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18.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Airlines won't pay you $775 for delays anymore. Trump scrapped that rule.
Reason:
"Unnecessary regulatory burdens."
18 senators protested. Airlines cheered.
Meanwhile, Europe, Canada, and Brazil still pay passengers for delays.
18.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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17.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Southwest's wheelchair passengers no longer have priority boarding.
But the real hack remains:
Requesting wheelchair assistance lets you skip security lines & cut immigration queues.
"Jetbridge Jesus" passengers — miraculously healed upon landing — live on!
17.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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12.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pay extra for a window seat? Millions did — and got solid walls instead!
United Airlines faces lawsuit over windowless "window seats".
Airline claims label describes position, not guaranteed view.
Delta faces a similar lawsuit.
12.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An aviation newsletter for busy AvGeeks
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10.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
India's Supreme Court questions pilot-error claim in Air India crash.
Engines' fuel switches mysteriously shifted to "CUTOFF" after takeoff.
Court demands probe into whether:
• spring-loaded switches failed, or
• cockpit design enabled fatal error
10.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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07.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Airlines can now settle bills in yuan.
IATA's clearing house adds Chinese currency to seven others.
Cuts costs for Chinese airlines, simplifies cross-border transactions.
China's aviation influence expands.
07.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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06.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FAA cuts flights by 10% because controllers aren't showing up for their *unpaid* shifts.
Shutdown's at day 36.
3.2 million passengers already delayed.
Major airports missing up to 40% of controllers.
Can't really blame the controllers tho.
06.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An aviation newsletter for busy AvGeeks
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05.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Mystery cargo plane visits Latin America.
Nobody knows what's inside.
A Russian Il-76 lands in Caracas, Havana, Managua, carrying up to 46 tons of SOMETHING.
The operator? Aviacon Zitotrans — banned by the West for hauling military cargo.
05.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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04.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Goodbye purple. Hello red and blue.
Delta's new uniforms launch 2027.
Designed with crew feedback.
Made by Lands' End.
Scarves by Missoni.
The wrap dress even makes a comeback.
04.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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03.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Air traffic controllers forced to moonlight as restaurant servers & Uber drivers between shifts.
13,000 controllers are working without pay, thanks to the government shutdown.
Airlines beg Congress to end it before the holidays.
03.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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31.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Airlines deliver free meals to unpaid air traffic controllers.
Government shutdown means no paychecks, but controllers still report for duty.
As Congress stalls on funding...
United, Delta, and JetBlue step up to feed the people preventing mid-air collisions.
31.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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29.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
India builds Russian jets domestically for the first time since 1988.
The story:
Hindustan Aeronautics signed an MoU with Russia’s UAC.
The goal: Produce the Sukhoi Superjet 100 in India.
To meet the demand for 200+ regional aircraft over the next decade.
29.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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28.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vilnius Airport in Lithuania closed four times in one week. Balloons from Belarus carrying cigarettes keep disrupting air traffic...
Lithuania's response:
Shoot them down. Seal the border.
Who knew cigarette smuggling could ground an entire airport?
28.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An aviation newsletter for busy AvGeeks
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27.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Passenger bites into toxic weed served in Delta first-class salad...
Gets poisoned mid-flight from Chicago to Seattle.
Flight attendant seized the evidence, called it "Delta's property."
Delta's compensation offer: 3,000 SkyMiles.
27.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Every weekday, I deliver bite-sized aviation updates — in 33 words or less.
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24.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
