Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
A Dallas Fort Worth International Airport air traffic controller paid tribute to the pilots of Spirit Airlines flight NK-1833 from Detroit, after realizing it would be the last-ever landing by the ultra-low-cost carrier. The action followed Spirit’s liquidation early Saturday.
Skift
• Jay Shabat, Meghna Maharishi, Seth Borko
By Skift: Airlines The End of Spirit Airlines: Live Analysis Meghna Maharishi , Jay Shabat , and Seth Borko May 1st, 2026 at 3:28 PM EDT Skift Take The end of Spirit may not be the end of an era so much as the beginning of a reckoning.
APEX
• Joshua Kupietzky
By APEX: Alaska Airlines has launched a new premium Suites check-in in Seattle as premium airport service becomes a key competitive battleground.
time.com
• Chantelle Lee
By time.com: The partial government shutdown ended this week, but the toll it has taken on the TSA may still be felt for months to come, experts have warned.
AINonline
• Curt Epstein
By AINonline: Measure could spur further growth in the SAF industry.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
By FlightGlobal: Airline warned it faces revocation of certificate if corrections are not implemented. Russian federal air transport regulator Rosaviatsia has restricted the air operator’s certificate of carrier Izhavia after an inspection of its activities.
Flying Magazine
• Meg Godlewski
By Flying Magazine: Hop-A-Jet president Barry Ellis talks about what the company learned from the crash.
AINonline
• Kerry Lynch
By AINonline: Middle East operations still off significantly but global activity is ahead of 2025.
FlightGlobal
• Jon Hemmerdinger
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
