Linda Blachly

Feb 8, 2024 | aviationweek.com | Linda Blachly

This week’s top air transport stories include an NTSB report suggesting that the missing bolts had been removed on the Boeing factory floor and did not break off during the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 Jan. 5 flight, causing the exit door plug to rip off, and the European Court of Justice annulled the state aid approval awarded to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to help it through the pandemic.

Feb 6, 2024 | aviationweek.com | Linda Blachly

Dubai-based flydubai has a partnership with PressReader to provide passengers with complimentary access to a wide range of international publications onboard 70% of its Boeing 737 fleet. This comes as part of flydubai’s growing partnership with PressReader where passengers visiting the flydubai Business Lounge at Dubai International (DXB) can have complimentary access to PressReader’s wide range of content.

Feb 1, 2024 | aviationweek.com | Linda Blachly

This week’s top air transport stories include Japan’s regulatory approval of a proposed merger between Korean Air and Asiana, and airlines beginning to return Boeing 737-9s to service following grounding for inspections following the Jan. 5 incident involving the inflight loss of a door plug on an Alaska Airlines flight. Airlines are returning Boeing 737-9s to service, following a near month-long grounding prompted by the Jan. 5 inflight loss of an exit door plug on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282.

Jan 26, 2024 | aviationweek.com | Linda Blachly

Artworks are at strategic locations around T2 and serve as beacons in a traveler’s journey, allowing passengers to pause, reflect and enjoy. Pictured: Photography on backlit glass by Ganesh Shankar. “After a few trips to the forest, I zeroed in on making an image of a bamboo forest. It was an amazing feeling to walk under the canopy of bamboo trees and I wanted passengers travelling through BLR Airport to enjoy the peace and serenity I experienced,” says photographer Ganesh H. Shankar.

Jan 25, 2024 | aviationweek.com | Linda Blachly

Dominating this week’s top air transport stories include FAA halting Boeing’s planned production increase of the MAX and United Airlines removing the MAX 10 from its internal plans as investigations continue on the inflight loss of an exit door plug on an Alaska Airlines 737-9 on Jan. 5. FAA has taken the extraordinary step of denying Boeing permission to continue with its planned production increase of the MAX.