China's government is instructing travel agencies in the country to cut the number of group tours to Japan as the two countries' dispute following Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks about Taiwan continues to fester. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/27/japan/china-curbs-group-tours-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #china #chinajapanrelations #taiwan #sanaetakaichi #tourism #airlines #flights #taiwan
The Japan Transport Safety Board has conducted a simulation experiment as part of its investigation into a fatal aircraft collision accident that occurred on a runway at Tokyo's Haneda Airport last year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/25/japan/jal-haneda-collision-interim-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #airlines #jal #airaccidents #hanedaairport
One year on from South Korea's deadliest plane crash, relatives of the victims harbor deep mistrust over how the investigation has been handled. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/23/asia-pacific/south-korea-jeju-air-flight-2216/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #southkorea #airlines #airlineaccidents
The standoff between China and Japan threatens to exacerbate a seasonally weak period for Chinese airlines and make it harder for them to post their first annual profits in six years. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/23/companies/china-airlines-profit-return-dim/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #china #chinajapanrelations #sanaetakaichi #taiwan #airlines
ANA and Japan’s space agency are accelerating efforts to use sensors mounted on commercial jets to improve the monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/17/japan/passenger-jets-track-climate-change/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ana #airlines #jaxa #space #climatechange #emissions #aviation
A U.S. travel association and a top Democrat are bristling at President Donald Trump's plan to require many foreign visitors using the visa waiver program to provide social media handles used over the past five years. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/12/world/us-social-media-reaction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #airlines #tourism #immigration #privacy #personalinformation #tech #humanrights
This week, Airbus got a brutal reminder that even the world’s most-delivered jet — the A320 — isn’t immune to shocks as disparate as solar flares and flawed metal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/06/companies/airbus-icarus-bug/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #airlines #airbus #tourism
Commercial airline pilots often conceal mental health conditions for fear that disclosing therapy or medication, or even just seeking help, could mean having their license pulled. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/04/world/society/airline-pilots-mental-health/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #airlines #aviation #mentalhealth #depression
Global airlines scrambled to fix a software glitch on Airbus A320 jets, as a partial recall by the company halted hundreds of flights in Asia and Europe and threatened U.S. travel over the busiest weekend of the year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/30/companies/global-airlines-airbus-a320/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #airbus #airlines #tourism
Europe's Airbus said Friday it was ordering immediate repairs to 6,000 of its widely used A320 family of jets in a sweeping recall affecting more than half the global fleet, sparking disruption worldwide. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/29/companies/airbus-a320-recall-disruption/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #airlines #tourism #airbus
Luke Drury
boosted
“Taxing airline fuel is not the only answer to encouraging more people to choose low-carbon travel, but it’s a start.
It’s ludicrous that the most environmentally damaging form of transport doesn’t pay fuel tax”
#Climate #Energy #Taxation #FossilFuels #Transport #Airlines #Aviation
The Chinese government has instructed the country’s airlines to reduce the number of flights to Japan through March 2026, signaling Beijing is braced for a protracted spat between the two nations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/25/japan/china-flight-cuts-extension/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #china #chinajapanrelations #taiwan #sanaetakaichi #airlines #aviation #tourism
“Taxing airline fuel is not the only answer to encouraging more people to choose low-carbon travel, but it’s a start.
It’s ludicrous that the most environmentally damaging form of transport doesn’t pay fuel tax”
#Climate #Energy #Taxation #FossilFuels #Transport #Airlines #Aviation
Plans to extend the runway at Sapporo’s Okadama Airport are moving forward to boost commercial flight capacity, attract more business jets and facilitate medevac flights at the city’s smaller airport. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/17/japan/okadama-airport-extension/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #okadamaairport #hokkaido #sapporo #airports #airlines #tourism #mlit
Japan Airlines has sought proposals from manufacturers for up to 70 regional and turboprop aircraft to replace its domestic fleet, according to people familiar with the matter. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/14/companies/jal-regional-fleet-overhaul/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #jal #airlines
U.S. airlines are kicking off an unprecedented effort to shake off the travel chaos caused by the government shutdown and reboot their networks in time for the busy Thanksgiving holiday travel period. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/14/companies/us-shutdown-airlines-bounce-back/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #us #democrats #republicans #tourism #airlines
Donald Trump demanded air traffic controllers return to work after another day of flight cancellations, which the administration ordered to manage staff shortages during the government shutdown. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/11/world/politics/trump-air-traffic-flight-cancellations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #republicans #airlines #airports #travel
Airlines canceled more than 2,200 U.S. flights on Sunday, as air traffic control staffing shortages surge during the federal shutdown. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/10/world/politics/us-air-traffic-controller-shutdown/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #republicans #travel #airlines #airports
Major airlines braced for a third day of government-mandated flight cuts Sunday after rising air traffic control staffing shortages snarled thousands of flights on Saturday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/09/world/politics/us-flight-cuts-enter-third-day/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #travel #airlines #airports #us #donaldtrump #democrats #republicans #faa