Delta introduces enhanced requirements for customers traveling with service or support animals effective March 1

Delta Air Lines is taking steps to further protect its customers, employees and service and support animals by implementing advance documentation requirements for those animals. This comes as a result of a lack of regulation that has led to serious safety risks involving untrained animals in flight. The new requirements support Delta’s top priority of ensuring safety for its customers, employees and trained service and support animals, while supporting the rights of customers with legitimate… (news.delta.com) More...

Pilot Report: Bombardier’s C Series Sets New Standard

Bombardier’s C Series is an iconoclast, defining a new class of passenger jets that defies traditional classification as either regional or transcontinental airliners because of its size, range and operating costs. The C Series is a clear departure not only from Bombardier’s successful CRJ family of regional jets but also from the 100-115-seat, 1,500-2,400-nm-range BRJ-X that the Montreal-based company abandoned in 2000 when it was confronted with stiff competition from Embraer’s new E-jets as… (aviationweek.com) More...

Trump attacks F-35 maker for 'out of control' costs

Here we go again. Donald Trump has tweeted another critique about a major defense company -- and the stock immediately fell. Trump tweeted Monday morning that "the F-35 program and cost is out of control. Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20th." Shares of Lockheed Martin (LMT), which makes the F-35 fighting jets, plunged 4% following Trump's tweet. (money.cnn.com) More...

AIRLINE PILOT CAUGHT SWEARING ABOUT THE BAY AREA | Hot Mic at San Jose

AIRLINE PILOT CAUGHT SWEARING ABOUT THE BAY AREA | Hot Mic at San Jose CW: Language (www.youtube.com) More...

United Airlines flies woman to San Francisco instead of France

United Airlines has found itself apologizing yet again, this time for sending a French woman on a 3,000-mile trip in the wrong direction. Lucie Bahetoukilae was recently scheduled to fly from Newark, N.J., to Paris, but instead found herself flying to San Francisco after she was inadvertently allowed to board the wrong plane, reports WABC. According to Bahetoukilae, who speaks only French and allowed her niece to speak on her behalf, the airline changed the flight’s gate at the last minute, and… (www.foxnews.com) More...

Report on MH370 finds 'initially similar' route on pilot's flight simulator

The captain of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft that vanished somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean with 239 people on board had flown a route on his home flight simulator six weeks earlier that was “initially similar” to the one actually taken, Australian authorities said on Tuesday. The details were contained in a 440-page final report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) on the unsuccessful search for flight MH370. (uk.reuters.com) More...

Chicago Aviation security officer fired over passenger dragging sues city, United Airlines

A Chicago aviation security officer fired after forcibly removing a passenger from a United Airlines flight last year is suing the airline and his former employer, according to court documents. James Long, a former security officer for the Chicago Department of Aviation, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the department, its commissioner, Ginger Evans, and United for a broad range of claims related to his firing. (www.chicagotribune.com) More...

Delta pays out $1.1 billion in profit sharing to employees

Delta Air Lines is paying out $1.1 billion in profit sharing to its employees, including more than $392 million to its employees in metro Atlanta. The Feb. 14 Delta profit sharing payout is smaller than the airline’s $1.5 billion payout last year with $541 million going to local employees, but will still make a significant impact on the local economy in Atlanta and other cities where Delta has large hubs, according to the company. (www.ajc.com) More...

Boeing CEO vows to keep Air Force One costs below $4 billion

The heads of Boeing and Lockheed Martin emerged from meetings with President-elect Trump vowing to rein in the costs of new Air Force Ones and the nation's premier fighter jet. Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg left the meeting at Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate Wednesday to say one topic had been the $4 billion price tag cited by Trump for two new Air Force One jets. (money.cnn.com) More...

OHP releases names in plane crash; Vance AFB reports air show will continue as scheduled Saturday

ENID, Okla. — Two men killed flying a biplane crash Thursday evening have been identified by Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Randell "Randy" Lee Harris, 55, was piloting a 1993 Runyan S/Harris R Skybolt 300 with Air Force 1st Lt. Dale Bryan Shillington, 25, riding along when he lost control of the aircraft, around 6:40 p.m., an OHP report states. (www.enidnews.com) More...