15 travel stories from the last 24 hours — here’s what’s moving:
Boeing Has Known About This Landing Bug for Two Years
The FAA has opened an investigation into a 737 MAX flight management computer fault that can drop the aircraft’s vertical navigation during an aborted landing.
School Holidays Started and So Did the Screener Walkout
Around 400 security screeners at Sydney Airport staged a three-hour stoppage on Monday, timed to the first day of the New South Wales school holidays.
Your Italian Ferry Has a Reason Not to Sail Today
Italy’s port sector is under a 24-hour national strike on 28 September, with action reported at Genoa, Civitavecchia and Gioia Tauro.
Swiss Stopped Charging for Wi-Fi on Exactly One Plane
Swiss switched on free Starlink internet for the first time on 28 September, aboard a single Airbus A320neo flying Zurich to Thessaloniki.
Kenya Has Never Had a Premium Economy Seat Until Now
Emirates puts an A350 on one of its three daily Dubai-Nairobi flights from 25 October, bringing premium economy to the Kenyan market for the first time.
Eleven of Frontier’s Fifteen Detroit Routes Used to Be Spirit’s
Frontier adds Detroit to LaGuardia on 20 November, and the shape of its Detroit map now traces almost exactly where Spirit used to fly.
Saudi Arabia Started an Airline in Its Third City
An Air Arabia-led consortium has flown the first service of a new Saudi low-cost carrier based at Dammam, a year after winning the licence.
Jeddah Is Moving Its Airlines One Day at a Time
King Abdulaziz International Airport has begun a staggered handover to Terminal 4, adding capacity for 15 million passengers a year one carrier at a time.
Australia and Indonesia Reopened a Deal Frozen Since 2011
An updated bilateral adds 5,000 weekly seats each way and opens Indonesian destinations well beyond Bali and Jakarta to Australian carriers.
The World’s Longest Flight Finally Has a Month
Qantas has confirmed that nonstop Sydney to London flights begin in October 2027, with seats going on sale the previous February.
Newark Built a Terminal for 14 Million and Got 20
Three years after opening, Newark’s Terminal A is so far past its design capacity that the Port Authority has authorised USD 110 million to start adding eight gates.
Heathrow’s Third Runway Just Lost Four More Years
Heathrow has told the UK government that the 2035 target for its third runway is not achievable, pushing the GBP 49 billion expansion out to 2039.
One Baltic Capital Cut Its Fees and Kept Its Flights
Ryanair is adding 40,000 winter seats at Riga while cutting capacity in Estonia and Lithuania by a quarter, and it is being unusually blunt about why.
Germany Let Emirates Into Berlin and Condor Left the Room
Condor is pulling its daily Dubai flights from Berlin and Stuttgart for the winter season, weeks after Berlin granted Emirates the traffic rights it had been seeking for more than two decades.
Somebody Has Paid Two Million Dollars to Park This Plane
An Aeroflot A321 has sat at Geneva since February 2022, accruing around 30,000 Swiss francs a month in parking fees while the meals in its galley rot where they were left.
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