The Fight over Spirit Airlines’ Future
Last week, Spirit, a budget airline carrier, cancelled all flights and announced that the airline would be shut down. The airline, originally one of the most profitable in the country, struggled to maintain its profitability amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and had filed for bankruptcy. The recent increase in gas prices due to the U.S.-Israel war on […]
Boeing Near-Disaster
On January 5, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 nearly crashed when a door plug, a critical component designed to seal unused exit doors, ripped away from the fuselage. Fortunately, no one was injured, and the flight landed safely. Subsequent inspections of United Airlines’ aircraft revealed bolts too loose to hold door plugs on […]
Air Traffic Controllers Warn The Sky is Not Safe
Every day we are getting closer to a major air disaster. In recent years, the number of close calls of an airport accident has increased dramatically. In the last year alone there were 300 events in which two commercial airliners almost collided. Just one of these could cost the lives of countless people. The reason […]
Southwest Airlines’ Cancellation Nightmare
It would be easy to blame the massive and deadly storm that blanketed the entire middle of the nation for the debacle that resulted at Southwest during the days before and after Christmas 2022. Certainly, it was the storm that prevented the first Southwest flights from taking off. But after that, we can place the […]