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A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX8 departs from San Diego International Airport to Chicago on March 4, 2025 in San Diego, California. Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty Images ARLINGTON, Texas — Southwest Airlines is considering airport lounges, more premium seating and even long-haul international flights to win over high-spending customers, CEO Bob…
The Boeing 787-9 civil jet airplane of Vietnam Airlines performs its flight display at the 51st Paris International Airshow in Le Bourget near Paris, France. (Photo by: aviation-images.com/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) aviation-images.com | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Kelly Ortberg’s first Paris Air Show as Boeing CEO was set to be relatively…
A view shows the wreckage of an Air India aircraft, bound for London’s Gatwick Airport, which crashed during take-off from an airport in Ahmedabad, India June 12, 2025. Adnan Abidi | Reuters An Air India plane that was bound for London and carrying 242 people crashed seconds after takeoff in western India on Thursday, killing…
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane bound for London with 242 people aboard crashed into a residential area Thursday moments after takeoff from Ahmedabad in western India. Video posted on social media appeared to show the jetliner descending followed by a fireball and a dark plume of smoke. It appeared to be the first fatal crash of a…
Boeing 737 aircraft fuselages are pictured at the company’s Renton factory in Renton, Washington, on April 15, 2025. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Boeing‘s gross orders for new airplanes hit 303 last month, the most since December 2023, as the company makes strides against its rival Airbus and works to stabilize production of…
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — President Donald Trump has said he wants to bolster manufacturing jobs and other technical employment in the United States. But in the aviation industry, finding skilled workers to make airplanes and engines — and maintaining those jobs for years to come — has been a struggle. The average age of a certified…
Passengers check in for Southwest Airlines flights at Chicago Midway International Airport on Feb. 18, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Set your alarm. Southwest Airlines customers have only one day to go before the company starts charging to check bags for the first time in more than half a century. Starting…
Vietnam’s General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam (R) shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron (L) at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi on May 26, 2025. (Photo by LUONG THAI LINH / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUONG THAI LINH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Luong Thai Linh | Afp |…
A Boeing 747 sits on the tarmac of Palm Beach International Airport after President Donald Trump toured the aircraft, Feb. 15, 2025. Roberto Schmidt | Afp | Getty Images The Trump administration has formally accepted a Boeing 747 jet that was gifted to the U.S. by the government of Qatar, the Pentagon said Wednesday. Defense…
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, want to make living on Mars a reality. Musk has said that his company, SpaceX, can get humans to Mars as early as 2029. Meanwhile, NASA officials have said that sending humans to Mars even by 2040 would be an “audacious” goal. China also has…
