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Last Updated: Saturday, May 31, 2025, 5:14 PM PDT
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Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
Inside United’s ‘Game-Changing’ Flight Attendant Deal: Raises, Retro Pay, and Hotel Upgrades
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: Regional leaders of the United Airlines flight attendant union have unanimously voted to endorse a ‘historic’ new tentative bargaining agreement following two days of in-depth meetings to scrutinize the deal and decide whether it was good enough to put to a formal vote of 28,000 members.
EASA steps up push to tackle lithium battery risks on commercial flights
By aerospaceglobalnews.com: The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued a fresh warning to the airline industry over the dangers posed by lithium batteries in air travel, following a noticeable rise in related safety incidents.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
Avelo Airlines Accused of Repainting Planes All White to Hide Controversial Deportation Flights For ICE
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: Avelo Airlines, the Houston-based low-cost airline that recently took on a controversial deportation contract with the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, is repainting the planes used to transport detainees all-white.
Airways Magazine
The History of Southern California’s Los Angeles International Airport
By Airways Magazine: With an area of nearly 3,000 acres being used for airport operations, LAX has grown to vastly dwarf the site it once occupied.
Aviation Week
• Angus Batey
Why Future-Flight Startups Fail and How They Can Avoid It
By Aviation Week: Many well-funded aviation startups have struggled to deliver the breakthrough technologies they were set up to develop. Why is that?.
Flying Magazine
• Jack Daleo
FAA Reviews Part 108 and Section 2209 Rules to Expand U.S. Commercial Drone Operations
By Flying Magazine: Part 108 and Section 2209 drone regulations aim to allow commercial services to flourish without sacrificing security.
Breitflyte
• Joe Breitfeller
Avianca Inaugurates New Direct Service Between Bogotá and Dallas
By Breitflyte: Avianca has launched new nonstop service between Bogotá and Dallas-Fort Worth. The route will now operate four times weekly with a 180-seat Airbus A320, providing over 1,400 seats per week.
