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Australia’s Qantas Airways recently asked some of its executives and managers to volunteer to work as baggage handlers over the next three months to help Qantas alleviate severe staff shortages in its checked baggage department, the BBC reported on Monday after reviewing an official memo from the company.

Two of Ireland’s most senior climate crazy ministers have previously taken high-emission Business class trips instead of opting for greener economy seats, a report has claimed.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated that, despite receiving billions to keep people employed, airlines pushed “a lot of their pilots and experienced crews into early retirement.” Which, while it technically

People traveling for July 4 have reportedly experienced thousands of delayed and cancelled flights, even after hundreds were cancelled last weekend.

John Fetterman, Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor and current candidate for U.S. Senate, called on President Joe Biden’s administration to fine airlines “up to $27,500 per passenger” for canceled flights. 

During a portion of an interview aired on Tuesday’s “NBC Nightly News,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said, “There are going to be challenges” with air travel over the July 4 holiday, and that despite receiving $50 billion in coronavirus relief

Hundreds of U.S. flights were cancelled over the weekend and on Monday, causing some alarm ahead of the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Two French fighter jets were scrambled to intercept an ITA Airways flight from New York’s JFK airport to Rome after both pilots fell asleep, according to a report that emerged Friday about an incident that took place over France on April 30.

United States airlines, which are “still rebuilding flight crews after the COVID-19 pandemic travel slowdown,” canceled more than 2,500 flights over the Memorial Day weekend.

Britain froze assets of three Russian airlines, preventing them from selling landing slots at UK airports that are worth up to £50 million.

A Tibet Airlines jet caught fire moments before it was scheduled to lift off on Thursday at an airport in China’s Chongqing city, causing injury to more than 40 passengers as they evacuated the aircraft, Xinhua News Agency reported.

A majority of Americans say ending the federal mask mandate is a good decision, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Friday found.

Some lunatic MSNBC doctor wants everyone to carry around masks and badger others to wear them. This Dr. Patel also appears to advise mask bullies to use lies about elderly mothers and cancerous children as emotional blackmail.

Uber is the first ride-sharing service to announce it is lifting its coronavirus mask mandate for drivers and passengers after a federal judge in Florida struck down the order the Joe Biden administration put it into affect in the first days of his presidency, as Breitbart News reported.

It comes as no surprise that President Joe Biden continues to mandate wearing “ineffective masks on planes,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a fierce critic of the administration’s handling of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, said on Wednesday.

The airline industry is continuing to call for the end of the federal mask mandate, making it clear that “we need to remove these mandates” as the federal health officials extend it yet again.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Serbia is seeking explanations from NATO on why its jets have allegedly shadowed Serbian passenger planes flying back from Russia.

Upwards of 3,500 U.S. flights were scrapped over the weekend and thousands more delayed just as travel rebounds from the coronavirus pandemic. Weather, staff availability, airspace congestion, and “technology issues” were just some of the reasons airlines gave for the disruptions as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg remained silent on the matter.

Thousands of Southwest flight attendants are demanding the end of the federal mask mandate for air travel as airline leaders across the country do the same.

U.S. airlines are getting restless and putting pressure on the Biden administration to lift the federal mask mandate for air travel, concluding that it makes “no sense” as people are “allowed to congregate in crowded restaurants, schools and at sporting events without masks.”

The terrible plane crash in China’s southern Guangxi region continued as a headline news item in Chinese state media on Tuesday – but after 24 hours, no significant details about the incident have been revealed to the public. China’s aviation regulator cautioned the public that it might take years for the investigation to be completed, and little news should be expected until then. 

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – A flight from Belgrade to Moscow was reverted and evacuated following a bomb alert, Serbian police said Friday.

A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered further review of  United Airlines’ coronavirus vaccine mandate.

The president of the airline Emirates says concerns over the 5G rollout and lack of preparation is “one of the most delinquent, utterly irresponsible” situations he has seen in his career.

CEOs of the nation’s largest airlines warned in a letter that there could be “catastrophic disruption” to flights when 5G is set to deploy on Wednesday.

United Airlines is allegedly allowing potentially unvaccinated London-based flight attendants to work alongside vaccinated American staff as it grapples with staffing shortages, cofounder of Airline Employees 4 Health Freedom Captain Sherry Walker exclusively told Breitbart News on Thursday.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on Sunday saw the busiest day of air travel across the United States since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, screening 2,451,300 people at airports across the country, according to the department’s Traveler Throughput numbers.

The EU is set to blacklist firms involved with transporting migrants to Belarus for the purpose of destabilising the bloc.

Biden is letting stand EPA airline emissions rules that took effect under Trump but only because he wants to comply with U.N. regulations.

Belarusian state-owned airline Belavia has announced it will no longer accept Iraqi, Syrian, or Yemeni nationals aboard flights to Belarus after the European Union threatened the airline with sanctions.

A flight attendant who was coerced into getting a coronavirus vaccine spoke at Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) press conference on Monday and told her story, explaining her employer made her “choose between my God and my job.” Out of fear, she got the jab, describing it as the “single worst decision” of her life.

The United States is finally reopening to British travellers after almost two years of heavy restrictions — but for the most part they must be double-vaccinated.

White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci stated Wednesday that officials “don’t really see any true basis” for concerns from airline pilots about receiving the coronavirus vaccine.

United Airlines is prohibited from placing employees with religious and medical exemptions on unpaid leave until October 26.

Google is pushing the climate change agenda by introducing an online tool to allow people to estimate their “carbon footprint” on flights.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is doubling down after it issued a “no tolerance” rule in January targeting “unruly” airline passengers, a phenomenon associated with the strict coronavirus regulations for fliers, including continually wearing a mask while at airports and on planes.