Photo: Alexander Hassenstein (Getty Images) When airlines are in serious financial trouble, they start furloughing pilots. Airbus is working to transform the desperate measure of reducing operations costs into a …
Photo: Anna Zvereva / Wikimedia Commons Turbine jet-powered airplanes are the highest maintenance vehicles on the planes, so being cut off from the necessary firehose of spare parts will have …
Spirit Airlines has filed for bankruptcy protection amid mounting losses and stiff competition from rival budget airlines. The American carrier has lost billions since the Covid-19 pandemic and will now …
Photo: Jason Redmond / AFP (Getty Images) Believe it or not, commercial planes aren’t designed to collide with anything except adorably aloof birds at both 575 miles per hour while …
Clapping when a flight lands may be a fading tradition, but it’s fully deserved some days. Passengers on a Frontier Airlines flight certainly had a reason for applause on Saturday …
Planes don’t bend that way. Image: 6abc Philadelphia via YouTube Airports might seem like organized chaos at times, but believe it or not there’s a careful choreography going on to …
Screenshot: Enes Yilmazer on YouTube If you want to buy this airplane (or one like it) and travel in the lap of luxury, it’ll cost you at least $80,000,000. The …
This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. This is the most important moment in the life of an airliner: when the new owner signs …
Photo: Katie Dobies (iStock by Getty Images) The federal government banned smoking on all commercial flights 24 years ago, but airlines are still required to fit “no smoking” signs on …
Modern passenger planes are pretty impressive machines. They carry hundreds of people for thousands of miles, pack in luxury trimmings like showers and can even hit supersonic speeds in the …