Bob Jordan, CEO of Southwest Airlines, answers questions on investor day last September. The carrier has invested huge in IT over the past two years. (Photo by Sam Hodde) The Washington Post via Getty Images If you flew Southwest Airlines last year, your flight was less likely to be canceled than if you had chosen […]
Two crew members of the Australian airline Virgin Australia were allegedly raped and robbed in the Fijian city of Nadi during a night out in the early hours of News Year’s Day. Fiji’s Acting Commissioner of Police Juki Fong Chew confirmed police were investigating the incidents involving the crew members, a man and a woman, who […]
South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok has ordered the transport ministry to carry out an emergency safety inspection of the country’s airline operation system, local news agency Yonhap reported Monday. Choi was speaking at a disaster control meeting in Seoul, after a Jeju Air flight crashed at the country’s Muan International Airport on Sunday, leading […]
Azerbaijan Airlines says the preliminary results of an investigation into the crash of its plane in Kazakhstan on 25 December have blamed “physical and technical external interference”. Thirty-eight people died when the Embraer jet came down at high speed, bursting into flames 3km (1.9 miles) short of the runway at Aktau airport. The plane had […]
Spirit Stock Spikes After the Budget Airline Says It Will Lay Off Staff and Sell Jets
