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Newly filed bipartisan legislation in the House and Senate would aim to reduce financial barriers for aspiring pilots.

Proposed bills address the U.S. pilot shortageHouse and Senate legislation would increase the federal student loan limit for flight training programs.

The Needle at Iao Valley State Monument on Maui. Nonresidents must now make reservations to visit the park.

Maui's Iao Valley now requires reservationsIt's the fourth visitor attraction in the state parks system with such a requirement for nonresidents.

During the second half of 2021, all of the largest 10 U.S. airlines attributed a higher percentage of cancellations to causes under their control than they did in 2019.

Report: When flight cancellations piled up in late 2021, the airlines were mainly at faultAirlines found themselves unprepared for the sudden burst in flying demand as the pandemic waned, said the U.S....

The World Travel & Tourism Council said Wednesday that the travel sector in 2023 will fall just 5% below the $9.5 trillion in GDP contribution to the global economy the sector achieved in 2019, when travel was at its highest.

WTTC: Global tourism sector closes on prepandemic peakThe sector's economic contribution will have recovered by more than 95% this year, and it is expected to surpass its 2019 peak...

FAA acting administrator Billy Nolen to step down this summer

FAA acting administrator Billy Nolen to step down this summerNolen said he will step down once President Joe Biden presents a new nominee for the permanent administrator role.

The U.S. Travel Association said long visa wait times will cut into the travel market share for the U.S.

Long visa wait times persist for key inbound marketsThe wait time for travelers from India has dropped significantly, but it's still well over a year for Mexico and Brazil...

More U.S.-China nonstops? Don't pack your bags yet.

More U.S.-China nonstops? Don't pack your bags yet.Flights between the U.S. and Asia are up dramatically from last summer. But thanks to strict pandemic-era rules, nonstops...

Airlines have agreed to reduce frequencies at Newark Airport this summer.

Airlines are cutting summer schedules at New York-area and D.C. airportsThe moves come after the FAA granted carriers scheduling flexibility in those cities because of a shortage of air traffic...

The Netherlands transport ministry failed to follow required procedures to enact a cut in Schiphol operations, a Dutch court ruled.

Court blocks Amsterdam Schiphol's plan to curb flightsThe ruling follows legal challenges brought forward by KLM, Delta and other carriers as well as by trade groups IATA and...

In the lawsuit filed to block the merger of Spirit with JetBlue, the Justice Department emphasized the importance of keeping the ultralow-cost carrier sector robust.

How valuable is the bare-bones model? The feds give mixed messagesThere's a discrepancy between the Justice Department's support for the model used by ultralow-cost carriers and the...

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