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Why airlines might eventually see the laptop ban as an opportunity

May 19, 2017
They could try to win the loyalty of business customers.
Qatar Airways will lend laptops to business customers.
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United will now give passengers up to $10,000 to give up their seat

Apr 27, 2017
CEO Oscar Munoz talks to us about what the airline did wrong and how it's moving forward.
United announced 10 changes it's making to its overselling and rebooking procedures.
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Boeing to sell up to 60 planes to Iran

Apr 4, 2017
The Trump administration still has to approve the deal.
Boeing said its deal to sell 737 MAX airliners to Iran is worth $6 billion and will create 18,000 jobs.
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Airline executives air their issues over breakfast with Trump

Feb 9, 2017
Issues over a long-running competition are sure to come up.

Airlines operating more and more on automated systems

Jan 30, 2017
Delta Airlines had a system outage over the weekend; this follows another outage in August. Delta won’t say what happened in the last couple of days, so we’re not sure what caused hundreds of cancellations yet. Airlines. of course. use many different systems — and in fact, those systems are becoming more and more automated […]

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Trump's travel ban draws Tehran’s ire and adds tension to Boeing deal

Jan 30, 2017
The multibillion-dollar deal teeters on the back of Obama’s Iran nuclear agreement.

Are we on the verge of supersonic travel again?

Dec 6, 2016
The Concorde may be gone, but the dream lives on.
The XB-1 aircraft sits in the hanger during the Demonstrator official unveiling at Boom Technologies on November 15, 2016 in Englewood, Colorado. 
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