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Aircell, the company that provides Internet service on airlines under the Gogo brand, is changing its name to Gogo.

The Associated Press reports that a recent study showed that one in five airline pilots lives at least 750 miles from work, raising concerns that long commutes to airports could lead to fatigue in the cockpit.

Airlines are being told that terrorists are considering surgically implanting explosive devices into humans for terrorist attacks.

TRAVEL firms are big pushers of new technology when it helps to get more customers through their doors and lower their costs. Buy tickets online? No problem. Check in online? Even better. These days with some airlines you don’t even need to print out a boarding pass, as it can be sent directly to your phone.

WFAA-TV (Channel 8) has posted the radio communication to air traffic controllers from Southwest Airlines Flight 812, which developed a hole midflight in April.

Bombardier Aerospace announced today that one of its own, James Hoblyn, passed away on July 3. Hoblyn served as President, Bombardier Customer Services & Specialized and Amphibious Aircraft.

The Transportation Security Administration government has warned airlines that terrorists are considering surgically implanting explosives in people to circumvent screening procedures, U.S. officials told the Los Angeles Times.

There’s no small amount of irony in the fact that Rockwell Collins announced it’s new “One Touch Safe Mode,” button at the Paris Air Show this week … at least it was ironic to me.

Chuck Magill, Southwest Airlines vice president of flight operations, has recorded an apology to everyone for the comments of one Southwest captain, unnamed yet famous for what he said over an open mike during a March 25 flight.

Chuck Magill, Southwest Airlines vice president of flight operations, has recorded an apology to everyone for the comments of one Southwest captain, unnamed yet famous for what he said over an open mike during a March 25 flight.

MOST airplane accidents are survivable. But when we think about plane crashes, we don't usually think about smoky cabins and emergency landings. We think about fireballs and deaths and mangled wreckage. 

Air Moldova was founded in 1993 and is based in Chişinău, Moldova. When the airline first started operations, it was a unit of Aeroflot, Russia’s governmental airline. At first, the airline operated with old Russian aircraft: the Tupelov TU-154, TU-134, and Yakovlev Yak-42s.

WE FLYERS are a fickle bunch. Although happier with North America's main airlines for a second consecutive year, we're still not as happy as we were before the recession, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2011 North America Airline Satisfaction Study. The reason: high fares and fees. Indeed, passengers' satisfaction with costs on traditional network carriers dropped from 582/1000 to an all-time low of 555. 

When I got out of college, I was supposed to be a stock broker for Merrill Lynch.  The market wasn't really in great shape when I got out of school, so I redirected.