Watch live Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun Senate testimony

Watch live Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun Senate testimony

[The stream is slated to start at 2:00 PM ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will face questions from the Senate Permanent Subcommitee on Investigations on Tuesday over quality control concerns and whistleblower allegations. Boeing’s bestselling 737 Max plane has been … Read more

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun heads to Senate hearing over safety

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun heads to Senate hearing over safety

Dave Calhoun, CEO of Boeing, leaves a meeting with Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, in Hart Building, on Wednesday, January 24, 2024. Calhoun was meeting with senators about recent safety issues including the grounding of the 737 MAX 9 planes. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will testify before … Read more

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to testify in Senate hearing June 18

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to testify in Senate hearing June 18

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun speaks briefly with reporters as he arrives for a meeting at the office of Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) on Capitol Hill January 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will testify before a Senate panel June 18 to answer lawmaker questions about whistleblower allegations … Read more

American Airlines offers flight attendants raises amid contract talks

American Airlines offers flight attendants raises amid contract talks

American Airlines flight attendants demonstrate outside the White House in Washington, May 9, 2024. Drew Angerer | AFP | Getty Images American Airlines CEO Robert Isom offered flight attendants immediate 17% wage increases on Wednesday as contract talks continue without a deal, bringing closer the prospect of a strike. The airline and the Association of … Read more

Boeing FAA safety plan is due. Here’s what to expect

Boeing FAA safety plan is due. Here’s what to expect

Boeing 737 Max 8 fuselages manufactured by Spirit Aerosystems in Wichita, Kansas are transported on a BSNF train heading west over the Bozeman Pass March 12, 2019 in Bozeman, Montana.  William Campbell | Corbis News | Getty Images Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun and other top company leaders are scheduled to meet with the Federal Aviation … Read more

Climate change behind rising flight turbulence, Transportation Sec’y Buttigieg says

Climate change behind rising flight turbulence, Transportation Sec’y Buttigieg says

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg speaks during a press briefing the day after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 27, 2024.  Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says that climate change is one of the culprits behind an increase in … Read more

Spirit Airlines gets rid of change fees, joining Frontier

Spirit Airlines gets rid of change fees, joining Frontier

A Spirit Airlines aircraft undergoes operations in preparation for departure at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on February 12, 2024 in Austin, Texas.  Brandon Bell | Getty Images Spirit Airlines is doing away with both change and cancellation fees, effective immediately, days after Frontier’s similar announcement, part of an overhaul of the country’s biggest discount carriers’ … Read more

Flying is cheaper in 2024. But not for some destinations

Flying is cheaper in 2024. But not for some destinations

Coroimage | Moment | Getty Images Americans traveling this summer have broadly seen prices fall for airline fares, a welcome trend after last year’s sticker shock. But airfare remains more expensive in 2024 for some regions and destinations, largely for trips abroad, data shows. For example, an average round-trip flight to Tokyo, Japan — one … Read more

Airlines challenge Biden administration fee disclosure rule

Airlines challenge Biden administration fee disclosure rule

Aerial view of United Airlines passenger planes docked in a terminal of Newark Airport in Newark, New Jersey, on May 11, 2024.  Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty Images Major airlines and an industry trade association asked a federal appeals court to toss out a new Department of Transportation rule requiring earlier disclosure of add-on … Read more

Alaska Airlines 2024 forecast tops estimates after loss from Boeing Max grounding

Alaska Airlines 2024 forecast tops estimates after loss from Boeing Max grounding

An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 taxis at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on March 25, 2024 in Seattle, Washington.  Stephen Brashear | Getty Images Alaska Airlines forecast second-quarter and full-year earnings well ahead of estimates on Thursday thanks to strong travel demand, despite a first-quarter loss stemming from a midair blowout of a door plug … Read more