The transport ministry will investigate what it describes as a 'serious incident' after a passenger plane operated by Japan's All Nippon Airways landed on a runway in Hokkaido where a work vehicle was operating. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/22/japan/ana-serious-incident/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #mlit #hokkaido #ana #airlines
As Air Canada flight attendants strike over wages and unpaid work, the company and union remain far apart and the path forward is unclear. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/19/companies/air-canada-ceo-union-pay-probe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #aircanada #airlines #union
Qantas Airways was ordered to pay $59 million for illegally sacking almost 2,000 ground workers during the pandemic, in a court judgment that included sharp criticism of the airline’s culture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/18/companies/qantas-fined-firing-pandemic/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #qantas #airlines #australia#covid19
Air Canada's striking flight attendants on Sunday refused a government-backed labor board's order to return to work, forcing the airline to delay restarting its operations and leaving its passengers in limbo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/18/companies/strike-air-canada-back-to-work-order/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #aircanada #unions #canada #airlines
The Canadian government on Saturday moved to end a strike by Air Canada's cabin crews and require binding arbitration to break their contract impasse. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/17/canada-end-air-canada-strike/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #canada #airlines #unions #strikes #aircanada
Air Canada and its unionized flight attendants remained at odds on Friday, despite government pleas for both sides to return to bargaining to avert a strike that would upend travel for tens of thousands of passengers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/15/air-canada-deadlock/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #unions #jobs #aviation #airlines #aircanada #canada
For reasons lost in the mists of time, TWA (the long-since defunct Trans World Airlines, acquired by American Airlines in 2001) used to hand out miniature staplers with a box of staples, too.
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Japan experienced one of its worst plane crashes 40 years ago, and controversial theories about what “really caused” the crash continue to swirl. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/12/japan/history/jal-crash-sdf/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #jal #toshiyaokabe #gunma #selfdefenseforces #airlines
Those who died in the Aug. 12, 1985, crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 were remembered Tuesday on the mountainous accident site in Gunma Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/12/japan/jal-crash-memorial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #airlines #jal #aviation #mountosutaka #gunma
The airline industry's plans to go green before regulators start penalizing them are little more than a pipe dream. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/12/energy/airline-industry-clean-jet-fuel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #aviation #airlines #oil #biofuel
Machiko Taniguchi, who lost her husband in the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet, spoke directly to young JAL employees involved in flight safety in her first such opportunity since the tragedy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/11/japan/widow-40-years-jal-flight-safety/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #airlines #jal #aviation #mountosutaka #gunma #airaccidents #flightjal123
All Nippon Airways and California-based Joby Aviation said they will establish a joint venture with a view to deploy five-seater "air taxis" in Japan from 2027. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/08/companies/electric-air-taxis-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #ana #airlines #taxis #helicopters#jobyaviation
The Airbus A380 superjumbo, which enjoyed an unexpected resurgence when global travel rebounded after the pandemic, is becoming an increasingly expensive headache for airlines. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/29/companies/biggest-passenger-planes-breaking/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #airbus #aviation #airlines #boeing #a380
A provisional deal between the United States and European Union to exempt aircraft from tariffs avoids a potential threat to jet production and deliveries, and follows uncharacteristic unity among plane-making rivals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/29/markets/us-eu-aerospace-tariff-trade/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #aviation #airlines #eu #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs
U.S. airlines' strategy of doubling down on high-end travel after the COVID-19 pandemic to drive up profits and reduce their vulnerability to economic swings is paying off. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/21/us-airlines-premium-travel-slump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #airlines #luxurygoods #travel #delta #united
A cockpit voice recording of doomed Air India Flight 171 indicates that it was the younger co-pilot who asked his more experienced colleague why he turned off the plane’s fuel-supply switches, sources have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/17/asia-pacific/society/air-india-captain-fuel-switches/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #airindia #india #airlines
Last month's deadly Air India crash and a recently released Australian report on the midair breakup of a helicopter in 2023 have renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over use of cockpit video cameras. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/world/society/air-india-cockpit-video-recorders/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #airindia #airlines #aviation #airaccidents #india
India ordered its airlines to examine fuel switches on several Boeing models, while South Korea said it would order a similar measure, as scrutiny intensifies of fuel switch locks after a deadly Air India crash. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/15/airlines-boeing-fuel-switches-air-india/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #boeing #airlines #aviation #airindia #airaccidents #india #southkorea
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing have privately issued notifications that the fuel switch locks on Boeing planes are safe. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/14/world/air-india-probe-us-faa-boeing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #airindia #us #faa #boeing #aviation #airlines #airaccidents
A preliminary report into the deadly crash of an Air India jetliner in June is expected to be released by Friday, with the probe said to have narrowed its focus to the movement of the plane's fuel control switches. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/09/companies/air-india-jet-fuel-crash-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #airindia #airlines #airaccidents #boeing