Feds Should Stop Funneling Money Into Airlines
We are now less than two months away from key CARES Act provisions expiring at the end of September, and that means…
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Death of the Airline Industry Delayed
For once, there is a delay in the airline industry that nearly everyone is happy about. After much haggling with the Department…