Airlines

No one wants to bust a company tradition, especially one that’s held fast for decades. Dallas-based Southwest Airlines has a couple of well-known ones. Prominently, the airline has remained profitable for each of the 49 years the company has been in business. Another is that Southwest Airlines has never involuntarily furloughed an employee during that […]

The cover story in The New York Times magazine for September 22, 2019, was entitled, “What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max?” The writer, William Langewiesche—son of the sainted author of Stick and Rudder, Wolfgang Langewiesche—is a veteran of Flying, an experienced pilot, and a thorough and technically savvy researcher of his wide-ranging articles […]

A handful of aviation industry experts believe the social and economic fallout in the US from the COVID-19 virus is the worst seen since the market crash of 2008, others since 9/11, while still others say the airline service cutbacks and employee layoffs are simply unprecedented. Calling the current situation dynamic would be an understatement. […]

ATP and SkyWest Airlines have enhanced their tuition reimbursement program, which provides financial assistance to qualifying students with its Airline Pilot Hiring Partnership. Candidates enrolled in the training organization’s Airline Career Pilot Program can now receive up to $17,500 in assistance and take advantage of the partnership’s fast track from graduation to employment. The Jacksonville, […]

The U.S. Department of Transportation passed the Airline Deregulation Act in 1978, which gave air carriers freedom to determine which markets to serve domestically and what fares to charge for that service. To address the concern that small communities previously served by certificated air carriers before airline deregulation maintain a minimal level of scheduled air […]