Captain Beverley Bass will never forget that moment, 20 years ago. She was piloting American Airlines Flight 49 from Paris to Dallas over the North Atlantic when the news came across an air-to-air frequency: Airplanes had hit each of twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in a terrorist attack. Soon […]
The aviation industry is showing more signs that it’s serious about fighting climate change by replacing conventional fuel with cleaner-burning, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). On Tuesday, Delta Air Lines announced an agreement with Chevron for the energy company to manufacture an SAF test batch and sell it to the Atlanta-based carrier. Delta’s goal is to […]
U.S. commercial airline pilots and crew have been making history as they fly thousands of passengers who were at risk in Afghanistan to new lives in the United States. As part of the U.S. military pullout ending the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon announced on August 22 it had activated the Civil Reserve […]
