Oneworld has introduced an enhanced digital check-in experience for multi-carrier journeys, allowing passengers to scan passports, receive boarding passes and save them to digital wallets through their preferred airline’s digital channels. The alliance says the supporting technology is available across its member carriers and connects their systems through a shared platform. Further phases are expected to address codeshare check-in and dynamically updated boarding passes, so those functions should be distinguished from the capabilities announced as available now.

American transport policy usually moves slowly enough to ignore for a quarter. Not this autumn. The 2021 infrastructure law expired on 30 September, the FAA wants another $30 billion, a federal rule is pushing truck drivers off the road, and a regulator is testing the biggest rail merger in a generation under rules it has never used. CrossGov.com, a site that covers US government with a federal focus, has published a set of posts that between them map the whole board.

More than two decades after Concorde’s final flight, commercial supersonic travel has a credible successor on a defined timeline, and US policy is finally moving to accommodate it. Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said in April 2026 that the company expects to begin production of its Overture airliner in about two years, a claim precise enough to invite real scrutiny rather than concept-art skepticism. The regulatory unlock. On March 24, 2026, the US House passed the Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act, built around a single principle: if an operator can demonstrate a flight won’t produce a sonic boom audible at ground level, the FAA should permit it — reversing the core logic of the 1973 ban on civil supersonic flight over land that helped confine Concorde to ocean routes and choke its route economics.

Ontario International Airport recorded its fourth consecutive month of passenger growth in March, welcoming 574,819 travelers — a 2.7% year-over-year gain — while commercial air freight tonnage climbed 15.3%, airport officials announced. The headline numbers were driven almost entirely by international traffic, which surged 55.2% to 60,042 passengers in March against the same month last year. Domestic volumes edged down 1.2% to 514,777. Through the first quarter, ONT served 1,546,339 total passengers, up 4.

TAP Air Portugal has signed on to operate out of JFK’s new Terminal 6 when the facility opens its first six gates later this year, joining a roster that includes JetBlue, Air Canada, Lufthansa, SWISS, ANA, Avianca, and a dozen other carriers. The announcement was made jointly by TAP and JFK Millennium Partners (JMP), the private developer behind the terminal. TAP has operated at JFK for over 50 years, currently running daily nonstop service to Lisbon on Airbus A330neo and A321neo aircraft.

The collision over Washington, D.C. still lingers as one of those moments that reshapes policy almost overnight. Sixty-seven lives lost in a dense, complex airspace where military, civilian, and rotary traffic intersect exposed something deeper than a single operational failure. It showed how fragile layered systems can become when proximity, speed, and mixed-use airspace all converge at once. In response, Congressman John Garamendi and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee pushed forward the Airspace Location and Enhanced Risk Transparency Act, better known as the ALERT Act.

On July 19, 2024, a widespread technology outage caused by a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike resulted in significant disruptions across various sectors, notably impacting airlines. Major U.S. carriers, including Delta, American, United, Allegiant, and Spirit Airlines, faced extensive delays and cancellations, leading to chaos at airports. Over the weekend, more than 7,500 flights were canceled and 32,500 flights were delayed. The situation was particularly severe for Delta Air Lines, which continued to cancel a significant number of flights even after other airlines had largely recovered from the disruption.

Boeing has announced an optimistic projection for the aviation industry’s future, forecasting a demand for nearly 44,000 new commercial airplanes by 2043. This growth is driven by the resurgence and surpassing of pre-pandemic air travel levels. As revealed at the Farnborough International Airshow, Boeing’s 2024 Commercial Market Outlook (CMO) anticipates a 3% increase in airplane deliveries over the next two decades. The report underscores that single-aisle airplanes will dominate, accounting for 76% of new deliveries, while nearly half of these will replace older, less fuel-efficient jets, enhancing sustainability.