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Boeing’s 747 Should Have Been Retired Years Ago
The 1,574th and final 747, which rolled off Boeing’s production line in Everett, Washington, on January 31, is destined for…
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ADS-B Exchange, the Flight Tracker That Powered @ElonJet, Sold to Jetnet
“There’s countries we can’t go to anymore,” Stanford says of himself and a core team of administrators. In recent years,…
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Airlines and Cattle Farmers Have Beef With Google’s Climate Math
Flying premium from San Francisco to Los Angeles, a common trip for some Californians, could generate 101 kilograms of carbon…
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The FAA NOTAM Outage Lays Bare an Essential System Everyone Hates
The United States Federal Aviation Administration today halted flights taking off across the country beginning early this morning and continuing…
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The Holiday Travel Blob Has Begun
There was something curious about the US Transportation Security Administration’s data on passenger traffic at airports last month. The Sunday…
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In Russia, Western Planes Are Falling Apart
An Airbus A320-232 with the tail number YU-APH made its first flight on December 13, 2005. Since then, the aircraft…
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Airfare Prediction Algorithms Are Going Haywire
But the uneasy pandemic years have made all of this more complicated. Oren Etzioni is now the CEO of the…
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Airfare Tools Are Struggling to Predict Plane Ticket Prices
But the uneasy pandemic years have made all of this more complicated. Oren Etzioni is now the CEO of the…
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Think Airport Crowding Is Bad Now? Wait ’Til Summer
The appetite to travel again after more than two years of lockdowns and mask mandate debates has yielded one completely…
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Thousands of Planes Are Flying Empty and No One Can Stop Them
In December 2021, 27,591 aircraft took off or landed at Frankfurt airport—890 every day. But this winter, many of them…
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