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Jet fuel shortages might hurt your summer travel plans but could bring advancement to the aviation industry

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By Gabriel Leigh Verified
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Air travel is on course for a rocky summer. In recent weeks, Lufthansa Group axed 20,000 flights from its summer schedule, announced the retirement of its most gas-guzzling aircrafts, grounded an entire subsidiary airline and slashed spending budgets. The company cited the Iran conflict, rising jet fuel costs and labour disputes for the cuts. The question is whether this is a brief change or an acceleration towards alternatives for the sector. Few things sharpen the focus of executives like war.
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US-Venezuela relations warm as American Airlines launches Caracas service from Miami

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By Gabriel Leigh Verified
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American Airlines (AA) resumed service to Caracas yesterday for the first time in more than seven years. It’s a pivotal moment for AA, which long dominated routes to the country and was once a busy market for the airline. At its peak, the airline served Venezuela out of Miami, Dallas, New York and even San Juan, Puerto Rico. This time things look very different, at least for now. The company is testing the waters with a daily 76-seat Embraer flight from Miami, operated by subsidiary Envoy Air.
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Rough skies ahead: The race to find solutions for severe in-flight turbulence

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By Gabriel Leigh Verified
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We have all experienced a few unpleasant moments mid-flight, when the seatbelt lights are turned back on and the bags in the overhead compartments start to jostle. Far rarer are cases in which turbulence causes a plane to plummet dozens of metres, as one Singapore Airlines flight did in 2024. But a recent study suggests that severe turbulence of this kind has significantly increased over the past four decades.
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