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Southwest Airlines gets $11M break after fines for 2022 meltdown
Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Southwest Airlines will not have to pay the final $11 million portion of a record civil penalty tied to its 2022 holiday meltdown, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday. Transportation officials in 2023 had fined…
Air Transat: Canadia airline to halt flights ahead of strike - BBC News
Image source, LightRocket via Getty Images Air Transat, one of Canada's largest airlines, said it will start gradually suspending some flights starting on Monday ahead of a planned strike. The union representing the airline's pilots issued a…
India regulator faults airline CEO amid severe disruption
Indian regulators held IndiGo's chief executive accountable for the severe disruptions that have roiled the country's biggest airline in recent days, faulting the company for “significant lapses in planning, oversight and resource…
Government waives part of a Biden-era fine against Southwest Airlines
The U.S. Department of Transportation is waiving part of a fine assessed against Southwest Airlines after the company canceled thousands of flights during a winter storm in 2022. Under a 2023 settlement reached by the Biden administration…
How India's Top Airline Unraveled in Quest For Higher Profit
It was the straw that broke the highly-optimized camel's back. Sometime in the evening of Dec. 2, three days before India's largest airline would lose control of its operations in one of the country's worst aviation disruptions, IndiGo executives…
Southwest Airlines is finally done paying a record-breaking fine for its spectacular 2022 Christmas holiday collapse
The Trump administration has forgiven the last of a record-breaking fine against Southwest Airlines. Southwest was fined $140 million for a 2022 meltdown that led to the cancellation of 17,000 flights. The Transportation Department said the…
Riyadh Air and IBM Partner to Launch World's First AI-Native Airline
Riyadh Air's AI‑powered operations create agility across the business and unify employee and guest experiences, setting a new benchmark in aviation RIYADH, Saudi Arabia and ARMONK, N.Y., Dec. 8, 2025 /CNW/ -- At IBM Think Riyadh 2025, IBM…
IndiGo chaos: Why is India's largest airline canceling hundreds of flights?
Air travel across India has been in chaos in the past week after the country's largest airline, IndiGo, cancelled more than 2,000 flights starting on Friday, stranding thousands of passengers at airports across the country. The airline, which…
How India's top airline unravelled in quest for higher profit
MUMBAI – It was the straw that broke the highly optimised camel's back. Sometime in the evening of Dec 2, three days before in one of the country's worst aviation disruptions, IndiGo executives noticed that a technology glitch in its…
DC Edit | Airlines Need To Follow The Rules, Or Face Strict Action
India's civil aviation was brought near enough to the point of total collapse thanks to an intransigent arm of a virtual duopoly holding a gun to the head of a lethargic government bureaucracy in the wake of a more liberal roster made mandatory for…
Is Porter Airlines Going to Join the oneworld Airline Alliance?
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Customer Service And CX Trends Predictions (Part One)
Customer Service and Customer Experience Predictions for 2026 Welcome to my annual article featuring customer service and customer experience (CX) trends and predictions. This year is another two-part article divided into two specific categories.
IndiGo: India's storied airline stumbles
IndiGo - the airline that once redefined punctuality and scale in India - cancelled hundreds of flights nationwide, undone by its biggest operational crisis yet: a potent mix of misjudged pilot requirements under new rules and a risky…
Airplane Art - Japan Airlines Boeing 777-300ER on final approach to Chicago O'Hare - Economy Class & Beyond
It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some more Airplane Art. This week, we have a Japan Airlines Boeing 777-300ER on final approach to Chicago O'Hare International Airport as it completes the long trip from Tokyo. Japan Airlines operates a…
Amid IndiGo crisis, Jaspal Bhatti's old comedy sketch 'SOS Airline' resurfaces online: 'Way ahead of his time'
As the IndiGo crisis continues, an old comedy sketch from Jaspal Bhatti's iconic show Full Tension resurfaced on social media, sparking a stir over the airline's mismanagement. The decades-old clip, titled SOS Airline, has gone viral just as…
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