Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 operating Las Vegas (Harry Reid) to Reno suffered an emergency during takeoff when a cockpit display screen fell and struck the captain, leaving him incapacitated. The event occurred in the initial ascent, and the incident is now subject to investigation.
Skift
• Peden Doma Bhutia
By Skift: India's already-weak inbound tourism is estimated to go down 15-20% this year as the Iran War severs aviation corridors.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: American Airlines will soon start scoring flight attendants on how well they serve customers, alongside a slew of other metrics that could create some significant friction between front-line workers and management at the Texas-based carrier.
PaxEx.Aero
• Seth Miller
By PaxEx.Aero: A new customer, new antenna hardware, and new progress on a slightly stalled deployment are all highlights from Hughes Networks' IFC program in recent weeks.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
By FlightGlobal: Airbus is intending to introduce additional information on managing approach and flare for A321s in an upcoming revision of the flight crew manuals.
ch-aviation
• Hilka Birns
By ch-aviation: Nigerian airlines may be losing more than NGN8 billion naira (USD6 million) annually due to the underutilisation of aircraft as operational and infrastructure constraints limit flying hours, according to an investigation by the newspaper This Day.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
By FlightGlobal: Romanian investigators have detailed a serious incident in which an Airbus A319 had to execute a terrain-avoidance manoeuvre after drifting substantially off its planned flightpath en route to Bacau.
Reuters
• Joanna Plucinska, Kate Abnett
By Reuters: The rise in jet fuel prices has increased the average fuel cost by $104 for each passenger on long-haul flights leaving Europe, campaign group Transport & Environment said.
