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Airlines know that fast turnarounds mean profits – Southwest advertised ten-minute turns back in 1982. While there have been various claims about turnaround times, there has been a shortage of data to help determine just how important this factor is to airlines’...

The United States was once the global leader in aviation, enabled by a forward thinking FAA.  Today, that agency is bogged in politics and red tape, resulting in decision-making processes that would result in a description of incompetence and the phrase “you’re fired”...

Gogo announced it has partnered with aerospace software specialist PACE to connect PACEs' Pacelab Flight Profile Optimizer – a leading flight optimization application. Pacelab Flight Profile Optimizer is a decision support tool developed for electronic flight bags...

Airline fuel surcharges have begun to largely disappear.  Carriers have eliminated them as oil prices remain low. But there are a few airlines that are hanging on to fuel surcharges, and some, like Qantas, that built surcharges into their base fares and haven’t...