The National Transportation Safety Board released formal safety recommendations as an outcome of its investigation of two fatal Boeing 737 Max hull losses.
The report calls for significant changes in how the Federal Aviation Administration evaluates a new aircraft for certification, stating that the agency was not taking variances in pilot behavior fully into consideration and stating that the tests used to initially certify an aircraft to carry passengers were unrealistic.
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Volkswagen AG Chairman Hans Dieter Pötsch, VW CEO Herbert Diess, and former VW CEO Martin Winterkornwere charged with misleading shareholders in the months that preceded the 2015 Dieselgate emissions-cheating scandal.
The Staatsanwaltschaft, or state prosecutor, in Braunschweig is said the executives withheld information about the scandal from shareholders in an effort to prop up the Wolfsburg automaker’s share price.
The indictment of the current chairman and CEO is a blow to the …
American Express said it plans to add trip cancellation and interruption insurance on some of its charge cards.
The new benefits will be available to holders of seven American Express cards including the Platinum and Business Platinum cards, the Delta Reserve and Delta Reserve for Business cards, and the American Express Corporate Platinum card.
Benefits go into effect on January 1, 2020 and are applicable to round-trip flights booked entirely with an …
Corporate charge card issuer Brex announced on Tuesday a partnership with JetBlue Airways.
The partnership will allow Brex charge card holders to transfer points from their Brex corporate cards to their JetBlue TrueBlue frequent-flyer program accounts. Brex will award the five Brex cardholders who transfer the most Brex Points to the TrueBlue program by October 24, 2019, each a pair of round-trip tickets on the New York-based airline.
The move follows an …
JetBlue Airways announced that its first Airbus A321neo entered service on Tuesday.
The A321neo has a longer range and higher fuel capacity than the carrier’s other planes. JetBlue took delivery of the aircraft in the spring and it went into operation as Flight 1 on the airline’s New York-Fort Lauderdale route, the airline’s first revenue route when it commenced operations on February 11, 2000. The first A321neo is named “David Neeleman” …
The elimination of multiple travel-related benefits that Citibank announced in June went into effect on Sunday, at the same time the bank announced support for converting Citi Double Cash rewards into Citi ThankYou points.
The country’s third largest bank no longer covers car rental insurance, trip cancellation insurance, worldwide accident insurance, trip delay protection, baggage delay protection, and medical evacuation assistance, along with several other non-travel benefits.
Other benefits the bank discontinued …
British Airways said it was reinstating more than half of its normal flight schedule for September 27 after pilots at the airline called off a threatened strike.
The British Airline Pilots Association called off the planned job action following a two-day strike last week.
That strike “demonstrated the anger and resolve of pilots,” the union said in a statement, adding that that it’s “now time for a period of reflection before the …